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Office remodel
Reflections on the Home Office Remodel

With the year-long office remodel project behind us, I decided to take last week off from house stuff.  As much as I enjoy working on adding value to my home, it’s important to have some meaningful down time, especially when the project is fairly large.  You don’t want to get burned out with home projects […]

November 24th, 2014
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5 Tips for Better Crown Molding Results

I’m relieved to finally tell you that all of the crown molding has been installed in our home office.  It was a bear.  Granted, I still have to putty all the nail holes, caulk the joints and paint them.  I’ll save that work for the weekend.  That’s not the end of the molding in the […]

June 26th, 2014
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Home Office Update

Believe it or not, it’s been about seven months since we started our home office remodel and we still have a good amount of work left to do.  While we never intended for it to take this long, life has a way of stretching some things out.  Since we starting our office project back in […]

June 22nd, 2014
Coffered Ceiling Framing

In this post you will learn -A unique approach to framing out a coffered ceiling Over the last few evenings, I’ve managed to squeeze in some office work.  Not the typical office work one would expect, but the kind where I’m screwing 2×6’s to my ceiling.  THAT sort of office work.   As of today, […]

February 27th, 2014
Hardwood Floor Installation

Happy 2014!!  We’re back.  Cue the theme music. A few weeks ago, I finished up my last grad school course and headed into the holidays ready to take some much needed time off.  Consequently, we decided to take a blog vacation until the holidays were over.  Hope you missed us. This past week, we kicked-off […]

January 5th, 2014
Our Home Office Ideas

Happy Friday folks! Christmas is less than two weeks away. Hope your shopping and decorating is going well. I have yet to purchase a single item. Pretty par for the course for me though. Today I wanted to start sharing some of our home office ideas. If you follow our Pinterest home office ideas board, […]

December 13th, 2013
The Next Project: Our Home Office

Even though we’re still wrapping up some work in our sitting room (paint and some decor still to-do), we wanted to let everyone know what project we’d be starting after we finish.  We’re psyched to be switching gears soon and finally getting to work on our home office. If you took our home tour, you […]

December 5th, 2013
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