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Our New Old House LIVES!!!

Posted in December 2nd, 2008
by Kelli in bathroom, ceramic tile, flooring, future plans, paint, paneling, photos, wallpaper

Hi all,
I haven’t written here in a very long time and I’m so sorry to have left you hangin’. We rushed up on a deadline to have the house appraised last month and so we did TONS of work but I haven’t had time to blog about it until now.  But don’t worry, I took […]

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Graffiti at Our New Old House

Posted in June 8th, 2008
by Kelli in bathroom, paneling, photos

 Four of my cousins walked down the street from my grandparents’ house this week and I let them draw some graffiti on my bathroom wall. We’re planning on putting bead board paneling on the wall over the graffiti eventually.

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The ball is rolling. (Demolition day 2)

Posted in August 19th, 2007
by Kelli in carpet, future plans, paneling, photos, power tools

Day two and amazingly our team came back! Craig must be a glutton for punishment, because he stuck with us at the house from 9am to just after 5pm! I could barely keep up with him!
I started my day at 7:30, which was admittedly difficult after being at the house until just after midnight the […]

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OMG… just… OMG… (Demolition day 1)

Posted in August 17th, 2007
by Kelli in carpet, chair rail, closets, garbage, paneling, photos, wall sconce, wallpaper

Wow. I’m exhausted. It’s been a helluva day.
Left work at 3:00. Brandon got a tetanus shot at 3:45. We met up with our realtor at the mortgage office at 4:30 to do the closing. Our mortgage person said closings usually take 20 minutes to half an hour, but the four of us are chatty people […]

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General pre-closing update

Posted in August 9th, 2007
by Kelli in carpet, chimney, contractors, dryer, electricity, fireplace, garbage, landfill, neighborhood history, paneling, washing machine

This week has felt really busy but I can’t for the life of me figure out what the hell I did besides work. I have been putting in a few hours of overtime this week to make up some of the scratch I overspent last weekend up at the lake.
Last night, however, […]

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