The ceiling… duh!
Brandon and my sister’s boyfriend, Ryan, put up drywall in the kitchen last week. Here they are working very hard on one corner. (Truth is, I only took photos of them while they were working on that one spot.)

Beautiful!!! Now I just have to mud it and we’ll be ready […]

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I’ve just added a video unit from YouTube on my home page. I wanted to include some extra content without being too intrusive, so there you have it! Each time you refresh the page you’ll get a new video from either Expert Village or Home Remodel Workshop. The videos are set up on a playlist […]

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We’re getting started on the major projects in the kitchen and that includes flooring. Here’s how the floor looked when we first moved in:

Brandon started tearing up the old flooring and found some of this old linoleum:

Ironically, we had just picked out this new style of linoleum tile when we found the old stuff:

So […]

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I saw A Midsummer Night’s Dream performed in the natural theater in Greenwood Park last week. It was wonderful! But my favorite performace of Pyramus and Thisby will always be The Beatles performing it.
Meanwhile, I’ve begun building a wall myself! I’m afraid I’ll be pretty embarassed when my uncle, the landscape architect […]

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