This week on the blog, we are heading back upstairs to M's bedroom to talk about painting stripes with Frog Tape. It finally feels like this room project is really happening. We may wrap this renovation up, after all. I know that many people complete their DIY projects much faster than we do. Our limited…
For our first meeting with the Lowe's kitchen design team, Andy and I had to bring measurements of our kitchen and our wishlist for the project. We met with our project manager, Janet, and Karen, the team member who would translate our wishlist into their computer program in order to create the layout of our…
This week, I am going to talk about the kitchen again, specifically about Lowe's kitchen design.
We were snowed in on Tuesday. We got so much snow that even Andy took the day off. With him home all day, I was able to spend most of the day in M's room finishing up the prep work.…
We are still in the midst of M's room renovation, but can we talk about the kitchen instead? When I sat down to write this week's post about the bedroom renovation, I realized that there really is no news. Our optimistic deadline of having the room painted last weekend has come and gone. We are…
The room is coming right along, and progress does indeed look like a bunch of polka dots. There are so many tiny imperfections on the walls from the wallpaper scorer, the scrapers and places where sections of paint flaked off. All of these need just a little bit of patch and an overall sanding with…
There is not much to report this week. Due to our schedules, we have had very little time to spend in the room doing the physical work that is required in order to boast about any sort of accomplishment. I spend an awful lot of time in that room in my head, but my hands…