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After doing one massive whole house renovation in my previous home (AKA The Queen Anne), I really got to know what I like and what I don’t like. For the The Manse renovation, I decided to do the floor plan myself (how hard could it be?). I found a basic CAD program online and began […]
When we moved into The Manse, my daughter’s room didn’t need much work. There was no carpet to lift and we could live with the wallpaper temporarily. The 184 year old floors were good enough to leave alone until we pulled the big trigger. While the closet was quite large, the opening to it was […]
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Once I finished the plan for the patio, I couldn’t wait for Spring to get the work going. Right after the reno, the contractor planted grass as a temporary fix since it was already Fall, and I wanted some time to finalize what we wanted to do. The other issue was we wanted to combine this […]
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