TG Woodworks

Check it out – Travis put our table on the front page of his website.  Wait for the third photo to load – that’s the table that’s in my house.
As soon as it’s a good season for porch-sitting again, we’re putting our white wicker furniture on Craigslist and having him make us a swing.  Stickley [...]

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You’ll shoot your eye out

The house from A Christmas Story is my second-favorite Christmas movie house (after the Ol’ Granville House from It’s a Wonderful Life), but this is a much better story.  It went for $5250 (donated to the Wounded Warrior Project) – a steal and an excellent cause.

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From Morocco, With Love

It’s well-established that our Habitat ReStore is the Greatest in All the Land – witness this, and this, and this, and this, and this, for example.  At least two other housebloggers have sought out their local ReStores after seeing the things we’ve found, and that makes my liberal heart all tingly with joy.
This afternoon’s find, [...]

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Light it up

A quick trip down south to the big city this morning brought two antique lamps into our little family (the pair for well under what we’d pay at a moderately-priced restaraunt – I won’t even tell you, you’d be so annoyed with me.  OK, I’ll tell you this much – we would have done far [...]

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And snow it begins…

Ha – I must be the punniest houseblogger!
Three inches of the white powdery stuff – Yukon gold, Texas tea, Elf cocaine – whatever you call it, it’s going to stick around until April.  Sigh.
On the bright side, I forgot how much I like riding my bike in the snow.  I dusted off my cross bike [...]

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Back Door III: A New Hope

The back door, which I’m now convinced was sold by the owners of our house in 1979 (when the mudroom was built), is coming along much, much faster than my last post suggested.  Sarah from Bangor Bungalow wrote this in the comments -
Hey Jason – I had the same (wallet) problem with chemical strippers, and [...]

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Hip in a Hurry

Missy has a secret plan to get us out of Vietnam turn Josie’s walls into a scrapbook – beginning with framed scrapbook paper and continuing with these Hip in a Hurry 3-D wall decals.  They’re white 1/4″-deep high-density foam, and she adhered cardstock to the reverse side to make a few of them solid-colored.  The [...]

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Stain advice needed

Missy and I got an e-mail from a friend this morning asking for stain advice, and we’ve decided to toss it to the Houseblogger community.  While it’s nice to be considered knowledgeable, I have to confess my absolute ignorance when it comes to floor stain.  I used oil-based stain on the maple floorboards in our [...]

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Cottage Living closes its salvaged barnwood doors

I like Cottage Living enough to read it at Barnes and Noble, but not enough to subscribe (despite their best efforts to bombard me with thousands of subscription cards and tempt me with low, low subscriber rates).  American Bungalow is the only house-related magazine we subscribe to, and that one mostly because the issues are [...]

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Back Door II: Revenge of the Back Door

The longest journey begins with a single step.  And by that I mean I’m never going to finish this ridiculous door.  Here are the things I know:

That odd box was, indeed, a doorbell.  The door used to have a hole from the outside and, I’m assuming, some sort of a knob to activate the chimes [...]

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