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Getting ready to finish our home renovation projects

Posted by Tricia in Wednesday, June 17th 2009

As most of my regular readers know my husband and I have been slowly (very slowly) renovating our home. In about a month we’re going to finally finish our living room dining room.
All that needs to be done in the living room dining room is to put up the tin ceiling tiles [...]

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My husbands 150 dollar mistake

Posted by Tricia in Thursday, March 26th 2009

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Why do guys tinker with things that don’t really need fixing? Why???
Last weekend Chris was in the basement cleaning up our tool area when he found our old Brita “on tap” water filter. The one that we had on our kitchen faucet had been leaking a little bit so Chris came up [...]

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Don’t you hate it when things start breaking down in your home?

Posted by Tricia in Sunday, December 7th 2008

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I rarely use our basement washroom, but for some reason, I used it earlier today. That’s when I made a discovery … the taps we have in that bathroom are beginning to break. Figures .. just when we have NO money we’re probably going to have to go out and buy a new [...]

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My house is rattling! Neighbor doing renovations! Argh

Posted by Tricia in Thursday, November 20th 2008

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Our neighbors are renovating again!
They moved into the house next door (it’s attached to ours) in June and for the first month they did some reno work. We’d suggested that they knock down at least one of their living room walls, like we did, to open up the space.
Believe me it [...]