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A staple of DC rowhomes (as well as most rowhomes from the same period elsewhere) is the tradition of hand-painted house numbers in the transom over the front door. A tradition which has sadly been replaced in most “flipped” homes around here with the fine tradition of whatever crappy numbers Home Depot sells nailed to [...]

And you know what, you could justifiably call it a full year and a half from start to finish on this project. Because I started stripping the handrail during Thanksgiving 2010 when our family was here after a friend loaned me his heat gun and I was curious to see how it would work and wanted [...]

I broke down and called the guy who refinished our floors to come and knock out the bannister refinishing project for me. It’s been on my to-do list for probably more than a year…checking….yep, started in April 2011. Wow. This was one of the things we absolutely had to do before the baby gets here [...]

When we were in Atlanta a few weeks ago and stumbled into some extra cash (long story,) Rachel made the fantastic decision to go ahead with something she’d been wanting to do for a while: She went to Joann’s and bought some picture frames for the house. Wait, let me rephrase that. She bought enough [...]