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I can’t remember when I first painted a room, but I was pretty young. Finding out that I was capable of improving my surroundings, and realizing how gratifying that is for me, was probabl...
I’ve always pined for a mud room—they seem like such remarkably efficient spaces for collecting coats, boots, sneakers, backpacks… all the clutter that drives me nuts when I see it piled ...
We are so close to finished I can almost taste the ice. It’s been more than seven months since this project began, and although conventional wisdom is that it’s smart to do a kitchen in t...
We finally hit the milestone we’ve been waiting for: the countertop is in!This was a big one—the finish line has been in sight, but unreachable, until now. Everything that needed to be do...
I overheard a snippet of dialogue on TV the other night, in which a woman mentions that a marathon is exactly 26. 2 miles long. To which her companion jokingly replies, “Sure, anyone can ...
Anyone who embarks on a large-scale renovation like our kitchen project worries about it—it’s a huge expense and a major investment in time, with consequences you’re going to live with fo...
Since the beginning of our kitchen renovation, we’ve had a running joke about a rogue quarter inch—we’re either missing it, or we're over by that much, at virtually every turn. But it’s a...
“This is how my father taught me to do it,” said Joe Salamone with a grin, looking proudly at our newly finished patio. “I don’t know how to do it any other way. ”It’s a good bet that he ...
We had started our kitchen renovation project in early March, so the early stages were hampered by the predictable weather that comes with any northeastern spring. I was glad we could mak...
When we bought our house in 1999 (right), one of the things we did before we even moved in was to upgrade the electrical wiring. Overhead fixtures that operated on pull-chains got wall sw...
