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March 10, 2010

Upholstery Savings

Since our current sofa and chairs really didn’t work in our new living room, I pulled out these saved pieces and took them in to Valley Upholstering.

I wouldn’t trust these much beloved pieces of furniture to just anyone. Around for decades, Valley Upholstering is where the top interior designer take their clients pieces and where upscale department stores subcontract their upholstery work.

March 01, 2010

The Last Throws of our Renovation Saga

Filed Under: Home & Garden, Consumer

Our home renovation saga and bank accounts are nearly at an end. We are finishing up a new patio cover, window coverings, the garage conversion and the biggie…a complete chimney rebuilds.

February 22, 2010

Lamp Quest

During our re-design of our home I wanted to brighten up our dining room with new lamp shades. I was able to find a bunch of cream silk chandelier shades at Lowe’s at Lamps Plus for $3-$6. But a pair of table lamp shades proved harder to do.

After shopping through dozens of websites and stores I finally decided I should look into either re-covering them or using different shaped shades all together.

February 15, 2010

Re-Purpose, Re-Claim and Recycle the Old

I hate to throw things away …. But I also hate to keep things I don’t need and have too much stuff.
Re-using and re-purposing the old is one of the best bargains around. Not only do you usually get higher quality goods but you’ll save money and keep stuff out of the landfill
Here are some ways we re-claimed and re-purposed stuff to save money.

February 04, 2010

Renovation Surprises

Here’s a good one….
Did I tell the one about the 1926 home whose garage had no foundation?
Our contractor found that that our garage was not level and had a floor water leak.  Looks like our garage had been sitting nicely on our lot for the last 84 years without a foundation! Yikes!

February 01, 2010

Caesar Stone Counter Tops

As our renovation saga continues ... the way we buy the best for less also continues!
We waited patiently a couple of days for the estimate of our new Caesar Stone counter tops.  During which I called a few other sources and got ballpark quotes of $2900-$3500 based on the measurements taken.

We braced ourselves and tried to come up with an alternative that made hubby and I as happy. Not much came to mind.

January 20, 2010

Our Renovation Saga Continues

OMG! The kitchen is just one series of repairs.

The recent dishwasher install meant we had to drill a hole to put in an air intake. This revealed that the wood under the kitchen counter wasn’t wood but was an old Formica counter top (laminate on press board). Further inspection revealed it was rotted away.

January 14, 2010

I’m an Organizing Fool

No doubt I made a fool out of myself at the Container Store yesterday. When I found a solution to an odd cabinet problem found in our 1926 home… I got stupid giddy. The dishwasher install took out my best kitchen drawers and a cabinet. Not one deep drawer left in the kitchen. No place for the dough roller, hand mixer or dish towels.

January 04, 2010

Ikea Sunday

Sunday, Hubby, I and the kid stopped into Ikea to see if they had some options for our counter space problem in our new kitchen.

I hadn’t seen a zoo of people at Ikea like this since they first opened. Every room had hundreds of people milling through the rooms, on in-store computers and trying out every fixture, furnishing or doodad they could find.

December 31, 2009

New Home Repairs and Dilemas 12/30/2009

The additional weight of the new porcelain tile and vintage stove caused concern for our contractor.

He crawled under the house to make sure it could support the extra weight. He decided we needed to add extra supports to the joists of the floor to secure and support the additional weight.

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