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Monthly Archives: January 2013

Stealth Project

January 4, 2013by madisonsquare Leave a comment

Happy New Year! To celebrate 2013 we’re blogging about a stealth mini project circa August 2012… Sometimes project ideas happen by accident. This one happened when we were spray painting […]

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2012: Half a Year in Review, Part I

January 7, 2013by madisonsquare 1 Comment

2012 was officially a busy year: I’m exhausted just perusing our posts from January thru June.  The first half of the year was a really long build up to two […]

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2012: Half a Year in Review, Part II

January 11, 2013by madisonsquare 1 Comment

Sure, the first half of 2012 was busy, but the second half was worth it just for these two photos… July: We installed our beautiful new stained glass window in […]

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Back on Track … Slowly

January 19, 2013by madisonsquare Leave a comment

After the holidays it is always hard to get back on track with house projects in the new year… So we are taking baby steps. Remember that wall we framed […]

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Now We Are Rolling

January 20, 2013by madisonsquare 2 Comments

Time to build our sliding door for the basement. We ripped down plywood to be the nailing rails, squared them to each other, and clamped them to a table to […]

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The Art Of The Powder Room

January 26, 2013by madisonsquare Leave a comment

Our powder room, like many rooms, still needed a few finishing touches… art, antiques and plants. The art: currently this cool old artifact given to us by the previous owner […]

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