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Sunday Odds & Ends

December 3, 2012by madisonsquare 3 Comments

We took advantage of today’s unseasonably warm weather to check off a few items off of our to do list… Kelly put another coat of poly on the back steps. […]

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December Doings

December 1, 2012by madisonsquare 1 Comment

New parking permit.. must be December 1st! Before it gets too cold, Rob applied another coat of protective poly on our back steps: I spent some time putting away fall […]

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Stucco Time

November 12, 2012by madisonsquare Leave a comment

It’s time to make our two new openings presentable on the outside. To start we tacked expanded wire mesh in the areas to get stucco, for the stucco to stick […]

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Making Holes in Our House

November 11, 2012by madisonsquare Leave a comment

Time to make a hole in the exterior wall for our kitchen exhaust! To get started we drilled holes through the two wythes of brick. This helped to take the […]

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Reopening the Past

November 5, 2012by madisonsquare 3 Comments

Like so many of the windows in our house when we bought it, the alley side basement windows were both covered over. So this weekend we tackled the shop side […]

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The Install Party for Our Stained Glass Window

August 15, 2012by madisonsquare 2 Comments

So we are finally getting around to posting the exciting details of our stained glass window installation… As you may remember from the previous posts the day started with removing […]

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