Tag: Home Improvement
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Affordable Beach House for Sale
Beach Front Property For Sale: • 1 Bedroom, 1 Bath • Ocean and River View • Open concept main floor. • Some improvements needed. • Asking price: $1,100,000 In our city, this is considered “affordable housing”.
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The Pillow Problem
I love those insurance commercials where a pretend doctor “Rick” helps young homeowners from becoming their parents, as it that is somehow preventable. These are always based on horrible cliches. I have done EVERY. SINGLE. ONE. I remember one of the early ads where he is removing pillows from a couch that is absolutely covered…
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What We Gain(es)
I saw the Magnolia Magazine in the Market. In it, Joanna Gaines is standing in an old barn-like building with bare wood walls and studs (but not her husband Chip). She is wearing work clothes and heavy boots. Standing in the light from the doorway, she is staring off at some point unknown, meaningfully. What…
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I’m 25 steps into a 12-step program
Alcoholics Anonymous has 12 steps to stop drinking; Target has 26 steps that makes you start drinking. Norm forgive me, for I have shimmed.
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16 Palms
It’s June and therefore it is the time for the ritual known as the Annual Trimming of the Trees. Monk Robes are involved.
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Bad House Day
We were having dinner with our friends Kory and Suzie the other day, discussing all of the house flipping in our neighborhood. All of these houses are being “Magnolia-d” in black and white, including painting the roof tiles black. My wife astutely observed that once the next rain comes, these houses will look like Rudy…
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That Shiplap Has Sailed
With all of this “work at home” stuff, I am getting to see a lot of my co-workers homes (we need a new term—home-work is for students, not adults). This is not a complaint. It is actually fairly refreshing to see folks in their open-concept workstations, by which I mean their living rooms, guest rooms…
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