Thanks to Creede at grassrootsmodern for the mention on his blog, I’ve been following it for a year now so how fun to see our blog up in lights! Looks like he is where we were last July, selling the old, buying the older. But so fun to see that others like to dismantle existing [...]
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This bath is not only Ali’s bath, but also the main bath of the house. We wanted it to be fun but not kiddie, and still go with the rest of the house’s feel and color scheme. While researching tiles, we fell in love with the penny round tiles from Ann Sacks. The ocean blue [...]
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With references from friends and knowing we wanted to incorporate environmentally friendly products into our home, we chose the Fisher & Paykel Dishdrawer, a two drawer dishwasher for our kitchen remodel. The idea is that you can load just one drawer at a time and save water and energy. Perfect for our little family of [...]
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We knew that we wanted to incorporate green into the remodel, and an easy and way to do that was with blown-in cellulose, a product that is made from recycled newspapers, magazines, etc. The texture is truly like basic recycled papers so when they do ceilings, they put a simple screen in the joists [...]
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It’s been a while, yes a long while. No, prolonged mourning for our hamster was not the reason I haven’t updated for FOUR MONTHS (how embarrassing) but merely I’ve been overwhelmed with work, family, the holidays and now thank goodness, MOVING INTO THE HOUSE! Yes, we are in, there is still plenty of work to [...]
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I’m severely behind in my blogging, compared to progress done on the house, but will try to bring it up to date in the next few days. At least there will be more photos to compare progress instead of a bunch of studs hanging around. And I don’t mean just Jeff, Paul and Nate. The [...]
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Plans, plans, we’re full of plans. Actually, the kitchen and the bath are the only two rooms that actually had plans that were drawn up. Here’s an overview: Can’t wait to have our expanded master bath complete so I can languish in my 5’5″ Kohler Tea for Two instead of cramming myself into our [...]
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The master bedroom was a nicely sized room, but with a sink in the corner of the bedroom and an oddly angled doorway to the bath (which was about 4′ square and included a bidet, toilet and a spit sink) it needed a serious re-do. The master closet entered into the room as well and [...]
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