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| Published: April 25, 2008, 1:05 am |
| Tags: General, Cleaning Your Blog House, Learn Css, Moving Furniture, Play With Paintshop Pro, Renovating Fracas |
| The banner isn’t quite what I want, and there are font colors and link colors to change, but this is all you get for tonight! I wanted a change. I’m still figuring it out. Is it me? Here is a little bit on mumbo jumbo because I’m trying to play with the font colors and stuff and [...] |
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| Do Nothing - The First Step to Successful Old Home Renovations |
| Published: July 18, 2008, 7:54 pm |
| Tags: Renovating Your Old House, Mold Problems, Old Home Renovations, Structural Issues |
| smart idea to live with the house a bit. In fact, after several remodels, I am thinking about bringing my favorite gardening advice indoors - live with the place for a year before you make any major changes. I don’t know how many times I’ve said, “I wish I would have done x instead of y,” over the past few years because I |
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| Research Your House Before You Begin Restoration |
| Published: July 21, 2008, 2:10 am |
| Tags: Renovating Your Old House, Finding Out Who Lived In Your House, Home Restoration, Research Your House |
| Sometimes, an old house has been so drastically altered over the years that finding out what it used to look like can be a real challenge. Luckily, when you are dealing with a house that has been the home to anyone who was even slightly significant to your area, you have a secret weapon - your local historical society. The society may |
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| Finding Replacement Moldings, Doors, Windows, etc. |
| Published: July 21, 2008, 3:15 pm |
| Tags: Renovating Your Old House, Architectural Salvage Baltimore, Fireplace Mantel, Local Salvage, Maryland Salvage, Restoring An Old Home, Second Chance |
| which seems to add a new warehouse of stuff every time I blink. You can find awesome stuff that was rescued before demolition and they employ low income Baltimore residents, which means that the company name has kind of a double meaning.. If you go, be prepared to spend about three times longer than you planned to be there, because of the time |
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| Make a Master Plan for Renovating Your Old House |
| Published: July 23, 2008, 10:17 pm |
| Tags: Renovating Your Old House, Planning House Renovations |
| create a master plan for house renovations. They think that they know exactly what they are going to do and will remember all of their plans. This method of keeping track of your house renovation tasks leads to house tours like this: “I still have no idea how I ended up with this marble tile in the sun room. And the stairway is not at |
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| Newer Is Not Better With Old House Renovations |
| Published: August 5, 2008, 3:44 pm |
| Tags: Renovating Your Old House, Historic District, Historic District Regulations, Old Home Restoration, Period Renovations, Reproduction Wooden Windows |
| you wonder how much the house value increased with your improvement. With your new vinyl siding project under way, you’ll be looking at major equity in no time, right? Actually, when you are renovating an old house, newer is not always better. In fact, if you are living in an area that is or is about to become a historic district, your |
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