David has been toiling away at finishing the new hardwood floors in our 100+ year-old house. Originally, we were hoping to find wonderful flooring underneath the layers of carpeting and tile, but sadly, that wasn’t the case. So, we had to buy new flooring and decided on Natural Hickory. We really wanted to choose a North American hardwood [...]
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Get Floored: Part III
Posted in Home, Home Improvement, How To, tagged dining room, finishing hardwood flooring, Get Floored: Part III, hardwood flooring in living room, hardwood floors, hickory, Hickory flooring, how to install hardwood floors, install hardwood floors, kitchen, living room, natural hickory floors, water based sealer on August 20, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Get floored: Part II
Posted in Home, Home Improvement, How To, tagged dining room, hardwood flooring in living room, hardwood floors, hickory, Hickory flooring, how to install hardwood floors, install hardwood floors, kitchen, living room, natural hickory floors on July 29, 2009 | 2 Comments »
We rented the flooring nailer again and completed the installation of the Hickory hardwood flooring. The nailer attached to a small air compressor and made the job much easier than using the older, non-compressed nailers. Near walls and in tight spots where we didn’t have enough room to use the nailer, David used a regular nail gun (again attached to [...]
We’re composting
Posted in Gardening, How To, tagged compost bin, how to build a compost bin on July 22, 2009 | 2 Comments »
We built a compost bin! Here, we were setting the posts. To make the bin, we used leftover wood and materials, so some additional prep work was required.
In this image, I was priming the wood. Then, I used the exterior paint that was leftover from the garage. So the compost bin will blend in!
David put [...]
Get floored
Posted in Home, Home Improvement, How To, tagged dining room, hardwood flooring in living room, hardwood floors, hickory, Hickory flooring, how to install hardwood floors, install hardwood floors, kitchen, living room, natural hickory floors on July 16, 2009 | 6 Comments »
We actually got down on our knees and began installing the Hickory hardwood floors last weekend. David’s friend, Scott, came over to help give us the boost and moral support to start the big job. We had completed the floor prep work some time ago and had been walking over flooring bundles for weeks!
We rented a nailer [...]
Hickory Dickory Dock…
Posted in Home, Home Improvement, How To, tagged dining room, hardwood flooring in living room, hardwood floors, hickory, Hickory flooring, how to install hardwood floors, install hardwood floors, kitchen, living room, natural hickory floors, prep work to install hardwood flooring on June 30, 2009 | 2 Comments »
…the mouse ran up the clock. Well… our situation doesn’t follow the nursery rhyme, but our Hickory hardwood floors are unbundled, fully acclimated to the temperature, and ready to be installed. We plan on working this coming weekend on this project and hope that the 3-day weekend will allow us enough time to accomplish most [...]
Homemade laundry detergent
Posted in How To, Living, tagged homemade laundry detergent on June 24, 2009 | 6 Comments »
No, I’m not trying to be Martha Stewart… but since I wrote a post about Selestial Soap, a local eco-friendly laundry soap, I received a homemade laundry detergent recipe from an old friend. So, I decided to try it out. The ingredients are pretty simple (I picked all of the supplies up at Tom’s grocery store):
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Garage overhaul
Posted in Home, Home Improvement, How To, tagged diy, garage remodel, Home Improvement on May 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Our garage was in need of a major overhaul when we bought our house last year. Here, the garage is pictured on the day we moved in.
The first thing we did upon moving in was to begin painting the garage, since it was to be ‘renovation central’.
Next we scraped, primed and painted the garage’s exterior. [...]
How to install floor tile
Posted in Home, Home Improvement, How To, tagged backsplash, diy, Home Improvement, how to install tile, kitchen remodel, lay tile, natural slate tile, Stanley Complete Tiling on May 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Our cute house on 8th Street was in major need of a kitchen overhaul (as I wrote about previously.) Both David and I had never tiled before. David did all of the research and consulted with the book, Stanley Complete Tiling, for advice. After mulling over the selections at the various tile stores, we ended up choosing [...]
How to build radiator covers
Posted in Home, Home Improvement, How To, tagged diy, home remodeling, house radiator, how to build radiator covers, radiator cover on March 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Our house on 8th Street had wonderful hot-water heat. Our 1000 sq ft heated up quickly with our 6 radiators, but they were a bit on the unsightly-side. So we got to work to create some radiator covers to spruce things up a bit!
Here are 2 of the radiator cover in progress without paint.
A metal sheet was installed behind the [...]
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Appreciating Life Up North is a look into my interests and love of life in Traverse City, Michigan. I aspire to live simply, support local businesses, embrace ‘green’ living and try to enjoy every minute of it.
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