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Entries from September 2008

Finishing up the back deck

September 28th, 2008 · 6 Comments

We’ve spent a lot of time this summer building out the back deck. It’s been a big job and we have been lucky to have lots of support from our friends - especially Ben.

Anke has always wanted to add a lower section so we said why not? It made a lot of sense […]

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Tags: backyard · deck

Lighting in our front foyer

September 17th, 2008 · 7 Comments

We found this light fixture at Hardware on Queen St. West a few weeks ago. They had it hanging over their front door and we thought it would look great in our foyer. It’s simple yet elegant. Hardware has some interesting lighting- they bring in limited amounts of glass that they then retrofit into lighting- […]

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Tags: Lighting · The new house

Interesting day renovating the front porch

September 9th, 2008 · 5 Comments

This is such a typical renovation story that I’m sure you can relate to…

This past Saturday my buddy Ben came over to help me with the renovations. We planned on finishing the lower deck, cleaning up some electrical in the upstairs den, fixing an issue with the kitchen fan, and re-building the front porch […]

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Tags: Front Porch

Almost done the second floor den

September 9th, 2008 · No Comments

As mentioned previously we are making progress on the second floor den. Austin’s team has been working hard on the drywall and mudding, priming and finally on re-building the trim around the doors and windows. Originally (like everyone I am sure) we tried to save the original trim. But in looking at […]

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Tags: Painting · Contractors