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Wednesday, May 15, 2013 12:30 AM

Painted Doors

For the last couple weeks, I’ve been painting doors. The closet doors for the nursery were stored up in the rafters of the garage when we bought the house and they were all scratched up. The door to the nursery had a bunch of screw holes in the back of...
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Wednesday, May 08, 2013 12:30 AM

Garden: Take 2

When we started getting some warm weather at the beginning of April, I jumped the gun and tried to start the garden. A tomato plant and two strawberry plants which I put under a homemade hoop house and some volunteer cilantro and rosemary plants from...
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Tuesday, May 07, 2013 12:30 AM

Tulips

Last year, Mom and Dad were out here during the tulip festival so we headed up that way. I purchased a few tulips in a pot for Tyla who wasn’t able to come along with us. When I purchased them, I asked if they could be replanted. She said there wasn’t...
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Friday, May 03, 2013 12:30 AM

LED Light Bulbs

Shopping for CFL or LED bulbs instead of incandescent light bulbs can be confusing. Do you want bright white, warm white, or one of the other white colors? Forget the names. There’s a more precise way to know what you’re getting and it’s...
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Wednesday, April 24, 2013 12:30 AM

Gun Safe

With a munchkin arriving soon, I figured it would be a good idea to have the guns behind some kind of a lock. I don’t have anything special enough to worry about theft, so I went with a fairly inexpensive cabinet from Stack-On . Cabelas had it on sale...
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Friday, April 19, 2013 12:30 AM

Squeaky Floors

The room we picked for the nursery seemed perfect except that the floor had a HUGE squeak in it. It was so loud that Tyla walked in there one night and the squeak woke me out of a deep sleep. I want our baby to be able to sleep through anything, but that...
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Thursday, April 18, 2013 12:30 AM

Dryer Vents

When we lived at the condo, the association scheduled dryer vent cleaning every two or three years. Our current house was built in 1990, and after seeing how some other maintenance was done, I wondered if they’d ever taken care of the dryer vents...
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Monday, April 08, 2013 12:30 AM

Changing A Lock

When I bought the condo, I wanted to change the locks so I called a locksmith and paid him something like $100 to change a couple locks. Since then I’ve learned that this is a super easy project to do on your own. Remove the lock from your door...
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Monday, April 01, 2013 12:30 AM

Home Improvement Projects

I’ve had this pie chart floating around in my head for a year and finally got around to making it. Does it look accurate for your own projects?
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Wednesday, March 06, 2013 12:30 AM

Nursery Paint

The room we’ve picked for the baby took it’s first big step towards that goal. Tim and Chelsea stopped by to help put new paint on the walls. Previously it was a couple shades of yellow (like almost every single room in the rest of the house when we bought...
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Wednesday, February 13, 2013 12:30 AM

Master Bathroom Remodel

When I wrote the “before” post for our bathroom remodel, I said I’d have finished pictures in a couple weeks. That was being very generous in case there were mistakes that I found to have them clean up, etc. I’m happy to report...
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Friday, February 08, 2013 12:30 AM

Bathroom Remodel: Before

When Tyla and I walked through this house in the fall of 2011, we loved a lot of things about it, but the master bathroom was not one of them. It was almost a deal breaker. In the end we bought the house with a plan to save our pennies for a remodel as...
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Friday, February 01, 2013 12:30 AM

A Tale Of Tile

We’re a couple weeks away from having our master bathroom remodel finished. I’ll do a full write up on that with lots of pictures when it’s finished, but I wanted to share one small slice of the project with you now. Going into this project, one of the...
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Friday, December 07, 2012 12:30 AM

Charlie Brown Tree

I’ve always dreamed of having my own Christmas light display. It would cost too much to do the whole house with LED lights right now, but I got a small start by wrapping the little tree in the front yard. With LED lights, you can chose from the very cool...
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Friday, September 21, 2012 12:30 AM

100w Bulb Phase Out

Sometimes not paying attention to the news catches me by surprise. For example, a trip to Home Depot to buy a replacement 100w incandescent bulb left me confused. They didn’t have any 100w bulbs! I mentioned it at dinner to Don and he said we had...
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