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- Tell us about yourself:
- In the midst of restoring a 1924 American Four-Square home with a circa 1930 storefront addition. I am a musician at heart and an office manager to pay the bills.
- Tell us about your Arts & Crafts house experiences and dreams:
- After moving to the Buffalo, NY area, I became more familiar with the Arts and Crafts style, having one of the more prominent and influential communities right here (East Aurora, NY & the Roycroft campus). I like a wide variety of architectural styles, but when I was looking for a house to purchase, I wanted to be in a specific neighborhood, and had a particular price range. The house I found is a Four-Square with an Arts & Crafts interior. While I don't want to live in a museum-caliber restoration, I am renovating the house with deep respect for the craftsmen who designed and built it originally.
Karan Andrea's Blog
The Value of a Good Tool
Posted on December 17, 2010 at 12:53pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
I was at Lowe's over the summer looking at tile saws. I have two big tile projects to do in my house - the kitchen and bathroom - and if I add another bathroom later as planned, that will be a third. I wanted to get a tile saw instead of renting one for many reasons, not the least of which is that if I rent one, I will spend as much or more on renting the thing than I would if I just bought a good one.
So, back to my opening sentence. I was at Lowe's over the summer looking at tile…
Continue The Upstairs Rooms: In Color
Posted on December 17, 2010 at 12:52pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
We still have a few things left to finish - installing the ceiling fans, putting on the outlet covers, tiling the bathroom - but it has been quite the haul just to get to the point where the walls are painted, the floors are finished, and most of the baseboard and shoe mold is installed. I'm too happy about getting to this point, so I'm posting photos...
BATHROOM
This is the bathroom floor - stained and finished. We had to put a dark stain…
Curb Appeal
Posted on December 17, 2010 at 12:51pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
Late in the day on Labor Day, a car drove by my house, slowed, stopped, and the driver leaned out the window. "Thank you! It looks great," he said. Car after car, neighbor after neighbor driving by, walking by - their first words were "thank you."
Much of the work I have done on my house has been inside, so even though I have done a great deal of work that has improved the property, very little has been visible from the outside. And let's face it - my house is, well, in a word, ugly.…
Continue Holy Cow! There's a Bobcat in My Driveway!
Posted on December 17, 2010 at 12:50pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
Many developments in these last weeks. Sanding, cleaning, priming, plating, excavating, concrete, water diversion. I can't believe how much
we've accomplished in so little time.
We finally finished the sanding, hallelujah! We were all tired, happy, and incredibly sore. So the next weekend, we rounded up wash buckets and rags and after vacuuming the entire upstairs - every blasted surface - walls, ceilings, woodwork, floors, radiators (amazing how much dirt those buggers can…
ContinueComment Wall (1 comment)
- At 6:35pm on December 16, 2010,
Nathan Winter said… Welcome, Karan!
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