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More Kitchen - During But Closer to After

Posted on August 3, 2007 - Filed Under DIY or D-I-Y, Home Improvement | 3 Comments

Here are some updated photos of our kitchen. It is still in the “during” phase but much closer to being finished. With little money and lots of new counterspace, the best way to finish the countertops was with tile. I love the way it came out.
Still have to do the backsplash […]

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Our Kitchen - During

Posted on July 31, 2007 - Filed Under DIY or D-I-Y, Home Improvement | 9 Comments

Okay, you saw the before pictures. These are the “during” pictures because we haven’t really completed the project yet. TGH has been doing almost all the work himself from building the cabinets from scratch to insulating walls and everything. We did contract out for the plumbing and electrical but TGH has done […]

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Our Kitchen - Before

Posted on July 30, 2007 - Filed Under DIY or D-I-Y, Home Improvement | 15 Comments

I’ve been wanting to do this post for a while but had to go back and find my old photos. I apologize for the quality of the pictures but I am no photographer. I’m about as good at taking pictures as I am at wrapping presents. Some of you are wonderful photographers but you weren’t […]

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Curtain Problem Solved

Posted on July 3, 2007 - Filed Under DIY or D-I-Y, Home Improvement | 4 Comments

When TGH enclosed the screened porch on our older home, he replaced all the screens with real windows. He did a beautiful job with everything out there from the external siding, to the floor, walls, and ceiling. But, we didn’t realize it would be nice to add curtains to keep the sun from […]

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Our Garden

Posted on July 2, 2007 - Filed Under DIY or D-I-Y, Flowers/Gardening, Home Improvement | 3 Comments

TGH built some raised beds for me to plant some vegetables. It was a lot of hard work - he is too good to me. I thought it came out looking pretty good. I decided to have him make triangular beds because I can reach those from all sides (my fellow short […]

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Home Improvement

Posted on June 13, 2007 - Filed Under DIY or D-I-Y, Home Improvement | Leave a Comment

Poor TGH! He works hard at his job all day. On weeknights and weekends he works on updating the older home we live in. I know he didn’t need yet MORE work to do, and I really didn’t mean to make him any more work but…this morning after my shower I went […]

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