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Okay- this does not have to do with home renovation, but a hammer is involved. I heard a ruckus on the front porch and I know that the raccoons have been having some late night parties on our porch so I went to look out the window. I saw a couple of raccoons
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I don’t really want to know how many hours we put into this ceiling. I did a back-of-the-envelope calculation and stopped totaling at 50 hours. It was mostly fun, but I'm glad this project is done. Or, just about done. We came up 2 boards short: Next
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So our plan was to finish sanding and then prime the beadboard and paint it white. Once Nick had finished cleaning it up he thought it wouldn't be that difficult to clean it up enough so we could varnish it instead of painting. Boy was that a great idea.
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Nick's back to working on the bead board. It's been off the ceiling of the front porch for over a year, but now that the radiant floor tubing, lighting and insulation are done, we are ready to have it installed. I hear the hand sander now, so that means
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Guess what (or more succinctly, ‘who’) has been keeping us busy? Atticus. He’s a full-time job. Diapers, cradling, feeding, entertaining. And, to my chagrin, he’s not much of a helper with the house projects still. At 3 weeks old, you’d think he could
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