Author: chonny

October 7, 2010 / / painting

For a long ass time this whole project has been goddamned disheartening. Every project turns into three more, and invariably involved more demolish work. Our schedules don’t facilitate the remodeling very well, and we’ve been living about forty minutes away for the time being. Both of us stressed from the…

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October 6, 2010 / / kitchen project

Upon realizing that our kitchen only seemed large enough due to the miniature sized appliances in it, we decided to do something pretty irreversible. We knocked down the wall in between that and the dining room, opening up the space pretty considerably. Now, one cannot just take a main support…

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September 23, 2010 / / front door project

So one of the earlier tasks we had to take care of was replacing the front door. It was a 32 inch wide entrance way, and was pretty beat up. Like, tic-tac-toe games scratched into it kind of beat up. We decided this would be the perfect opportunity to open…

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September 23, 2010 / / attic door project
September 15, 2010 / / kitchen project

So we demolished the cabinets. We pulled up all the floors. We decided this was a good time to start the electrical work, but in punching a new hole in the wall, discovered absolutely no insulation in the walls. None. Drywall and then exterior wall. What did we do? Spent…

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