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When we left off last time, our living room and dining room looked like this:

On Saturday, it looked like this!

Actually, that picture is from after I’d cleaned up after the party a bit. But you get the idea.
Friday night Brandon put up the last of the wallpaper border in the dining room.

I’m very pleased […]

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Here’s where we were on Tuesday night. Party’s on Saturday. Can we do it?

I think we can.
We’ve made some good progress on the dining room. Here’s how the dining room windows looked mid-chemical strip:

And with chemical stripping done, waiting for wood filler to dry so I can sand it.

The rest of the woodwork in the […]

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Today Our New Old House smells like the following:

CitriStrip
Mineral Spirits
Fabric Softener
Laundry Detergent
Bleach
Rustoleum spray paint
Tea tree oil & lavender
Nachos

It’s been a busy weekend in Our New Old House. We set ourselves a deadline of Dec. 19 to have the living room and dining room done - or at least done enough to host a big holiday […]

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If you remember last year we had to remove the claw foot tub from the bathroom to put down new tile. We were shocked and dismayed when the feet FELL OFF the tub and the terrifying realization sunk in that for a hundred years or so this several hundred pound behemoth of cast iron was […]

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