tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-102853312011-12-05T06:29:08.408-08:00Adventures in our new old house.dandyapplenoreply@blogger.comBlogger121100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10285331.post-1143556628440386932006-03-28T06:22:00.000-08:002006-10-29T07:01:39.556-08:00

Are you bored with your current project?Do you frequent houseblogs.net but, have no project of your own?Do you have money burning a hole in your pocket?Are you just itching to move to west Tennessee? (Admit it, you are!)Have you ever wanted to live in a church?Even though I am perfectly happy with our stonehouse, I still obsessively browse the real estate listings. Maybe I am just nosy (I am.) Or

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Long time no blog.So, we have been in the stonehouse for about a year now, and the room that disgusts us most, is the kitchen. I hate our kitchen. I loathe our kitchen. I despise our kitchen. Did I mention that I hate our kitchen? Every room in the house makes me happy except the kitchen. Have you ever gone somewhere or seen something, that just gives you that icky kind of sick feeling, like,

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We began our bedroom "makeover" this weekend. Our bedroom is the room in the house that needed the least work so we figured we would get it out of the way. We had three objectives. 1. Paint walls. 2. Pull up carpet. 3. Paint Trim. #1 Check #2 Check. We were prepping the trim at one of the windows for paint hubby noticed the plaster was unusually bumpy around the apron. So he starts pokin on it

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Merry Christmas 

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There is no original crown molding in our house, because all of the ceilings in our house have been repaired/replaced by someone at some time. We don't know much beyond that. However, the hallway does give us some clues as to what it may have looked like. The hall is the only room that has not been drywalled, and still has awesome textured plaster. At the top of the walls and below the

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Well, I am a total slacker when it comes to our house blog. I haven't posted anything since April. The main reason for not posting is, well, there is not much to talk about. We are sort of lucky that when we bought the house there was nothing that HAD to be done to make it livable. But having said that, after being in the house for 9 months, I have realized that since nothing HAS to be done, it

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So we went for a drive through old neighborhoods a couple weeks ago-of course keeping our eyes out for "junk" on the curb. And there it was, the most marvelous old juke box just hanging out on the side of the road. But as luck would have it, we had decided to take the car that day instead of the truck. Comfort Schmomfort! We were probably 40 miles from home, so we couldn't just go grab the truck,

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Oh my word, it has been a month and a half since I posted anything on our blog. SHAMEFUL! Here is a run down on things we have been working on:Painting:-Exterior trim around windows (Grisaille Grey)-Exterior doors (Orchid Night)-Bathroom (Asparagus)-Below the chair rail in dining room (Bordeaux)**still haven't found the right golden yellow for above the chair rail-Interior trim (white)Outside:-

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Flaky floors

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Well I suppose we can, but we better have planned it out during the week. Let me back up--we moved here (pop. 7500) from there (pop. 100,000). So far the perks of living in a small town far outweigh the cons. One of the cons being there are no paint stores open on Saturday.We had decide on two colors for the dining room. A golden browny yellowy kind of color for above the chair rail and a reddish

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The contractor that sold us the house was not what you would call a craftsman, and he probably wasn't all that concerned about keeping the integrity of the house. The vinyl trim on the exterior, and the new solid pane windows are probably good from a maintenace and energy standpoint, but they do make it hard to tell what the house used to look like. There are very cheap and well, frankly ugly

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We don't know too much about our house's history yet. It is listed in the tax rolls as being built in 1936. We have learned from neighbors that the last residents lived here for about 20 years. They lost the house, and a contractor bought the house in mid 2004. The contractor did quite a bit of work (new roof, windows, kitchen) and listed the house for sale in late 2004, when we bought it.

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