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Before. After.

  My online vintage lighting store.                     My online vintage lighting store.        

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A Dinner…Postponed

I turn 68 today. Fuck.      

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Announcing a New book by Dr. Seuss…

   

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Peel Away…Round Two RESULTS

              It’s official. I am now a Peel Away convert!    

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Peel Away…Round Two

    These two applications will cost a not inconsiderable $100. Yikes. yesterday I ordered a 5-gallon container of Peel Away ($200) from Sherwin-Williams. I hope this will finish the chimney breast.        

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Before. After.

  My online vintage lighting store.                   My online vintage lighting store.        

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Peel Away…RESULTS!

         

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Peel Away

        Pray for me.    

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Wanna Meet My Whirlpools?

    This is year #12 of my owning the Cross House and it feels like a miracle to at long last have some decent appliances in the kitchen. I put them on a 12-month payment plan! The two images are deceiving as they give the indication that the kitchen will be sleek and modern….

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Inching Along

                   

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Before. After.

    My online vintage lighting store.                                                         My online vintage lighting store.        

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727 Mechanic Street, Emporia, KS

Recently I wrote about a house I photographed in 2016 but never posted the images. Well here is another such house! And this story is both tragic, and a classic example of the old saying: No good deed goes unpunished.   I had long been aware of 727 Mechanic. It was adjacent to a sea…

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Mason & Hamlin & Friend

     

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825 Exchange Street, Emporia, Kansas

                                                                                      825 is one of the finest houses in Emporia, yet people drive…

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Inchin’ Along.

The new Master Suite at the carriage house will consist of: Foyer. Spa-style bathroom in the turret room and with two closets. Large walk-in, windowed closet. Linen closet. Bedroom.       The new closet will…of course, dahlink…have a surface-mounted crystal chandelier in the center and will be quite glamorous. I think closets should be…

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Before. After.

    My online vintage lighting store.                                                             My online vintage lighting store.    

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Inching Along

   

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Inchin’ Along

   

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Island Color Suggestions

In my recent post about resuming work on the kitchen, I wrote: “The island will also be blue. What shade of blue I do not know. Suggestions?”                    

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And So The Kitchen Begins

In March, 2021, I presented my super-duper super-revised kitchen plan. I had planned to move ahead with the kitchen, but my order for the island cabinets kept getting OUT OF STOCK notices. After 6 months I cancelled the order. A year later I noticed that the cabinets were now in stock but the prices had…

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