Livable Second Floor

The Little Things

Sometimes the things that make a place seem crappy or nice are very small. Once the living room was painted I replaced the electrical outlets with nice new ones. The old outlets were just one more manifestation of the wealth of wrong that permeates the house like some fetid disease. Every time we plugged in […]

Livable Second Floor

Busy Busy

We’ve been working on the house so much that we’ve fallen behind on the blog! I published a post about trim that I actually wrote early last week and forgot to finish. We’ve made a ton of progress since then. Let me re-cap. To get things caught up I’ll jump back about a week and a […]

Livable Second Floor

Getting Trim

Things are coming along at the house. It’s starting to look like moving in isn’t some far-off fantasy. We created a list of things that need to be done for each room in order to move in, and we’ve been crossing them off as we finish. One of the bigger projects was the trim. Sarah […]

Livable Second Floor

It Can Be Fixed!

Towards the beginning I decided to tear some tiles off the wall in the second story kitchen by the living room door.  Here is a picture of me in the process… You may be wondering why I did it?  Well, the tiles were only half-glued on in the first place.  And, there were cockroaches running […]

Livable Second Floor

Bit by Bit

We’ve continued to work, and in fact I’ve taken a lot of photos with the good camera so I can publish several projects once I get some time (ha!). Until then, I have some shots from the cell phone that I can put up fairly easily. I’ll see if I can cover the stuff we’re […]

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