In tearing out a cabinet to install the dishwasher, we discovered several paint colors our kitchen had once been:

Color Inspiration: strained peas and mac n’ cheese.
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Brandon and I finished putting up the fascia this weekend so the gutter guys could come put up the gutters this morning.
I primed the boards before we put them up.

Then we nailed them onto the ends of the rafters.

Brandon was a wiz at measuring and cutting the boards to fit. We ended up with […]

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We had central air installed at the end of last month and a couple weeks ago we had a duct run up to the attic so we can use that room comfortably year round. 

Now I need to look into options for improving the insulation of the attic.
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Here’s the back gate in my back yard.  It’s in the middle of an incomplete fence which is not going to keep anyone out of anything.  But it is heavily fortified against anyone who’d try to wrestle it open through the trees that have grown up through it.  I guess the previous owners thought a […]

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Our new bathroom floor is in!  But before I show you pictures of that, let me tell you about the drain on our clawfoot tub.
We suspect the plumbing on it was original.  Whether it was or not, it was old enough to be nothing but a pain in the drain. 
First of all, when Brandon went […]

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