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Young House Love » Archives for November 2007

Archives for November 2007

| By Sherry Petersik | November 29, 2007 | 100 Comments

Full Laundry Makeover With 4 Simple Things

We created a clean, organized and functional laundry center that looks amazing on a serious budget. Here’s what we did and how we did it.

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Filed Under: Decorating, Favorites, Home Improvement, Our First House

| By John Petersik | November 28, 2007 | 20 Comments

Playing Architect With Floorplanner (Making 2D House Plans)

We’ve finally found a way to show off the changing layout of our house without actually inviting everyone over for a visit (although we’re always happy to give tours). The other day I was browsing RemodelingMySpace.com and saw a link to some free (!!) software called Floorplanner, which they had reviewed as an easy-to-use tool for creating 2D house plans. They also showcase software like Plan 3D and Google SketchUp if you’re looking to do more involved, 3D drawings. But I’m starting slow… Last night I cranked away on two very different floor plans: our old layout, and our almost-there new layout. Check each of them out below, but ignore the square footage and other

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Filed Under: Home Improvement, Our First House, Project Planning

| By John Petersik | November 27, 2007 | 2 Comments

Special Delivery

The cabinets arrived yesterday. Woohoo! The initial excitement of seeing the Kraftmaid 18-wheeler roll up outside was momentarily replaced by a fear that we hadn’t cleared enough temporary storage space for the boxes. Fortunately the truck wasn’t full. But I can’t say the same for our living room after the Kraftmaid guys finished moving box after box through the front door. So how does a box-filled living room turn into a cabinet-filled kitchen? First, our Home Depot project manager shows up today to inspect the delivery and make sure nothing is missing or damaged. Assuming nothing is awry (knock on wood, er, Thermofoil) the HD installer will start assembling the kitchen next Monday, Dec 3rd.

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Filed Under: Our First House

| By John Petersik | November 26, 2007 | 4 Comments

City Slickers

After sitting in 9.5 hours of holiday traffic, we’re finally home from our whirlwind Thanksgiving weekend in New York. After a Thanksgiving gathering in Long Island followed by another family feast on Friday in New Jersey, we tackled New York City on Saturday to enjoy our old home turf. Between the two of us we lived in NYC for 8 years (in 10 different apartments and 3 different boroughs) before retreating south to my home state of VA. And the only time we lived even remotely close to each other was in Astoria, Queens. Which would’ve been great if we’d known each other then- and it hadn’t been 2 years apart. Details, details… So we

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Filed Under: Road Trips & Travel

| By Sherry Petersik | November 24, 2007 | 22 Comments

How To Define An Eating Area With A Pendant Light

Do you have a large living room that could accommodate a dining area? Just drop in a pendant light and add a dining table for a multifunctional space that looks like it belongs there.

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Filed Under: Decorating, Our First House

| By John Petersik | November 20, 2007 | 3 Comments

Why We Chose KraftMaid Cabinets

Last week we got the call. Our cabinets are on their way! They’re arriving on Monday the 26th- which means we’re finally able to schedule all the installation details. So now it’s looking like we’ll have a kitchen before the end of the year. Happy New Year to us. When we first walked into Home Depot eons ago (i.e. September) we knew two things about our cabinets: we wanted white and we wanted KraftMaid. White because, duh, our dream kitchen says so. KraftMaid because our friend who works for a home decorating magazine swears by them. They’re close to the most expensive cabinet brand both Home Depot and Lowe’s carry, but Nancy Kulik CKD agreed

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Filed Under: Our First House

| By John Petersik | November 16, 2007 | 3 Comments

Finally Fall

Feels like it has taken a while for autumn to hit Richmond, but it’s finally here in full force. Its late arrival probably means it won’t be long ’til all the yellows, oranges and maroons are replaced with brown and more brown, so we were sure to capture the fall colors on film while we could. Enjoy!

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Filed Under: Our First House

| By Sherry Petersik | November 14, 2007 | 5 Comments

Updating Our Bathroom (Third Time’s The Charm)

To be honest, our bathroom probably needs a total remodel (or at least a new tile job and sink), but we thought a refresher was all we could handle during our lengthy (and expensive) kitchen remodel. So we decided (well, I decided, and then coerced John) to paint the blue walls a soothing tan, and to graduate from a dorm room shower curtain (made of plastic) to a fancy-schmancy fabric one (in a grown up white waffle pattern). We also thought it was time to remove our beast of a medicine cabinet (which actually had two lights coming out of the sides of it like arms) and replace it with an updated medicine cabinet with

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Filed Under: Our First House

| By Sherry Petersik | November 12, 2007 | 20 Comments

Making An Easy Dropzone On A Small Wall

We made a mudroom in an empty corner on the cheap and in only a few minutes. It really is easy and you can do it too!

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Filed Under: Cleaning, Organizing, & Eco, Our First House, Shopping & Thrifting

| By John Petersik | November 11, 2007 | 7 Comments

Turning Vacation Photos Into Art

With a house full of newly painted neutral walls, we’re psyched to have plenty of rooms begging for some art. So hopefully you’ll start to see several posts about good artsy-fartsy finds. We’re starting with a John & Sherry original. When we went on our Alaskan honeymoon in July we took tons of memorable photos, including the one below during a private seaplane flight to a remote volcano several miles outside of Anchorage (yep, I said volcano in Alaska). That field of blue and black in the foreground is a glacier speckled with deposits of volcanic ash. Definitely not something you see everyday. On a whim, I desaturated the pic in Photoshop to see what

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Filed Under: Our First House

| By John Petersik | November 9, 2007 | 6 Comments

Hunting For Granite For Our Kitchen Remodel

Do you ever feel like there are too many options in the world? If so, DO NOT attempt to pick out new counters. Or just make sure you’ve got a wifey with extensive internet research skills. (And if you don’t, hands off – this one’s mine). Here’s what I learned from Sherry’s quick crash course. Laminate and marble were immediately out of the question. We already had laminate and wanted to upgrade to something more natural and less plastic-y. And as gorgeous as carrera marble can be (we loved it in our inspiration kitchen), it eliminated itself from the mix thanks to being much too expensive (about $100 a square foot) and not nearly as

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Filed Under: Our First House

| By Sherry Petersik | November 6, 2007 | 5 Comments

Growing Some Grass In The Backyard

Eons ago we promised you updated photos of the new grass-tastic backyard after the Craigslist success story. Well, the grass has FINALLY decided to grow, so instead of sitting around and waiting we can post these pics for you. Here’s the before- which was perfect for our backyard wedding, but waaaay too much work to maintain: So we put an ad for free bushes and gravel on Criagslist, and this is what we were left with: Now that the grass has finally filled in, we have a wide-open (and super easy to maintain) yard that’s perfect for Burger’s bug hunting expeditions: It’s not exactly “lush” but it’s getting there, and by next spring it’ll be

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Filed Under: Our First House, Outside

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