Archive for the 'Operation Renovation' Category

One room down…

Our carpet is here. Our carpet is here. I’m so excited. Can you tell?
Now I’m tripping over rolls of carpet that are laying in the hallway. We have nowhere else to store them until we can get the carpet laid in each of the rooms. Good thing they are wrapped in plastic. I’d hate to [...]

Let there be paint

In Day 2 of Operation Renovate paint was applied. I picked out a beautiful sky blue color. However, I thought it was going to be a little bit lighter. Ok, I thought it was going to be a lot lighter. I so suck at this picking about paint thing. Is there a class I can [...]

Our dirty little secret

I’m going to share something with you. Something I’m not very proud of. But we’re all friends here. Right?
My house is a disaster. I don’t know if you’ve ever let five kids live in your house for an extended period of time, but when kids outnumber parents bad things happen.
When you’re in the shower or [...]

My Very Own Tim “the Toolman” Taylor

I often gripe about how Lee starts improvement projects, but never finishes them. But he really has done a lot to our house. I have a link to “our house” on our homepage, but I can never seem to find time to actually update our website. So in the meantime I’ve decided to dedicate a [...]