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Tag Archives: Design

Tile samplin

October 7, 2009by madisonsquare 1 Comment

New 2″ Hex tiles from Daltile in Biscuit, the two center ones are really old they are the ones we found while demo-ing… Testing out a few colors for floor […]

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Thinking About Glass…

February 16, 2012by madisonsquare 6 Comments

Soon enough we will have a finished living room and since generally speaking windows are nicer than plywooded openings we need to figure out what to do with this one. […]

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The Truth (Maybe) on Refinishing Radiators

November 13, 2009by madisonsquare Leave a comment

So there we were, running pex and looking at radiator valves, when suddenly we thought- oh! we should paint these radiators while they are disconnected and not heating our house!  […]

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The Proposed

August 12, 2010by madisonsquare Leave a comment

Rob has been diligently and thoroughly documenting the bathroom reno the past three nights, so although I’ve posted the drawings before, here they are in all of their full color […]

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Testing Out Porch Light Locations

October 11, 2009by madisonsquare 1 Comment

Rob holding up the porch light! We decided to put it on the same side as the locks… only one of the 7 million decisions we have to make in […]

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Stone Decisions (Well, Most Of Them)

January 31, 2010by madisonsquare Leave a comment

Kitchen- Blue Laborodita. It’s dark but not solid black, and has a bit of blue of the glass tile. So here you see the cabinet doors, grey porcelain floor tile […]

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