The House
What will our love nest look like?
The posts below are about the planning and building of our love nest.
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One discounted tile at a time: the bathroom
Personally, I don’t understand why people what huge bathrooms, or two his/hers sinks (or other non-herteronormative equivalents). Things I want in my bathroom are warmth, light, and a towel within reach. And to not
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Certified pre-dented truck
As Richard said, we just bought a truck. A certified pre-dented truck. It is also canary yellow. Or perhaps 35mph-turn-ahead-sign yellow. Or perhaps daffodil yellow. And let’s hope it’s not lemon yellow. Here’s
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It’s Truck Time!
There was hemming… There was hawign… Gears shifted and grinded and then it happened. We bought a truck! A truck has been one of our major house-related purchases that we knew needed to be
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Light Switches
You know one thing I never expected to disagree with Kori about on this project? Light switches. But we found ourselves at an interesting impass a few weeks back and it led to some
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Latest House Plan Update
Here’s a visual update to our latest house plans. We have played with dimensions a lot moving things around as we placed windows, and debated the fine points of deck size and commode gappage.
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Making Stakes
Today I decided to make some stakes for marking out various locations on the property. Locations that need to be marked include the septic field, well, driveway, and house. 3 ft. Pine Grade Stakes
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Under-Counter Appliances
We got our first appliance and drum-roll …… its a microwave !!!!! Why am I so excited? Because this isn’t just any old microwave – its an under-counter microwave. A what you ask? Let
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Closets? Scmosets!
One of our newsletter subscribers (you have subscribed have you not – click here) asked a very astute question the other day – where are the closets? It’s a good question and one I’m
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The Floorplan
It has come to our attention that we don’t have a floorplan of our house yet. But wait – we do !!!!! Below is our current plan which results in about a 900 sq.
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Windows !
Our first purchase for the new home is complete and it’s …. WINDOWS !!!! Kori and I rolled down to our local Habitat for Humanity ReStore (ReStore) because they were having a 25% off
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First contoured sitemap
Today I finally got contour data imported into Revit and was able to create a 3D sitemap. Below is the first picture I’ve created showing the sloped hill, flattened area for driveway, and the
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Man is the only animal to borrow tools
Today we joined the Denver Tool Library. This is really a very cool option for those who need use of a variety of tools but don’t have the space, money, or allowance of a