Tag Archive for tag: housework
professional dilettante
Tag Archive for tag: housework
Our old kitchen is GONE. See pics up on the Flickr. They: Tore out our cabinets, Tore out our bar and built-in desk (both of which will be replaced), Replaced our kitchen window, Replaced our sliding glass door in the dining room, Moved the laundry closet door (an ancient accordion door) to a different part [...]
As I mentioned in a previous post, we’re remodeling our kitchen. So far, we’ve: ordered our cabinets (Venicia by KraftMaid (Lustra Collection in Capri Honey Maple — you’ll see in the pictures), picked out flooring (Armstrong EXCELON Imperial VCT Tiles in “Little Green Apples”) picked out countertop material (Wilsonart laminate that looks like brushed aluminum) [...]
So, we’re remodeling our kitchen. Earlier this year, we sorta started looking around at houses and discovered that the housing market in Northwest Arkansas is nearly as crazy as it is in other areas of the country (like California). We could probably get close to twice (TWICE!) what we paid for our house in 2000 [...]
Apparently, I will sleep before the floor is done. It’s 12:12am, and I’ve got four rows of planks left to install, but I’m five boards short of that. Did I waste a bunch of boards, you ask? No, I ended up with only maybe three boards total of unusable scrap due to having to cut [...]
It’s now 9:09pm, and I have about seven or so 26 feet-long rows to do, including one half row against the wall. I will not sleep until the entire floor is done.
