LR and Mr. Burt have done more to improve their house in the past week than they have in the past year. It all started last Sunday night, when the search on Craigslist for a Nintendo Wii led to a whim to look for dining room furniture turned up the perfect set, never used [...]
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Before and After
It’s difficult to put into words just what the situation with the Burt Guest Bathroom is. It’s also rather difficult to put into pictures. But I post pictures anyway, so you can at least see that the blue apples are gone. That, at least, is improvement.
The bathroom before DIY With LR. Well — as you [...]
The only apples worth having are Granny Smiths and computers
Everything that could have gone wrong did.
I speak of painting over the pink floral and blue appled wallpaper in the guest bathroom.
Sunday I primed. A quart of prime was supposed to cover a 10×10 room. Our bathroom is much smaller than 10×10. Even though I only applied a very thin coat of primer, I ran [...]
The Not-So-Secret Garden
When I posted my last batch of pictures, we hadn’t moved the piano from my parents’ house. Now we’ve got it, and we bought that lovely red art print to fill the blank spot between the piano and TV cabinet. You’d think from the art over the piano that we’re cat lovers, but we don’t [...]
The only thing we have to fear is…
…Johnson grass.
Seriously. You’ve never seen roots till you’ve seen Johnson grass. Each blade practically is a root. It’s capable of choking out every living thing on the planet, but you never even know it’s there till you weed your own garden.
It’s a lot of work, gardening, but well worth it. I’m not sure if I’ve [...]
