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  • More tiling progress + two renovation rules.

    I feel like I’m just going to start every post about the kitchen renovation the same way: These photos are terrible. I’m sorry. The good news is that they make last week’s…

  • Kitchen tiling progress!

    I said I was going to tile, and by golly, I tiled! Oh, what a weekend. I wanted to get these photos up yesterday, but I’m so achy that even editing photos…

  • Weekend to-do.

    Photo taken by Captain W. F. Wood of the S. S. Etonian on April 12, 1912 (via Bidtracker) I saw this photo a few days ago when a coworker linked to an…

  • Kitchen planning. For real this time.

    1. “Triangles” wallpaper by Lisa Congdon for Hygge & West. As I mentioned recently, I am dying to use Lisa’s new wallpaper in the kitchen. I’m planning to cover the top half…

  • Oh yeah! The garden.

    So, the last time I posted an update about progress in the garden at our house was in August. August 2010, that is. I really don’t know what my problem is. I…

  • Back to Brooklyn.

    We arrived in Brooklyn late last night after getting word that electricity had been restored to our apartment building. The elevators were still out which meant we had a long hike up…

  • The next day.

    This is the final set of photos I took before leaving Brooklyn last night. Our building in DUMBO is still off-limits per the FDNY—extensive flooding everything on the lower levels means must…

  • Sandy, during.

    I’m exhausted, so this update will be brief! So…Sandy came. I took photos on the roof deck of my apartment every couple of hours (I stopped going out there when it got…

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