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Monthly Archive: September, 2006

Question – Where to purchase area rugs?

We’ve been talking about biting the bullet and investing in 2-3 area rugs to protect our hardwood floors. After all the hard work, we’d hate to see them destroyed by our own dirty sneakers. Though I’d love to get some gorgeous high-end Persian rugs, they’re not in the budget – and not a smart investment […]



Ceilings and walls; a welcome change

With our upstairs electrical finished and a full weekend ahead of us, we decided to get crazy and start putting up walls in our stairwel/hallway. Not that I don’t love the open, airy feel of the exposed plaster and framing… it’s the dirt and debris that shakes out of it with every footstep I’m getting […]



Fall Inspection Checklist

If (unlike us) you’re ready to start preparing your house for fall, This Old House has a very comprehensive Fall Inspection checklist. If you hit every item on this list, you’re bound to find enough to keep you busy till the snow flies. Get it now:Fall Inspection Checklist As for us, we’re just hoping to […]



Final Product: Garage

I showed you the work in progress, and the house it was built for, so I thought you might be interested in seeing the final product. Here it is, in all it’s glory: The owners of this garage (dubbed “the cathedral” by neighbors) have excellent taste, and Teague was thrilled to get the chance to […]



Keeping the romance alive

We’re getting close to our 2-year anniversary as house owners, and it’s starting to show. As every day passes, we grow less and less enthusiastic about the gazillion projects left to start (and finish). The wild crush I had on my house has all but disappeared. It’s not that the excitement hasn’t faded before; it […]



Rewiring our house: a post-mortem

We took advantage of the long weekend (and the exposed hallway walls/ceiling) to finish rewiring all of the upstairs electrical. This is a major milestone for us. Finally checking “Electrical” off the to-do list, after nearly two years of fiddling, is extremely satisfying. I love drawing a nice thick line through something huge like that. […]



An electrical milestone

As of tonight, every upstairs bedroom has an overhead light that runs off of a switch. While this may not seem exciting to most, it means we’ll no longer have to enter pitch black rooms with our arms flailing above our heads searching madly for a tiny little pull chain. The propeller-arm era has officially […]



Admiring our cupola

Though we’re stubbornly leaving the windows open at night and resisting long sleeves, it’s evident that fall is closer than we think. I could see my breath this morning, and had to wipe the dew from my car windows. The air is crisper; sunsets are earlier. Our (half-unhooked) radiators are blissfully unaware of how soon […]