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Update: Carpet Padding

Posted in November 28th, 2007
by ournewoldhouse1 in carpet, dining room, photos

I’ve been making steady progress scraping up the solidified carpet padding from days of yore. Here are some pictures of the past two weeks’ progress:

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Pictures from the weekend… and beyond!

Posted in September 19th, 2007
by ournewoldhouse1 in bathroom, bedroom, dining room, electricity, gutters, landscaping, living room, photos, shower, wallpaper

I told you about scraping the wallpaper in the front bedroom. Here’s a picture of my progress so far:

I also told you about Grandma persevering at scraping the wallpaper in the living room and dining room:

Yesterday and today she worked on that and now she’s only got one little section left before she’s all done. […]

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My weekend: solo

Posted in September 17th, 2007
by ournewoldhouse1 in Clear Lake house, bathroom, bedroom, budget, dining room, wallpaper, washing machine

While Brandon is in San Antonio for two weeks training for his job, I’m making a lot of little steps of progress that will hopefully amount to a lot of transformation by the time he comes back.
On Friday after work I drove up to Clear Lake to take care of some cleaning, check on the […]

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Progress… in progress

Posted in August 31st, 2007
by Kelli in bathroom, ceiling fan, chimney, contractors, dining room, electricity, fireplace, light fixtures, living room, photos, wood burning stove

The electricians are probably going to wrap up today. We stopped by the house to drop of a light fixture for the kitchen and we took a look around. Here are pictures!
The house is in various stages of disarray, but no worries!

This is the light fixture that was removed from the basement hallway. Pretty gross […]

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Lights, camera, action!

Posted in August 28th, 2007
by Kelli in bathroom, ceiling fan, dining room, electricity, light fixtures, living room, photos

On Saturday we went to Home Depot and Menards to buy light fixures for the whole house. That was fun, but it’s not getting any easier to drop that much money in a single trip to the hardware store. Mom and Brandon talked me into buying a ceiling fan/light for the living room. […]

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