The dirty job of removing blown-in insulation in our cottage bathroom ceiling was a lesson we hope that you don’t also have to learn! Recently, we had the attic insulated with blown-in insulation. Yet some of the light fixtures in the bathroom were not centered correctly. So if you would try to move them it would be difficult since there…
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Dirty Job of Removing Blown-In Insulation in Cottage
Learning How to Start a Simple Garden at Our Little Pine Cottage
Learning how to start a simple garden at our Little Pine Cottage may have seemed crazy at the time since we were still living in renovations! Like I even had time to take on another project! I know I’m crazy that way! While all these projects were happening around our house and we were living in it, I decided to…
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Prepping the Cottage for HVAC Installation and Figuring Out How to Design Our Small Space
Prepping our cottage for HVAC installation and figuring out how to design our small space was exciting yet posed some unique challenges! PREPPING FOR HVAC INSTALLATION We were finally getting our HVAC unit installed! Before that could happen, Nate had to prep the outside and inside of our little cottage. He started by sanding the siding in the area where…
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Working on the Siding and Antique Cast Iron Sink
Working on the siding and antique cast iron sink came with many frustrations and didn’t seem to go as we had planned. We had certainly come a long way on our renovations! At this point we were tying up loose ends on various projects such as working on the siding, monitoring our new landscape swale, and finding a home for…
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Dry Fitting Antique Cast Iron Sink for the First Time
Dry fitting our antique cast iron sink for the first time in our handmade kitchen was such a surprise and very exciting! I stepped outside of my bedroom office as I was working from home. Nate surprised me by setting up our old antique cast iron sink as a placeholder. He placed it right under the window in the kitchen…
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