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Category Archives: Toolbox
Adding-on to your Pantry
If your pantry is like mine, it is a jungle of cans, boxes, and bags–some stacked two or three deep and constantly falling or getting lost. What every pantry needs is more space. Thanks to my friend, Jill, and to … Continue reading
Posted in Organization, Toolbox
Tagged door shelves, organizing, organizing pantry, pantry shelves
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Dining Room Accountability
In an effort to actually finish a project, I have decided that posting pictures along the way might actually keep me moving forward. Sometimes it’s money or time that stalls my projects, but more often it’s just my own lack … Continue reading
Posted in Just Thinking..., Paint Projects, Toolbox
Tagged board and batten, dining room, new chandelier
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How To Install a Retro Phone
When my children were young, they discovered their grandmother’s telephone. They, of course, had seen a telephone before (we had a few in our own home), but this one was different because it had a rotary dial and hung on … Continue reading
Posted in Easy Fixes, Toolbox
Tagged install wall phone, relocating phone jack, retro telephone
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Faucet Fix or How to Give Your Sink a Face Lift
I confess to hating my kitchen sink. Stainless can be nice, but I believe my stainless sink is the lowest grade the builder could buy. After we developed a leak around the equally ugly faucet, I began to plan my … Continue reading
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Tagged DIY kitchen, replacing kitchen faucet, sink facelift, update sink
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Caulk Talk
Good morning! I have a riveting post about caulk but my award-winning (I need the new sarcasm mark) photos were too bad to post…Hope your Friday is fabulous and your coffee robust! (www.homesanctuary.typepad.com) Jamie Who cares about caulk? you ask. … Continue reading
Adding Character
I am so bummed I missed Friday morning coffee, hosted by Rachel Anne at Home Sanctuary…Maybe next week! Our house was built in 1992–nice neighborhood and great yard–but fairly nondescript. Like many houses built in the 70s, 80s, and 90s, … Continue reading
How to Strip Wallpaper
There is no way to sugarcoat the job of stripping wallpaper. It is plain, unadulterated drudgery. As I stated in the previous post, the only fun part of stripping wallpaper comes when you are finished, and you are not staring … Continue reading
Plan for Stripping Wallpaper
Stripping wallpaper is not an easy, clean task. Most people dread it–especially if someone else hung the paper and did not prepare the wall with primer and/or sizing first. In the happy land where I like to live, previous homeowners … Continue reading
Looking Up for Space
Finally, my um…frugal-when-it-comes-to-himself husband bought himself a fun car. It is a Jeep Wrangler and really is a blast to ride around in. (He has no desire to go “mudding,” I think…He was not looking for anything except the wind … Continue reading
Lamps and Lighting
In the beginning there was nothing. God said, “Let there be light!” And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better. ~Ellen DeGeneres While lighting might not be the least expensive … Continue reading
