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Progress Upstairs
Moving past this weekend’s disappointing setbacks, yesterday we focused on our successes downstairs. Lets move up to floors 1-3 today. Saturday was another Family Team effort. Best parents ever. And cousin (Mike). Mom A. cleaned our 2nd floor bathroom. It … Continue reading
Successes
This past weekend we hit some pretty disappointing snags but the weekend wasn’t a complete wash. We managed to get several productive things done. Here’s what happened downstairs – While tile in the garden apartment took 4 steps backward, the … Continue reading
Posted in garden unit
Tagged basement, cable, electric, electrical, garden apartment, newark, nj, paint, painting, renovation, row home, row house, rowhome, shower, shower surround, surround
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Setbacks & Realizations
Another weekend spent working on the house closer to being done closer to moving less than we had before This weekend brought a mixed bag of outcomes. We made progress in certain areas but faced disappointing setbacks in others. Two … Continue reading
Plaster Washers: Round 3
Finally some success with the plaster washers! After our experience in the bedroom & parlor I was starting to lose hope. Before we purchased the plaster washers, I spent some time groping our walls to find the squishy spots. I … Continue reading
Posted in 3rd floor, bedrooms
Tagged before, fix, fixing plaster, newark, nj, old plaster, paint, painting, plaster, plaster washers, problem, renovation, row home, row house, rowhome, sand, solution, spackle, washers
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How to Paint a Medicine Cabinet
I have plenty of pictures of the garden apartment basement before. But for some reason, I don’t have one at an angle that includes the medicine cabinet/vanity mirror actually in the wall. My dear mother-in-law removed it for us during … Continue reading
New Kitchen Wall!!
All the way back in early June, we learned how to rip out drywall and haven’t touched the basement kitchen much since then. During our big Basement Demo Day, we learned that the gas pipe to the stove was wobbly … Continue reading
Posted in garden unit, kitchen
Tagged cleaning, drywall, electric, electrical, newark, nj, outlets, renovate, renovating, renovation, row home, row house, rowhome
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Master Plaster
Round 2 with the plaster washers came when faced with a large crack in the plaster of our master bedroom wall. Well, one of the walls. This one, to be precise. I started securing the plaster along the crack with … Continue reading
Posted in 3rd floor, bedrooms, work weekend
Tagged bedroom, drywall, electric, electrical, lathe, newark, nj, outlets, plaster, renovation, row home, row house, rowhome, wall
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Kitchen Cabinet
Yes, singular cabinet. The garden apartment kitchen is only 10′ long. We’ve got to fit a fridge & 24″ stove plus 2 base cabinets along the one wall. I came across 6′ of cabinets for FREE on craigslist back in … Continue reading
Posted in garden unit, kitchen
Tagged cabinet, cabinets, craigslist, kitchen, newark, nj, paint, painting, refinishing, renovation, row home, row house, rowhome, white, wood
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The Parlor Wall
Our house was built sometime in the 1880’s (we think). Construction at the time was all about lathe smothered in horse hair plastery goodness. Lets start at the beginning. If you were to look at a cross-section of our walls, … Continue reading
Our Clean Kitchen
I know we said the kitchen was crossed off the list. And it is, in that it will not be getting any structural altering anytime soon. That said, we just couldn’t live with its current state of cleanliness. The kitchen … Continue reading
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