November 2006

One of the most common search terms leading to our blog is "paint colors". I've been looking at Better Homes and Gardens from the 50s. (Separtate project, to be announced later.) And I came across these presentations of the year's colors. The first one is from 1951 (obviously) and the others are from 1957. It made me wonder,...

Shortly after we moved back into our house, we had a regular visitor. He never knocked or introduced himself, but he did park across the street and point at our house a lot with contractors in tow. We're pretty sure we saw the same pickup truck parked in front of this house: Seeing this little blue house stripped to the boards,...

Long story about the jelly jar lights. We wanted the Otis from Rejuvenation, but it would have cost over $1k for all the lights we have. And we didn't like it that much, so we spec'ed cheap ($2.71) jelly jar lights for some of the lights and kept shopping for the others. The electrician installed the jelly jar lights in all the wrong...

Over the weekend, I crossed one of the larger tasks off of my crushingly long post-move-in-to-do list. I finally installed the mosaic tile in the kitchen. We ordered it in a big hurry about 5 months ago. I've had tile work done before, but never tried it myself. I had always considered it a black art practiced by the most...