Tag: Home improvement
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Los Rodriguez Office!
So here it is…our beautiful new office! We’ve already told you about the bookshelves, desks and magnetic paint. Here are a few more details about the work we put into this little cozy corner of the house.My original inspiration for the dark blue color came from a Valspar historic colors brochure Javi and I got…
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Easy (inexpensive) DIY book shelves
I mentioned in our last post that I bought a 4 x 8 sheet of MDF and saved the extra material for another project. Well, this is the project…book shelves! Leslie has always wanted a room surrounded with bookshelves full of books…also known as a library. Our new office could not host a full library…
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DIY Inexpensive desks!
Since we wanted to have a new office that we could both use, we needed to have desks for both of us. We would love to have two big old desks with plenty of drawers, leather top, shiny old wood and with a big work area…but those desks usually come with a price tag out…
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DIY Magnetic Keyboard
We have had dozens of fun home improvement / DIY projects going on in the last couple days, which partly explains our absence from posting. We’ve been so busy making our house incredible that it’s become too much of a task to put all of the transformation into one post – there’s literally too much…
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DIY date night
Last Saturday I told Javier I wanted to go out just me and him on a date the following Saturday (as in, last night) since it was our first chance to take advantage of a few gift certificates that my dentist (…for a referral) and Javier’s coworker gave us for Christmas. My dentist sent us…
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Wall of Frames
One of our little decorating projects that we did along with the painting before Javier’s family arrived was putting up photos on the walls. If you can remember how our living room was before the transformation (what a nightmare…), we had zero decorations on the walls. After we painted everything looked much better, but the walls…
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Mansion Makeover
I feel like I’m sitting in a totally different house right now – Javi and I painted our living / dining room!! We started on our anniversary (so romantic…try not to be too jealous of our pizza and beer anniversary dinner) and finished yesterday, just in time for Javier’s parents to arrive. I’m so happy…
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Installing an in-wall timer
Tired of flipping a switch?! Sick of forgetting to turn the outside light?!?! Do you have nightmares about your power bill?!?!?!?! Worry no more with ……. A timer switch!!!! Cansado de mover interruptores?! Aburrido de olvidarse de apagar la luz de afuera?!?! Tiene pesadillas sobre su cuenta de luz?!?!?!?! No se preocupe mas….use un interruptor…
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I hate you mosquitoes – Part II
Finally we have a completed screened in front porch!!! It’s so great to have it finished, working great, and looking good too. In my first post about this DIY project “I Hate You Mosquitos Part I” I showed you the way I decided to install the screens. It was practically the same “technique” throughout the…
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I hate you mosquitoes! – Part I
We wouldn’t be living in the South if we didn’t sit on the front porch in the evening, and we wouldn’t be in the south if we didn’t get eaten alive by mosquitoes every evening we sit on the front porch. We decided we’ve had enough….those little bastards will not stop us from enjoying the…
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The blank electric panel – Panel electrico en blanco
Our backyard has one outdoor light with a mind of its own. Before I (finally) fixed it, it would turn on at the most ridiculous times and of course it refused to work when we needed it. We finally decided to suck it up and get a new light fixture and figure out how to…
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Ice Maker!
When we were shopping for appliances, the main request Leslie had regarding our fridge was an automatic ice maker. She loves her ice – she can’t live without it (she is so gringa! hahaha). So when we got our fridge with ice maker we thought they would install it for us – so dumb, of…
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