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Author Archives: Stacey
You Should Seek Professional Help: Interior Designers (Part 3)
Wednesday! Wednesday was the day! We met with our interior designer about the plans for the upstairs. Just to recap, our upstairs space is one large, partially finished room with inadequate electrical service and little light. As much as it pains … Continue reading
Switching It Up
Parenting Instructor: Making a happy home isn’t like flipping on a light switch. Cletus: Light switch?? – The Simpsons Originally, there weren’t a whole lot of light switches (or, indeed, electrical outlets) in this house. Most of the lights would … Continue reading
Cat Cozy for a Cozy Cat
Tuck in time! – Marge Simpson Our cat Mayya likes to snuggle up under blankets. She will ask us to lift up the covers for her to burrow in. More amusingly, she’ll try to do it herself, which often doesn’t … Continue reading
A Sesquicebloggial Special!
Happy anniversary, baby! – Homer Simpson Today is our first blogiversary, and this is our 150th post, so you know what that means: IT’S SESQUICEBLOGGIAL TIME! Sesquicewhatial? Well, back in 1986, Texas celebrated its sesquicentennial–its 150th anniversary of just plain … Continue reading
Porch Fest 2013: Door > Floor
Helloooo? I’m cold and there are wolves after me. – Abe Simpson Given our unexpectedly lengthy search for a way to strip the porch floor AND the suddenly-very-impending winter, the Kev and I agreed that replacing the porch door was our … Continue reading
Stripping on the Front Porch: The Continuing Saga
We are still trying to strip the porch floor. Last time, we detailed a bunch of paint stripping products and techniques, none of which had really worked against the original layer. After that long line of failures and some research, … Continue reading
Posted in D'oh!, Porch, Salvage, Walls & Floors
Tagged reviews of paint removers, stripping old paint, stripping paint from floor
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Winterizing Your Yard and Garden
Lisa: What a perfect outing for a beautiful autumn day. Marge: I feel sorry for everyone who’s cooped up inside watching the seventh game of the World Series. – The Simpsons I love fall! (And when in the UK, I … Continue reading
Posted in American vs English, Yard & Garden
Tagged fall garden maintenance, garden clean-up, winter mulch
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You Should Seek Professional Help: Interior Designers (Part 2)
Last time on D’oh, I talked about what an interior designer does and how one can help plan your project. We hired an interior designer to help us with our upstairs loft space. Once we have a plan, a range … Continue reading
You Should Seek Professional Help: Interior Designers (Part 1)
We could dress it up a bit. We can bring in a fern, and a folding chair from the garage, and the most decorative thing of all — the truth! – Marge Simpson The other day, the Kev and I … Continue reading
