I’m kind of enamored with hiding things in our house for future homeowners to find. Maybe it’s because I would love to find things someone else hid long ago. With the upper stairway walls open, I took the opportunity to stash another piece (the first being under our front porch steps). I printed a recent […]
Stairway update: Drywall and ugly plaster
The stairway project has been a bit slow going, but we are making progress! Unfortunately, there aren’t a lot of pretty things to show you yet. We are almost back to square one with the upper walls. The drywall is up, but still needs to be taped and mudded. And on the lower portion, I started […]
Stairway makeover: Removing the wallpaper
First step in my stairway makeover is removing the ugly, stained and torn wallpaper. But this space has high ceilings, and I’m not prepared to tackle it alone. I’m bringing in my dad to help on this project. There are two areas here: above and below the trim dividing the two floors. My dad’s assignment: […]
Stairway “before” tour: Say goodbye to the ugliness
There is one area in our house that I have avoided tackling since the day we moved in: our stairway. My secret shame. It’s densely packed with ugliness and design challenges. This place has it all: sloppy paint, peeling wallpaper, banged up wood work, a weird plumbing access panel. There isn’t an inch that doesn’t […]
Photobooth photo wall art
OK who likes photobooth photos? Everybody? Thought so. But they are kind of hard to display, you know, other than tacking them up on a cork board or refrigerator. I wanted to include this one on my bedroom gallery wall, but they don’t make long and skinny frames for photo strips. I decided to go […]
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