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The fun of renovations…

March 8th, 2009 · 4 Comments

What a Saturday afternoon. As we were doing the demolition in the laundry room we heard a dreaded “drip, drip, drip”.

It quickly turned into a heavy downpour in our NEW KITCHEN.

We quickly turned off the main water line and opened faucets to drain the pipes. We then had to drill a hole in […]

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Tags: Bathroom · Laundry room · Kitchens

Looks like KitchenAid and Sears will come through for us

January 30th, 2009 · No Comments

As you might recall we are having some issues with our KitchenAid range hood. We wrote about it here.

After many emails back and forth with a Whirlpool staff member (KitchenAid is a Whirlpool line) a representative from Sears customer support called us last night. She was very nice and let us know […]

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Tags: Kitchens

Disappointment with our KitchenAid Architect Series Range Hood

December 21st, 2008 · 12 Comments

In our previous posts where we described our new kitchen we mentioned that we had chosen KitchenAid Architect Series appliances. This is our second full set of KitchenAid appliances as we had purchased them for our old house as well.

In general we have been very happy with the appliances. They are very good […]

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Tags: Kitchens

Installing the microwave trim kit

April 12th, 2008 · 5 Comments

My dad and my buddy Rich came over today to help me clean-up the backyard. I took advantage of the opportunity to have Rich help me install the microwave trim kit. Rich is an incredibly smart guy and is really good with thinking through the right steps for a project like this.

All in […]

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Ripping out the second floor kitchen and “the great refrigerator roundup”

April 9th, 2008 · 4 Comments

This past weekend my good friend Ben came over to lend a helping hand AGAIN. We tore apart the second floor kitchen and added to the junk pile in our backyard.

The demolition went well and luckily it was a beautiful day so we were able to move a lot of the cupboards and the […]

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Tags: Demolition · Disposal Service · Kitchens