Front Load Washers and how marriage works!

We did it!  We *finally* replaced our $80 Craigslist safety hazard washer and dryer with two front load Kenmore models from Sears!  Can I hear a giant WHOOP WHOOP!?!  Now we can throw things in the dryer and walk out the door without worrying about the dryer scorching our whites and/or burning down the house.  [...]

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Cork floor Redux

I’ve missed writing, I’ve missed all of my readers, and I’ve missed working on my house this summer!  Where have we been?!?  Can you say “crazy is the new normal”?  Let’s just say that we’ve been busy spending time and money on everything BUT the house and so there isn’t much to report.  And to give you [...]

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Airing our dirty Laundry: Chapter 5 THE BIG REVEAL

These are my two favorite words in all of renovation-dom: IT’S DONE!!!  As in finito, over and out, roger, over!  That’s Clarence Over!  BASTA!  DONE!  FIN!  THE END!  THAT’S ALL SHE WROTE….you get the picture.  I should just remind you that our upstairs laundry room and adjacent hallway (which I walk through *every*single*morning*afternoon*and*night*) has been [...]

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Airing our Dirty Laundry: Chapter 4, Pop the Cork!

Your patience will be rewarded, grasshopper.  You may have noticed that we have been MIA on the blog lately.  Call it a combination of being busy, celebrating a wedding anniversary (yes, ours!  Three years!), and just needing to avoid our house due to crazy Polyurethane fumes….let’s just say it’s been nuts!  Buuuuuuuuut….. The floors are [...]

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Airing our dirty Laundry: A little teaser post…

We’re back with another installment of the Laundry makeover series!  But this is just a teaser to let you know that we are *finally* onto installing the cork flooring!  But rather than give you the full reveal (which will probably take a couple more weeks due to work schedules, installation, poly-ing, timing, etc.) I thought I [...]

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