house blog – Aldo's House

Dining Room – Painted

Sorry for the silence last week, what with Father’s day we didn’t really get anything done at Aldo’s House. We realized that treating the two rooms as a unit was somewhat overwhelming, and decided to paint the dining room completely before adding any color to the living room. We finally brought Aldo to visit the […]

Front Rooms – Part One

A rectangular room with yellowed walls and deep brown carpet with various stains. On the far east corner of the North wall is the exterior door. A large window is centered in the remainder of the North wall. A half-sized window is centered on the short end of the room. A semicircular path from the doorway to the east end of the room is covered in linoleum tile.

We didn’t get a whole lot done this last weekend, but let’s talk about our plans for the front rooms. The front of the house is made up of two rooms: the carpeted living room and vinyl tiled dining room, with a wide doorway between them. We were excited to take out the old carpet […]

Laundry Room Part 2

The yellowed West wall featuring the original water heater in the Northwest corner.

See Part 1 With the original water heater out and the walls painted, we were ready to install the new floor! The previous owners were kind enough to leave us a stack of replacement linoleum tiles, in case we wanted to keep this floor and patch the places where it had been broken. We were […]

Laundry Room Part 1

South wall of the laundry room viewed from the kitchen, framed by the doorway. A small window with short blue curtain is centered in a yellow wall over the dryer hookups. The floor is gray linoleum tile.

We had initially planned to start at the front door and repaint the living and dining rooms first, but starting with the laundry room was appealing for a number of reasons. The previous tenant had taken her washer and dryer with her, so the room was mostly empty. Being able to wash our clothes seemed […]

We Bought a House!

Front of a beige bungalow with blue metal roof. Detached garage is connected by a covered walkway.

Hello friends, We have been keeping the big news mostly to ourselves for a few weeks now. This is not for lack of desire to share the happiness with you all, but more due to a need to let it sink in for ourselves. The new reality has mostly set in, and can largely be […]