Category: Home Improvement
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The End is Nigh
They clear pine floors are 95-year old. Soft wood cut into milled 4-inch widths laid east to west throughout the top of the house. Chipped, stripped and beaten to the point where gravity and the floor joists have decided determined their current state. Hidden under cheap carpet for a period of time, their real story has been…
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The Shower Beer
We called it the four corners room because it has four corners—four corners and six doors. It is the space in the house between the bedroom, Erin’s office, the bathroom and the kitchen. It is exactly 6-feet long by 5-feet with two small closets. It’s the kind of room that we walk through 200 times…
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The 1918 Remodel Starts
We’re in the middle of remodeling out home. We live in the Sugarhood. This of course is the tail end of Sugarhouse. I think my greatest coup was getting the DMV to get my city address as Sugarhouse even though we live on the very furthest end of the designated area. Something about sugar beets…
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Hashtag Hacky
Lord, oh Lordy, it’s been awhile! The blog has been down. The podcast is dead. My mid-section grows and my hair is thinning. I’m looking more and more like Peter Boyle without the sex appeal. Fortunately, my fair Irish skin has gotten every ray of UV in the 801 and my forehead is a beautiful,…
Ben Raskin 