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Kitchen Backsplash…at last!
At long last, we’re doing the kitchen backsplash. Interesting timing…starting this project 4 days before Christmas Eve when we’re having 25 family members over!
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Kitchen Update – Not Even Done Yet!!
Cabinet doors are ALMOST done…not completely, but still LIGHT YEARS ahead of where we started!!
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Mega Update!
So, I haven’t been here in a long time…my deepest apologies! As we progressed into the repairs and updates, it became way too much of a hassle to DO the...
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Sanding and priming and painting, OH MY!
Today the family is celebrating my birthday as well as Kori, my sister-in-law! They came over to help prime/paint and eat some celebratory food. We’ve just been too busy to...
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Wood Paneling….the worst!!!!!
It is with a slight amount of guilt that I write this entry…Heather and her mom have been at the house the past two days sanding the wood paneling by...
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Mo’ Money, Mo’ stuff…..
Field day at Menard’s today! Went to buy our countertops, and i’ll spare the drama from this post about their misleading advertisements. Needless to say, we spent a lot more...
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New oven!!
Thanks to Abt, we got a new oven! In the previous post, you noticed that we cleared the way for it by ripping out the wall oven and range top...
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Time to break stuff!
Sunday, what a great day! After an awesome church service, we headed straight over to Ashley Furniture to pick out our couches! We ended up choosing chocolate brown couches...
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Major progress!
I come to you this evening with very weary hands. Today was an amazingly productive day at the Kalis House! 10am we had a friend come out to give us...
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Orphaned furniture
Tonight we took ownership of two brand new (to us) pre-owned couches! Some friends from church are excited to be getting new furniture for themselves and offered their old couches...
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Time to spend some $$!
At long last, after much pondering of what we should buy to start out our updates, I got to go to the store and spend some money! Woohoo! Off to...
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IKEA – Disney World for adults
So as Heather and I were looking at the dozens of cabinet doors, we decided that maybe it would be better to buy new doors instead of re-finishing them. Not...
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Let the madness begin!
Almost immediately, Heather and I went to work on our first project: the kitchen cabinets! Once we got started working, Linda (Heather’s mom) found some disturbing news about our drains;...