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new hardwood floor in the vestibule

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First, a huge, ginormous hug (sorry if you’re not a hugger) to those of you who gave me the heads up about that uncooperative ad that was showing up over our posts. Super sorry about that but I think I have it fixed. I think it was specific to tablets (ipads, kindles, etc), but if anyone continues to have any problems please just give me a shout so I can ring someone’s neck take care of it. Thanks!!

“Who knew I had it in me?”.

Those were Joel’s first words after he finished replacing the hardwood floors in our vestibule all by himself.

And just for clarity, it’s a vestibule because we’re high falutin’.

Remember what the floors looked like after we pulled up the carpet in there?

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curb appeal idea – chunky patio posts

A huge thank you to Simpson Strong-Tie for sponsoring this post and making such great products to help everyone accomplish some DIY Done Right!

Exactly 8 months ago to this day I shared 14 curb appeal ideas that were all inspired by the abysmal state of the front of our house.

We actually didn’t close on the house until March 29th, two days later, so I’m not sure what it says that I already had down on paper my ideas for whipping her into shape from the outside in. But, slowly we have been making progress on a few key items on that list and our latest project has both Joel and I feeling like we are seriously transforming this old house into something we think is awesome. [Read more…]