February 20th, 2008
Just as an update to my last post, with the addition of the deduction of the real estate taxes paid at closing our combined total state and federal refund came to $1600! We haven’t actually received our return yet, but that didn’t stop us from spending some of our proceeds in anticipation, thanks mostly to […]
read more...September 11th, 2007
After all of the stress, money, last minute renovations and repairs our housewarming party was sort of a bust. I KNEW things weren’t going to go well when friday night (the night before the party) we discovered that the faucet we bough for the downstairs party room didn’t have the bolts on it. We had […]
read more...September 7th, 2007
Have to be quick, preparing for party tomorrow! We tried the smooshing, rolled on the BM metallic veil cream over the BM revere pewter undercoat. Applied the plastic sheeting and shmooshed.. then peeled and it looked really weird..the patterns the plastic made seemed too busy, too close together. Maybe we didn’t do it right? So […]
read more...September 5th, 2007
We painted the BM Revere Pewter in the downstairs powder room last night.. its one of those chameleon like colors. It looked like a pure gray in my test patch, but when I got the fan deck outside in the natural light it had a distinct mauvish pinky gray undertone. And last night, but the […]
read more...September 4th, 2007
But we have an excuse – we had our first overnight house guests! We had hoped to have the bathrooms primed and painted before their arrival, but we only got as far as the priming and then lots and lots of cleaning ensued. I have to thank Mike and Tracy because had they not come […]
read more...August 31st, 2007
First of all, I forgot to post this baroque bathroom pic yetserday: Pretty no? It has an accent wall like Iloveupstate suggested! Last night I added about 10 shades of gray to my already absurdly large collection of BM sample pots. But I may return nine of them because I fell in love with the […]
read more...August 30th, 2007
I can’t possibly write a real post today, my head is swimming with random ideas and bits of information on wall treatments and how I can get a metallic-ish, brocade-ish, baroque-ish feel in the powder room. So here’s a little pictoral peak inside the madness: (image from Decor8 archives) from Brocade Home Farrow & Ball […]
read more...August 29th, 2007
…that may never come. I’m having a terrible time picking a date when our small handful of close friends will be available. So instead, we decided to have a few people who are around this holiday weekend over for a small gathering this Sunday and schedule a bigger to-do for the last week in September […]
read more...August 27th, 2007
The weekend started with a trip to Lowes Friday Night to look for a pedestal sink. Jeff decided to head out to the garden section (which is outdoors) to look for a large planter. Spotting one he liked on the shelf above his head, he tilted it towards him to look inside. Big mistake! Jeff […]
read more...August 24th, 2007
So I can finally reveal the ultimate reason almost nothing has gotten done in past 10 days – Jeff’s been away on a business trip! (I was hesitant to broadcast over the world wide web that I was home alone or I would have mentioned it earlier.) So now that we’ve set a date for […]
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