Our house sat uninhabited for 10 years before we bought it. Prior to that, an elderly gentleman lived here for 30 years. To say that the landscaping had been neglected is a bit of an understatement. When most people buy or build a house it comes with at least an outline of landscaping. For us,…
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We Never Thought This Day Would Come!
Anyone who has been following this blog for a while knows that we have done most of the work on this house ourselves because we are picky, we enjoy the creative process, and dealing with contractors can be very frustrating. Because so much of the exterior work that is needed on our house is beyond…
Chicken Village
It’s summer! We should be doing outside projects on the house, but not much is getting done because we can’t seem to find a carpenter who wants to tackle the exterior of the house. On the inside, the downstairs bathroom, kitchen, and dining room are all essentially done, but we are struggling to track down…
Spring Break, No Break, Back Break
Joe and I are teachers, which means we have a good old fashioned spring break penciled in each year to get a jump start on warm-weather projects. This year we had a long list of projects that we wanted to do on the house, but we have learned over the past two years that there…
Under New Management 