Category: house
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The House, she has been painted
You know, for a house blog, we’ve done a poor job of chronicling our house painting adventure. For the last 4 years we’ve been working on the inside of the house, and ignoring the outside. Primarily because, in our neighborhood, it seemed wise to not shine too brightly. But also, we needed to do our…
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The bathroom, she is tiled
I think that in all the goings on here with lawnmowing and dario fo plays and what not, I may have forgotten to mention the most important news of all– our master bath is tiled! We started on the master bath in August, and it didn’t get finished until October, but my god– all the…
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Throwing out the towels
Because I have the best boyfriend ever, we now have a new armoire in the unfinished master bath in which we can keep all of our towels. So my project this morning was to move all of our towels from our old armoire (in the bedroom) to the new one. (Have you guessed by now…
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An alarming incident…and a thermostatic one also.
We had a disturbing alarm incident, where it turned out that the low battery signal from our third floor smoke detector may have been a faulty smoke detector, as replacing the batteries did not assuage the situation. We had ADT come out and replace the smoke detector. (Of course, everything worked properly when he was…
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Liking the lights
On nights like tonight, when I come home and Adam is not home (he’s in Providence more and more, preparing for Bright Night, of course), I realize how thankful I am for our lights. It’s something one might really take for granted – having the right lights, and the right light switches, throughout the house.…
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LIP
LIP I’ve been thinking about this post for a long time and trying to figure out how to write it. And then my sister was here last weekend and expressed, out loud, some of the thoughts I’ve been having that I felt I couldn’t possibly share with anyone. And my sister is pretty PC, and…
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Lock story #2: Not locked out… Not at all.
Here’s kind of the opposite tale of woe with regards to a door story, and equally scary. So I was in Providence for two days doing work on my upcoming New year’s Eve Festival, as I am wont to be at this time of year, and Stephanie was in the city, doing her job, as…
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Locked out…. (a very expensive lesson)
So we did something that was stupid stupid stupid… and cost us a pretty penny to boot (and we’re still not done.)Saturday we spent most of a beautiful day outside painting shelves. I have a set of four book cases from the bookstore days. We painted three of them a long time ago with the…
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The split queen box
That’s what we now have on our third floor. It’s not some arcane chess or poker move – it’s what one needs if one has a tiny, narrow stairway and yet wants a queen bed up said stairway. Like us. When we first moved into the house we moved my queen bed, with my beautiful…
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Will the merry go round ever stop?
The last few days have been pretty crazy– We’ve had a lot of people here in the house today. Although things are getting done– it’s slow and frustrating, and a little bizarre. Here’s a little preview– TODAY: We started off by moving everything we own into the other third floor bedroom so that the electricians…
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list of stressful items
This week’s highlights: cabinets, carpeting, floors, heating oil, snow. Plus a funeral. The last few days have been especially stressful, as we rushed out of town on Saturday to attend my stepgrandfather’s funeral leaving a bunch of things undone. Prior to jumping on a plane (which we had to do Saturday early to avoid the…