Tag: house
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Clutter-free kitchen counters!
One of our goals with the new kitchen was to keep our countertops free of JUNK and general kitchen clutter. Our kitchen is small and mighty, and our counterspace is extremely limited. We were constantly moving things around to free up a clear space for food prep, and the clutter is just mentally stressful. So…
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New Kitchen: the final touches, a coffee bar, and before / after photos!
There are a few other major changes that we made to the kitchen to tie it all together: new appliances, new lighting, a backsplash, and a coffee bar. We chose stainless steel appliances and we’re THRILLED to finally have a dishwasher that doesn’t sound like a motorcycle gang is idling in our kitchen. We picked…
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Farewell to our 90s Kitchen
This year we finally decided to update our kitchen! Our house was built in the 1930s and the kitchen was likely renovated at some point in the 90s (I found a pocket calendar from 1993 stuck behind the countertops – my clue for a timeline guess). We are sure that the kitchen was pretty bitchin’…
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Five Tips to Prevent Flooding in your House
Not everything in Los Rodriguez life is glamorous…actually, there is not that much glamour in our lives, period. We try to highlight the great times, but as Dr. House would say, life isn’t always sunshine and puppies! Up until last Friday it felt like it rained every single day for the past two weeks, which…
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Salute the Staycation
Have you ever had that feeling that you need a vacation from your vacation? That longing for your own kitchen that has everything exactly where it should be, that need for the comfort of your own bed? I’m usually willing to endure the vacation hangover in exchange for breaking our regular routine, seeing some new places…
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More Odds & Some Ends
Beyond the wood floors, we’ve been adding other small details here and there to the house that have certainly made it a warmer, more inviting space. My favorite additions are the gorgeous curtains my mom sewed for our living room and kitchen windows. Our local Hancock’s Fabric Store is going out of business, but before…
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Paint Forever
You can bet your life is pretty chill when the most exciting thing that happens to you over the course of a few days is getting a brand new super vacuum. I don’t know what the normal life span of a vacuum cleaner is, but Javi and I have been using a standard canister vacuum…
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The best yard in the street
When we moved into our house, we quickly learned from the neighbors that the previous owner had the most beautiful yard in the street (key word HAD). We had never taken care of a yard before, so the idea of keeping up with it was a little daunting. We had other priorities in mind: fence,…
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Name the robin!
The growing season continues at Los Rodriguez mansion. The little birds are getting some feathers and they are eating away! Those parents must be working around the clock to get enough worms for these hungry little fellas. La temporada de crecimiento continua en la Mansion Rodriguez. Los pajaritos estan creciendo plumas y comen como locos!…
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Spring Cleaning!
My spring cleaning desperation got the best of me this weekend. Every spring my summer clothes start piling up on the floor, on furniture and on pretty much every surface where they don’t belong. The mountains of clothing start to materialize right around the same time that mountains of homework and assignments pile up. Since nobody is…
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1 year in the Los Rodriguez Mansion
Javi and I have been in our lovely little house in South Inglewood, East Nashville for a year! We closed on the house last April 1 and moved in little by little over the next month. A week after we signed on the house Javi and I drove down to visit my aunt Jane and…
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Around the house
Since I posted about the signs of spring popping up all over our yard, we’ve had a variety of plants and flowers sprout and bloom everywhere. The woman who used to live in our house was an avid gardener and luckily for us she planted flowers that don’t need any upkeep or attention from us.…
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Our gigantic pantry / doggo play room
So with the whole office transformation came a few hitches that we had to solve…like where on earth were we going to put two dressers, a mattress and box spring and a wing back chair and recliner. So we took stock of what we wanted to sell (…which only turned out to be the old…
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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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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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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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