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HOUSE: Newburgh

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    Japanese maple in the garden.

    Yay! Something is now intentionally growing in the back garden! My mother and I planted this Fireglow Japanese Maple in the garden yesterday. It’s beautiful! I love Japanese Maples. We bought the…

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    Door Sixteen.

    We bought these door numbers back in November, but I didn’t get around to mounting them until this weekend. What a difference it makes! No more telling people to look for the…

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    Bathroom accessory planning.

    With only one day to go before the guy comes to install the marble hex tiles (a 4-day process, apparently), I’m starting to move a little closer to picking out the finishing…

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    Clean slate (dirt, plywood).

    My mother and I spent a couple of hours clearing out all of the remaining weeds and grass in the garden. I feel so inspired! She also helped me to come up…

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    New fence & new/old chairs.

    Look! It’s a fence! We knew we couldn’t do it ourselves, so we broke down and paid someone to come and install a fence for us. It makes a massive difference, despite…

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    Scavenged faux-Saarinen table.

    Even though we’ve driven by Hudson Valley Office Furniture in Newburgh dozens and dozens of times since we moved here, we never took the time to go in until last week. What…

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    Plumbing? In the bathroom? Really?

    Yes, really! The roughing-in work is FINALLY done on the upstairs bathroom. Everything incoming and outgoing has been replaced, so even though this photo doesn’t look beautiful, this is serious progress. This…

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    New bedspread.

    Every now and then IKEA comes along with a textile design that just knocks me out. Such is the case with the new blanket from the SOMMAR range, designed by Maria Vinka.…

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