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A Week in the Life

of a mudroom.

Let me just say right up front that this project is cursed and has been since the idea first came to us 3 years ago. It’s taken us those 3 years to get started on it because every time we save up almost enough money to buy everything the Universe would cause [...]

Home Improvement–part 2

Replacing the damp carpets with new wood flooring was only part of the problem solving. We needed to stop the flooding in the atrium or we’d just have wet wood instead of wet carpet.

We decided to roof over it.

Bad blogger that I am, I failed to take the requisite ‘before’ photos & so [...]

The flooring saga

You may remember, way back in mid August, when the back bedrooms flooded we discovered that the carpets were not just damp but slightly moldy & the trim in one corner was disintegrating & we decided to rip out all the carpet & replace it with wood.

But of course it’s not that easy. The [...]