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Today Clair and Larry came to install the basement kitchen cabinets. This is the main wall. There will be a sink in the middle, and you can see the small fridge already in its place. The upper, middle section has accessories to hold stemware glasses.   The kitchen is a galley style with a walk-way […]

We thought our new trees were being delivered tomorrow, so we were quite surprised when we came home at lunch and found this in our driveway.   They started digging the holes and getting everything set to plant them.   While I was documenting trees, I thought I would update you on our Japanese maple. […]

They finished planting the row of trees today. There are 10 in total. It is kind of hard to see with the neighbor’s house and other trees behind them, but this gives you a pretty good idea. They are actually decent size trees. There are a red wood maple and will turn dark red in […]

Today Nathan picked up our new dining room rug. It is 8’x12′, cream colored, and has an all-over scroll pattern. We got a great deal on it at Carpet Liquidators since it was a remnant.   The dining room table we ordered is 48″ x 84″ standard, but we got leafs for it where it […]

Nathan and my dad worked all day and got our front landscaping all finished up. I think it looks great. It will certainly look a little better when everything starts blooming and opening up, but I really like the layout. It actually ended up being exactly like my Photoshop sketch with the addition of the […]

We’re supposed to have some nice weather tomorrow, so Nathan decided to switch his day off from Friday to tomorrow in order to work on the landscaping. This all meant that we needed to have plants picked out by tomorrow. So he and I took a few hours off today to go look at plants. […]