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After reading the featrued story on House Blogs by Jeanne "Built-In... Form and Function" , I began thinking about what built-ins we have done and which are my favorite. (Or favorite so far, as we've got a lot of house left that we haven't re-furbished.)
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A few weeks ago I stopped by Second Use , one of our favorite salvage yards in Seattle. They had a lot of slate from two old Seattle High Schools that are being renovated. Being a teacher, I immediately wanted to pick out the biggest and nicest piece
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I haven't made any progress towards varnishing the baking center cabinets, unless you count cleaning the kitchen. But Nick's been working on the breakfast nook. He had me sit down to see if I liked the angle of the bench & it seemed perfect. I'll
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When I bought our house it had a large foyer but no closet for hanging coats. The previous owners had installed a couple of generic hooks, but that was it. For me, one of the desirable features of our first-floor remodel was a coat closet, and I worked
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Last week Nick painted the livingroom and dining room. We chose a very pale cream color that has a hint of yellow to it and we're really happy with how it turned out. It looks good with all the fir. That allowed him to finally install the mantel that
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It's much faster hiring someone to come in and do the mudding and taping for the drywall- especially with a baby. We came home from our trip to Iowa to find the walls taped, mudded and primed. It is so nice to look at clean, smooth walls. I especially
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So we went to Rejuve and they had quite a bit of stuff on sale. They even had the doorbell I liked on sale, but we decided we were going to look for one that has a different twist/knob mechanism. Then we found the Sears, Roebuck Home Builder's Catalog:
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