Archive for September, 2008

The Hutch Saga Continues

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

Kitchen Hutch – (from before the house was completely finished)
This is what the hutch now looks like with two coats of “Cottage Cream” paint from Sherwin Williams. 

Yes, I went with cream. 

Yes, I realize that cream was not really an option before. 

Yes, I seriously considered many of the suggestions that were offered in the [...]

Kitchen Hutch Does Funny Cowboy Dance

Thursday, September 18th, 2008

I have mentioned before, that we ordered about half of all the cabinets in our house in “paint grade poplar” meaning the cabinets were delivered and installed unpainted in order to save a few shekels.  I really enjoy painting and thought it would be no trouble at all to paint twenty odd cabinets myself.  

Har [...]

Salvaged Brick Sidewalk

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

This story begins with a nice pile of bricks. A pile of bricks that our family salvaged from an old sidewalk in town which ran in front of my friend Kara’s house. Kara was having a new sidewalk put in and called to let me know that we could take the old bricks [...]