Prepping a house for sale can be a huge undertaking. There are little issues you live with everyday that become very obvious and there are the obvious projects you’ve been putting off until a later date. Suddenly, “later” is now and you are faced with a To-Do list 8 pages long. Or maybe that is … Read More
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The Great Home Purge 2018
I have been absent from my blog…and from normal life activities, recently, because Hubba and I have been purging, purging, purging our home in preparation for a 1000 mile move. I knew we had a lot of “stuff”, but, I was in denial as to just how much stuff we had!! I have been living … Read More
Doing a Deck Over
It is nearing the end of June, and we have a tentative plan to market our house in August. We have quite an extensive list of updates that need to be completed prior to listing. One of the largest projects we need to tackle is freshening up our tired wood deck. After Hubba and I … Read More
Painting Roughed-In Stairs
I know it isn’t a sexy title, but I wanted it to convey just what is being written about here, which is how I am tackling the painting of the roughed-in, knotty pine, builder-grade stairs in our home. This is just Part One – the backstory, prep and first layers of paint. It has been … Read More