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Happy Holidays from Our New Old House!

Posted in December 24th, 2009
by Kelli in holidays, photos

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Mission Accomplished!

Posted in December 20th, 2009
by Kelli in dining room, doors, holidays, living room, photos, wallpaper, woodwork

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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A Cacophony of Smells

Posted in December 13th, 2009
by Kelli in built-ins, carpet, dining room, flooring, holidays, living room, paint, woodwork

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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Light ‘em up!

Posted in December 17th, 2007
by ournewoldhouse1 in holidays, photos

It’s Christmastime! I decorated Our New Old House with lots of lights so Santa will be sure and find our house. I do worry how he’ll get through the glass door on the front of our wood burning stove fireplace though. Must remember to leave the latch undone when I go to […]

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Our HAUNTED new old house!

Posted in October 30th, 2007
by ournewoldhouse1 in holidays

Among other little tasks I did around the house today, I decorated for Halloween and got candy for beggar’s night!

We went to a couple of GREAT Halloween parties in Chicago this weekend. Here we are all dressed up!

Spoooooooky!!

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