Thursday, January 21, 2010

Garage Door Insulation


Garage Door Insulation.....check!


I decided to add insulation to our garage door in hopes that it will help out with the temperature issue we are having in the room above the garage. All summer long it was miserably hot up there...so much so, that I hardly spent any time in that room (which is saying something, since it's my office and that is where my computer lives). Now that it's winter, we're having the opposite problem. It's 58 degrees in that room in the morning, while it is 70 degrees in the hallway just outside the room.


Easy project, only took about 1-1 1/2 hours (with a little help from Connor).


(fingers crossed that it helps)

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Home Improvement Projects....

So here's the project: update the powder room. And by powder room, I mean that closet-sized bathroom just off the kitchen...you know, the one that all of our visitors use.

Because of its size, there's not a lot that can be done with it, except some color and fixture updates.

What I want to do is paint the walls, re-finish (paint) the vanity cabinet, and update all the fixtures (light, towel ring, faucet).



So here are some before pictures:


Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Snow

Well, we've had our official first real snow "storm" here in our new house. Isn't it pretty.




By the way, have you seen how long and slopey our driveway is?

Thursday, December 3, 2009

Christmas Lights

Just a little something.


Saturday, October 3, 2009

Shutters!

We knew, the first time we saw this house, that we would someday want to replace the white shutters with black shutters. When we got our deposit back from our last place, and were surprised to see that it was more than we expected, we decided we should just go ahead and do it now.

We love how it turned out. It just took a lot of effort (obviously, mostly on DJ's part)






Half-way done.


The best thing of all is being able to look at the Before & After pictures.