Monthly Archives: April 2012
Our House… Dining Room Table… Finally!
This has been a long time coming. I started to show you a tour of our “garage turned dining room” in January, but then I was delayed in showing this corner because it’s where I had tons of stuff stored for renovations on the “Little Brick Cottage”, but finally, it’s ready to be seen by blogland!
Finally you can get the Read on…
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Little Brick Cottage… Back Bedroom Done!
Last time I showed you the front bedroom, in this two bedroom “Little Brick Cottage”. Now I’m going to show you how we transformed the back bedroom.
When we first bought this antique Victorian brick house, so quaint and sorta small it quickly got the name ‘the little brick cottage’. At that time the back bedroom looked like this: (almost as startling as Large Marge was in PeeWee’s Big Adventure, remember? “…and she looked like this…!”)
There she is, in all her ‘before’ glory! Read on…
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Little Brick Cottage…Bedroom Transformation!
There are two bedrooms in the “Little Brick Cottage”, a front bedroom off the dining room, and a back bedroom off the kitchen. This is the front bedroom being transformed. Let’s start with some before pictures to remember it by:
When we first bought the cottage the front bedroom was Read on…
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Monday’s Simple Cleverness… Looking for a Stud!
Stand down, gentlemen!
Looking for a stud…in the wall, you know, behind the sheetrock.
Sometimes you need to be sure you locate a stud in the wall on the first try. Like me this week in one of the spare bedrooms I was working on. I wanted to mount some swing arm lamps on a wall that had wallpaper, and I for sure didn’t want to mess up that paper, but for sure needed them mounted in studs so when being adjusted they stayed mounted on the wall, so I pulled out my clever and handy ‘stud finder’…
Yep, this is just about the time for that guy to jump in Read on…
