I have always wanted to be able to walk into my yard and pick strawberries whenever I wanted. I am not sure how many strawberry roots I have bought and planted and only gotten a small numbers of berries from…too many to count. I decided this would be the year I was going to concentrate […]
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You are my sunshine
We decided the bathroom would be gray and yellow with oil-rubbed bronze hardware. I had my mind set that I wanted some flowers and sun something in the bathroom. When the girls were little, I used to sing them “You are my sunshine” a lot. It was also on a CD we wore out, so […]
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This was the super fun part…NOT. I dropped both sinks in and they fit like a glove! I will not tell you ALL about the difficulties with the hardware…but the biggest thing was the distance between the holes for the water lines, and the back of the 2×6 that was supporting the cabinets, was not […]
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As I waited for the mortar and grout to set on the counter, I continued working on the doors and drawer facings. I had these wood knobs, and used a little metallic spray paint and some shellac to make the door knobs. (Taking a break to add the grout.) Putting the doors together. I […]
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The next fun task was putting on the counter top and adding the sinks. I wanted to tile, just because I had this vision in my mind of what the bathroom should look like. The counter had to withstand the weight of tile, so I had to do some research on making sure the support […]
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