Making Holes in Our House
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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Cleaning & Prepping the Basement
When we cleaned out our former wood shop that was in the Dining Room (for the final L&I inspection), everything got shoved into the basement and it is still a […]
Reopening the Past
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 […]
Restoring the Old Trim…
We must go backwards to go forward… So tonight I removed the old trim in the living room to get ready for the new oak trim. At some point the […]
Mantle Prep Wrap Up
Tonight we cleaned up the mess at the fireplace, and filled the slight gap btw the old plaster wall and masonry firebox with mortar… If we install a gas insert […]
Fireplace Mantel – Demo!
There’s a few projects left on our stone installers agenda… And since they’re coming on Tuesday it’s definitely time to prep! One of the projects is a new travertine mantel […]
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