Category: Musings, Ramblings and Brain Dumps

A look back at our first year in this house as we shuffled from one home improvement project to another.
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The addition project may be delayed but there is no way I am going to sit on my hands for another year without making some sawdust of my own.
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My wife and I started talking about some design ideas for the family room addition. You'll never believe what sparked the conversation.
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Adam Carolla's Catch a Contractor makes for entertaining television, but don't expect to learn anything.
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Comparing our experience when hiring a contractor with only a verbal agreement vs hiring a contractor with a written contract.
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Our house looked good on paper, but the reality was something different. We had to do a lot of work to keep the promises that the house had made.
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We found our dream house. Sure, it needed some work. But the amount of work it needed soon turned that dream to a nightmare and almost us everything.
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...I looked through my mother's photo albums, saddened by the nameless faces that stared from the pages...
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An apology for criticizing the previous owner's decorating style. Trends come and trends go. Paint colors are easy to change.
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I spent the weekend transforming our family room with a fresh coat of paint. It was a simple project, but not everything went smoothly.
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My father passed away last week. His death was sudden and unexpected. He died at home, in the house that he and my mother bought back in the 60′s...
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How the debris piled up during the demolition of the ensuite bathroom and the basement.
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