When I hopped out of bed this morning and my feet landed on smooth, beautiful hardwood floors, I felt like I was at someone else’s house. Having just returned from a week in Bar Harbor, the floors are still very new and exciting to us.
The endless hours of work have already been forgotten, and we’ve […]
Category Archive: Dining Room
Waking up in someone else’s house
Stripping Woodwork: Fume-Fest ‘06
Yeah, so you know that easy “repaint the dining room” project I mentioned a few days ago? Well, like any fixer-upper undertaking it tripled in size, turning into “repaint the dining room, twice, strip and sand all of the beadboard, and stain it to match the floor”.
It added about 3.5 million hours to our timeline, […]
Painting Tips
Once again, we spent the weekend painting. What can I say - we like color. Alot.
This time, we took the dining room out of the pink and into something a little more natural. After much speculation and a few heated arguments, we decided to paint the top half of the room with Sherwin William’s “Emberglow“, […]

