family home projects work in progress

Moving Furniture & Door Improvements

Work continues on the house at a breakneck pace in between handling other life events. I have moved, so Erik has been tackling the home improvement projects on his own. Prior to my moving in with family for our transition between the old house and a new one, I wanted to make sure most of the big furniture was moved out of the house and all the smaller stuff was packed and moved. With the…

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family home projects work in progress

Crunch Time with Home Improvements

Normally I post to my blog on Saturday or Sunday. It is now Tuesday. We have entered crunch time with our home improvements because we filled out the paperwork to list our home for sale. Eeek! Erik and I are making steady progress, but there’s still so much to do. To say that we are stressed is the understatement of the decade. Thankfully, there is an end in sight. Speaking of decades, I thought we…

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Retr0brighting a Tub Surround

And now for something completely different in regards to our home renovation projects. Different from painting, I mean, which we have been doing a lot of. A couple of the plastic panels of our tub surround in the upstairs bathroom weren’t looking so great anymore. We had installed the tub surround during our circa 2004 home renovation, when we redid the walls in the bathroom. Over time, certain plastics yellow with exposure to UV light.…

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