Got a random assortment of stuff on your dresser? Want to pull together a group of pictures frames that don’t go together? Resist the urge to buy the matched set. It’s easy to pull a mismatched collection together with a serving tray you probably already have stored somewhere else that is longing to serve. Take [...]
Archive for August, 2009
Aug 09 2009
A Very Ugly Kitchen – Chapter 5 – “Bring on Some Color, Baby”
With our big ticket purchases on the books (In case you missed the last few installments, click here), we put our remaining funds–actually dwindling, is more like it–toward paint. Removing the wallpaper border at the ceiling revealed the original pastel pink (pink!) paint from yesteryear. I’m beginning to think the previous homeowners ate sherbet constantly, [...]
Aug 05 2009
Shake It Up and Spray It Down
Do you ever get your best ideas in the shower? You’ve got no pen, no access to any method of recording your thought, so you just have to repeat it (for 8 seconds, actually, in order for it to transition into your long-term, short-term memory, or something like that, according to our dad’s best secretary [...]
Aug 03 2009
Lisa’s Georgian-A Labor of Love
Gosh, I love this house, and miss it too. A labor of love, to be sure, this Georgian beauty was my first experience in home ownership. It wooed me away from our urban digs in Chicago into a life of simple pleasures in suburbia. On the day we drove out to look at the house, [...]
