Tag: The Stronghold: Our First House

September 6, 2010 / / kitchen project

The largest project of the house is by far the kitchen. We initially thought it was pretty livable, but that was until we started taking little bits of it apart. The initial intention was to do some reorganizing, maybe some updating, but not much more. Once we started removing the…

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September 5, 2010 / / The Stronghold
September 3, 2010 / / The Stronghold

When you spend an entire weekend pulling up weeds, trimming back hedges and pressure washing your new house you accomplish two things.  The first is relatively obvious, the second is a little less so but has large payout of “good neighbor” points. To the first, the outside of the house…

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September 2, 2010 / / overview

Every good story has a back story. This one starts with this picture line up. It can only go up from here, right? Sorry in advance about the pic sizes.. they came off of the real estate website so the quality is pretty much garbage at a larger size!

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August 26, 2010 / / overview

Hello people. Please come with us on a journey of pain, stress, expenses, and plasterdust. We’ve bought a house and need renovate it. It all started about six months ago. The Jessica and myself found ourselves at a point in our lives where buying a house sounded like a good…

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