Month: November 2016

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Michelle Kowalski

Kitchen Progress: Bye, Cabinet

After we tore out the drop ceiling, I tricked my parents into staying longer and helping me tear out this built in cabinet. The cabinet had an outlet in it and should have been a nice appliance storage place, but it was blocking access to the refrigerator and made the kitchen feel even more functionally obsolete.

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Michelle Kowalski

Kitchen Progress: Removing a Kitchen Drop Ceiling

We’re traveling back in time to look at this kitchen renovation from start to finish. If you follow me on Snapchat or Instagram, you have seen a lot of this work happen over the past several months. Follow along here for all of the details, starting with removing a kitchen drop ceiling! As you saw in the kitchen before post,

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Michelle Kowalski

The Fence Saga Part 4: Finishing Touches

Congrats, you made it to the final fence post! We left off after Part 3 with all of the panels fully stained. Next, we(mostly my dad, I was moving dirt around) used a circular saw and Sawzall to cut down the posts to be the right height and I added a little extra stain to the top to protect the wood.

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Michelle Kowalski

The Fence Saga Part 3: Installation

Sorry for the delay on part 3, I was processing the election information and needed to crawl into a hole for a while. I’m back now, and after making some donations to the ACLU I’m ready to share more about my fence. While Katie, Nathan, and my mom were staining panels, my dad and I got to work measuring for

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Michelle Kowalski

The Fence Saga Part 2: Staining

Welcome to The Fence Saga Part 2. Part 1 left off with a freshly laminated building permit, a giant pile of dirt, and a mix of old and new fence panels. A couple of the old panels looked salvageable, so I tried a test patch of stain on them to see if it would sort of match the stained fence along

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