Tag Archive | "remuddling"
Funny!
I just looked at the clock. Aghast! I have wasted 1 entire hour!!! Where? HERE. Lovely Listing. It’s the latest “Cheezeburger” site. Like we needed another one. Egads, i waste enough time on the LOL Cats and LOL Dogs and “There I Fixed It” sites! LOL. This one made me crack up. Uh. FAIL. Do [...]
Continue reading...Old Home Owner’s Malaise
Monday, June 13, 2011
Maybe this is normal. I don’t know. I’m suffering from a severe case of the Old Home Blues. I have absolutely no energy to tackle any projects around here. Not the garden, not all the undone little projects from the kitchen renovation from last summer…. and when I encounter a “new” problem, I just want [...]
Continue reading...WorkWorkWorkWork
Friday, June 4, 2010
Marg, I know you keep telling me to take a break. I promise, I will!! Sometime soon. Actually, things are moving at a slow pace this week. Between the cooking and the laundry and the multitude of household things, and trying to “make do” without a kitchen sink and dryer… plus, working on my job… [...]
Continue reading...Why I Need a New Kitchen
Monday, March 22, 2010
Click the image to enlarge, if you need to. I’m getting nervous. I’m in the process of making a materials list and getting a cost estimate for the new kitchen. Oh dear. It’s adding up! And adding and adding and adding! The flooring alone is going to cost me over $600… and that’s *just* for [...]
Continue reading...I Have Decided
Thursday, December 10, 2009
We’re going to gut the kitchen. Next year, hopefully as soon as the kids finish their school year (if I can wait that long). I cannot STAND this horrible kitchen any longer!! I am going to plan on demolishing the room (26 x 12) sometime in May, with plans on starting to electrify and plumb [...]
Continue reading...I Am Becoming Desperate
Sunday, November 29, 2009
There are days when I feel a very strong urge to just start pulling down walls here. We’ve managed to live with the lack of electricity upstairs, and the endless strings of extension cords throughout the house. But when it comes to this kitchen, I sometimes go tilt. Last week was like that. Our kitchen [...]
Continue reading...Remuddling, In Which I Feel Better…
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
….about my own home’s plight. “Remuddling” is a term that I think was first coined by the magazine editors of Old House Journal. It was a section at the very back of the magazine, a one-page photo and description of a house, submitted by a reader. It was my favorite part of the magazine, because [...]
Continue reading...Nightmare on Elm Streets
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
I just love the Home Inspection Nightmares section at This Old House. Wow. For some reason, looking at these photos makes me feel a whole lot better about my house. I am a little paranoid– I’m afraid the government gestpo will come strorming into my house, throwing me in prison for not having my light [...]
Continue reading...I’m Rebecca
:) I’m a married mom of four teenage children. We live in Upstate New York. We bought an old 1855 home and acre property, over 10 years ago. We've been in the slow, agonizing process of living in the home while (trying) to renovate it. When I'm not renovating, I'm a freelance writer and blogger.
We've learned to dig a French drain, plant huge flower and vegetable gardens, wire a circuit panel, install furnace ducting, understand the enigmatic complexities of the plumbing system, and more. It's been *quite* the adventure.
You can read more about us here, read up on the history of the home, and read about what we've renovated so far. Thanks for visiting!
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