As our (extended) family has grown, so has our collection of folding tables & chairs. They come in super handy when we’re hosting a big group for the holidays, but we’ve never had a great place to keep them all the rest of the time. For years, we stored them all in a bump out…
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Our 100+ year old basement will probably never be true finished living space, but earlier this year, we decided it was time to fix it up a bit. Our goal was to clean out anything we weren’t going to use again (primarily old construction materials), freshen up the surfaces, and – most importantly – have…
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We had a plumber come out last week to tackle a couple of issues that we’d probably let go on a little too long. Both were things we’d thought we might be able to DIY, but both became a little more involved once we got into it, so we figured it would be best to…
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It’s been nearly a year since we installed a new tankless water heater and I thought it would make sense to do a quick follow-up to share our thoughts now that we’ve lived with it for a while. And, in a nutshell … we love it! We contemplated a tankless water heater for A LONG TIME…
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A couple of weeks ago, I posted about the work we (well, mostly Chad) had been doing in our basement furnace room to seal it up a little better and get it ready for the installation of a new tankless water heater. We started by insulating the exterior block wall and, more recently, we’ve been building…
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Our last few posts have been about older projects as we try to get the blog up-to-date with everything that’s been going on around the house, but I figured it was time to also share what’s been keeping us (or mostly Chad) busy recently – and that would be installing insulation in our basement furnace…
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Wow – I was thinking it had been a while since I’d posted anything to the blog and it was probably time for an update, but I had no idea it’s been almost a year. Crazy. I guess time just got away from me. Anywho, needless to say, I’m way past due in sharing what…
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A couple of weeks ago, we took a bunch of water in our basement … in the room we thought didn’t leak. We were lucky that we didn’t have a lot of stuff stored down there that we really cared about. Mostly, we just had the empty boxes from when we moved, but we’d also…
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The storm that came through the area today was supposed to result in about a foot of snow, but it turned out to be mostly rain with only a little snow. We thought we’d really lucked out with not having to plow the driveway until we went downstairs tonight around 6:00 and found our basement…
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