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Flooring just arrived. Free swag came with! From lonsown.com. ... Read More »

So the renovation is effecting all but 3 rooms in our house. Since we're moving the vanity to the opposite side of the bathroom, the drain pipe needs to be longer. And a longer drain pipe means more ... Read More »

I'll try to take some pictures and/or video of Ryan, our b-roll camera guy this week while he films the plumber, and will definitely take some pictures/video of the entire crew next time they're ... Read More »

As I mentioned yesterday, Richard needed the space below the floor exposed to run piping through. All this extra work is due to the fact that we're putting the vanity on the opposite side of the room ... Read More »

Not quite. This weekend Collette and I finished demolition of the bathroom. All the tile is gone, plus half of the sheet rock. The tub is gone as well. I'll post pictures soon. Anyway, Richard the ... Read More »

Right now as I type this, Amy Mathews, a producer from the DIY Network, and a camera crew is upstairs using our space to film a commercial/promo for DIY. It's a little 10 second clip of Amy saying ... Read More »

Zeke, Collette's uncle started the electrical work yesterday. We're fortunate to have a licensed electrician in the family, but unfortunately for him he lives in Sleepy Eye, which is a 2 hour drive ... Read More »

Richard, our soon to be plumber, stopped by again this morning to survey the damage. Hopefully he'll be able to provide us with a more accurate quote after getting a better view of the piping, and ... Read More »

This past weekend we started demolition. Being a male I thought destroying stuff would be a lot of fun. It was for about 10 minutes, then after that it reall, really sucked. So for anyone out there

For those who don't know what has been going on in our lives lately let me fill you in. A couple of months ago I was riding the bus into work and was eves dropping on someone's converstation. I