Tuesday, December 25, 2007
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
A Fixer Upper
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This place needed a lot of work. Those horrible bushes out front just had to go. We put in some nice plants in their place including a small apple tree as seem right on the corner of the house.
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The wood on the windows were falling apart and all the blinds were broken. The walls all needed to be scrubbed clean and painted; the carpets were ripped up and smelled terrible. We ripped that out and re-did the wood floors.
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We love the red and yellow in this room. The new windows are great too; every window in the whole house got replaced and new curtains replaced those plastic blinds.
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This is the computer room, where Steven's animation desk and the rest of his stuff resides.
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This was the grimiest, most disgusting room in the whole house. We scrubbed it clean, gave it a nice paint job and Jeni's brother Richard re-tiled both the kitchen and the bathroom.
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Nice new tile floor, new toilet, new sink, new mirror, and new lights. It's like a whole new room. In fact, the whole place is like a new house -- it's so much different than how we found it.
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