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How to Keep New Counters Clutter-Free

Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 8th, 2007

Don’t move in! (take a good look, because some spots on this countertop will never be visible again)

How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Mix…

Posted in new old house on Dec 6th, 2007

…if a woodchuck built a house and mixed all these woods? We’ve got a patchwork forest going on in our house – and in the kitchen that goes double, or triple. Or more. How much wood is too much wood? The answer, at least for us, is never – there’s never enough. You can never [...]

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That Sinking Feeling

Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 16th, 2007

If no news is good news, then a lot of news is sure to be really, really bad. Today we learned why they call it the “home stretch” – because finishing your new home stretches your farthest, nail-biting, migraine limits. It is a sinking feeling. There’s a lot of action at the house right now, [...]

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Coffee Cake Island

Posted in Holiday on Nov 14th, 2007

Well, if there isn’t, there should be a Coffee Cake Island – a golden place, where you lay on sugar beaches and hunky cabana boys bring you cinnamon swirl cake and frosty pina coladas. Sadly, there is not. So this tiny paradise will have to do – the new kitchen island. Just under 36 x [...]

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40 Years and 115 Pieces

Posted in Holiday on Nov 2nd, 2007

Today is my fortieth birthday. Think – what’s the best birthday present a girl a house-building girl can get? Cabinets, that’s what. One hundred and fifteen pieces of cabinets, hardware and trim, to be exact. A nice haze of sawdust and the screech of drilling drills – it all makes me very, very happy. Whoever [...]

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