Sorry for the last minute notification here, but I just found out about this. Historic Denver is holding a series of preservation workshops for homeowners. Based on the info on their site, they appear to be very practical. This workshop is held this Saturday, November 12 3-7PM. As you may remember, we applied for (and [...]
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Sometimes you don’t have time to do a whole project, but the current state of affairs is just too dreary! We really want to re-do our bathrooms and we even have the historic sinks waiting to be installed in our basement, but no time yet…and not money yet. But, the bathrooms function (somewhat), so it’s [...]
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Well, maybe we’re not completely to AFTER yet. Maybe more “in-progress” pics. But, when I tripped on some of our back yard pics before we started the addition. Big difference. I do miss having trees and we planning five fruit trees and a big shade tree right by our office. Notice I’m only showing pictures [...]
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When we did our West facing addition with our Nanawall, we always knew we would need to deal with the extreme solar gain. We love the west facing windows at night for the great view of the sky and stars. And, in the winter we even have some mountain views. And, we really love having [...]
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I did a blog post last year about our Nanawall. I wrote that post because I see so many people finding my blog after searching for info on Nanawalls. The funny thing is that at I see at least 5 unique searches every day for Nanawall coming into my blog. So, I thought it might [...]
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One of the things I love most about living in Arapahoe Acres are the homeowners. Our neighborhood is filled with professionals from so many creative professional fields. One of my neighbors in Stacie Smith. In addition to being a mom of three and the ringleader for our last two neighborhood home tours, she is also [...]
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Sometimes I hate to post about something until we’re done with a project. BUT, if I waited until we finish, it might never get posted! We worked on the patio over the Memorial Day weekend. It would be so much better if we had an entire work crew. Here is the progress so far. Here [...]
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Does anyone have beautiful wood beams hidden under layers of paint? Want to do a ton of manual labor to reveal that beautiful wood? If you’re crazy like us, you might want to consider buying our Paintshaver. It was torturous work, but we are so happy with how our beams look in our house now. [...]
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