Author: chonny

November 4, 2010 / / electricity project

Following on the heels of running power lines across the house, is the ongoing task of updating and adding light sources. Barely any of it was reusable, so we found ourselves buying a whole bunch more. We put in some recessed lighting in the kitchen and living room. I’ll admit,…

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November 2, 2010 / / overview

the attic is where i spend more of my time when i’m at the house. pretty much every cable for the first floor runs up into it, then down.  it is hands down the most unpleasant place in the house. its either way too hot or too cold, depending on…

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October 29, 2010 / / electricity project

the day of injuries. for whatever reason, the first day we decided to run the electrical wires, we all cut ourselves pretty badly. unintentionally. we got pictures of some of them. Jessica even cut herself so badly she almost passed out. apparently shes never been good with blood.

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October 18, 2010 / / kitchen project

So this one has been a while coming, but we didn’t have a floor for some time. I know I probably mentioned the four layers of floor we need to pull up to get to the “subfloor”, but I never mentioned the reinstallation part. Essentially for about a month we…

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October 13, 2010 / / painting

So Valspar is the name of type of paint we got. In case you were wondering. We managed to get to that last room painted the following day, and scurried about to finish it while we still had daylight. Its red. Once I finish mitering the trim and we paint…

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