Tag: diy
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2024
To our home’s successor, We are finally catching up to current events… in 2024, with very little liquid assets to do any projects, we did what we could. We had quite an opening left on the enclosed wall in the parlor where the sliding door had been and we did not have great working heat…
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2023 porch part 3
In April 2023, decking layout began. M and I helped with this install in May when we took a staycation. It was incredibly fun to help on this and know that we played a small part in our big project. We did a hidden fastener installation with a Camo Marksman. After the crew did some…
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The Porch begins
To our home’s successors, In September 2022, after more than a year of waiting, our contractor team started on demolition and discovery. The porch project as a whole expanded into several projects and a much longer timespan that anyone expected. Our team started by removing the ceilings, they were meticulous and slow as to be…
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2022 self- performed
To our home’s successors, With our major project on deck for the year, we tried our best to stay motivated and accomplish a few projects on our own as well. We started on some low hanging projects that were mostly aesthetic. We had shifted primary rooms in 2021 which gave us ‘his and hers’ closets…
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2021
With 2020 spent primarily in global lockdown, many factories were then behind on production and often short staffed when they were finally able to reopen. The limited supply meant high costs for materials… just in time for us to do a major project… With this as our outlook, we decided to take it as easy…
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Beginning the Kitchen
To our home’s successors, With Covid not appearing to be going anywhere, and with so much loss, we knew we would want to end our year on a good note, and continue with our wedding plans, which would probably mean having immediate family celebrate with us at our home. With this in mind, our focus…
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2020 isn’t what we expected
To our home’s successors, Riding high on 2019, we went into 2020 with some big visions. Unfortunately in the spring of 2020, the world was put into shutdown with the Covid19 pandemic. We were both equipped to work from home which could have provided us with significantly more time to work on projects, however, I…
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First big yard cleanup
To our home’s successor, 2019 was the year of low-budget street appeal. With some major electrical work underway, we decided to commit ourselves to tackling the yard. The entire property was and still is extremely overrun with invasive species. The hedgeline along the street was extremely overgrown and consisted of some MAJOR bittersweet vines that…
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Downstairs bathroom
To our home’s successor, We spent the first couple years exclusively using the downstairs bathroom as it was in a better state than the upstairs bathroom despite it’s inconvenience. After showering several times, we started to notice the state of the walls. There was (and at this time, still isn’t a ventilation system in either…
Letters to our House Successors 