conservatories… and then some.

I was chatting with a reader today and admitted that I was perhaps born in the wrong country (although after thinking about it, my love for cheeseburgers and fried chicken leads me to believe I’m in exactly the right place!). I loooove the minimalist consumerism that I see on an international level and am super

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basement, oh basement.

OK so yesterday I sent out a call for fun theater seating ideas in the basement, and boy, did you guys deliver! This is going to be FUN. You’re a pretty creative bunch, aren’t you? I see that. So… here’s what I’m thinking, based partly on your suggestions, and party on my own hair-brained ideas.

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let’s talk about mold, baby…

Forgive me, as these renovation posts are far from categorized chronologically, as we’ve been working on the home for four months before releasing it to you lovely folks. On the bright side, that means I know how the story ends (sorta). Down side? I can’t remember which steps we took first to turn this fixer-upper

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let’s go hazmat.

I’ll be totally honest: I had no idea what a Hazmat suit was before embarking on this house project, but eh — I’m teachable. When we first purchased our home, we had found that the previous owners bolted three years prior, leaving the house abandoned, vacant — and with a leak. Needless to say, there

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whew! deep breath…

… I should start off by saying that when Husband and I decided to tackle a fixer-upper, we weren’t prepared for a total gut renovation (TGR, if you’re fancy). In my mind, a fixer-upper meant just that: fixing up. In Husband’s mind, it meant the opposite: tearing down. Not that I blame him, of course.

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