Seen that movie? The one where the young innocent ends up where she shouldn’t? Something bad is about to happen, she makes a too-late escape attempt, then realises the door has locked shut. And she’s trapped inside. This is that door – the one she pounds her fists against, screaming in vain. She’s not going [...]
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Ages ago, I received a very thoughtful and earnest email from a home staging professional. It was right after my turquoise paint colour post – and she was begging me to change my mind. The email read: I’m a home stager – don’t cringe, I’m not going to pitch you on my company – and [...]
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So far in our ugly guest post series we’ve been to Racist Granny’s House to see Canada’s most astonishing boob light (thanks to Jan), and we’ve fought cockroaches and fallen through the floor with Jessica. We even went to Minnesota in December – to check out Sally’s ugly great room. Today’s incredible tale of ugly [...]
We dragged home an Ikea Hemnes 6-drawer chest awhile ago, specifically choosing the 100% wood option lest we decide to paint it. (Why would I have Ikea furniture in this apartment if I didn’t paint it? That would mean I’d use free time to read or engage in intellectually stimulating hobbies. And who would want to [...]
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Ever seen a paint brush, tray or roller be cleaned on an HGTV show? It doesn’t happen. So here’s an overdue piece of painting honesty. I’d never have told anybody this, until my brother reacted with uncharacteristic speechlessness. Then I thought… why not make it global knowledge? Renovating an apartment. No outdoor hose pipe. No [...]
Ask me where my keys are. Go on. I know the answer. I know the answer every single second of every single day. THEY’RE IN THE DRAWER!!!! A year’s derailment through chaos and disorder - not always the fault of the apartment renovation. Apartments don’t have obvious foyers or dumping grounds and, previously, all these keep-on-your-person-things would [...]
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Just because it’s shiny doesn’t mean it’s new. Saving money we don’t have is a decent game and winning meant the moved kitchen cabinets were only getting new handles for Christmas. We’d tart them up with some white paint and… the hinges? Ah. The hinges. We’d eagerly bought shiny new hinges before fully studying the [...]
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Last year, we gingerly exhumed the world’s most disgusting drawers and scrubbed them back to life. It was grotty. Easily amongst the top 3 least attractive tasks of this entire project. Ever been frightened by a drawer? Meet My Ugly, filthy, foul & rancid kitchen drawer – does the literature suggest the last time it [...]
Groland sat down in the kitchen. Once there, he stayed in his box for weeks. (And – girls – Groland is heavy. If Groland sits down somewhere and there’s no stronger set of muscles around…. he’s staying there). Before lifelong adoption he needed to earn a boy scout badge in waterproofness and morph from birch to black [...]
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When Paolo and I tried to count the years of neglect, we couldn’t. Had it been three years or six since Bekvam was last fed? Shrugs all around. This was the little kitchen cart that time forgot. Bought in his bachelor heyday, Ikea’s sturdy Bekvam cart weathered all sorts of manly butchery: moose, polar bear, [...]
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