Archive for 2009

Not Thrifty!

Thursday, December 31st, 2009

The holidays have not been kind to thrift stores. Over-shopped and under-supplied I haven’t found much of anything on the regular thrifting route.

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The cops did show up. Oh no, Thrifty! crime.

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One of my favorite lighting fixtures EVER in a thrift store – and they have three of them.

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Ugh. Not even worth it…I’m totally scrapping the bottom of the barrel to find some thrifty items to shoot.

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OH MY WHAT IS THIS?

Danish. Retractable. Pendant. Light.

Shazzam.

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It’s missing a couple of screws and needs a deep cleaning but for $4.95 I don’t really give a shit. Holler bitches.

Now the question is this: where do I put it?

FILED UNDER: Not Thrifty

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Side Yard

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009

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Some of that leftover gravel is headed over to our side yard which will be turned into an entertainment space fitted with cement square pavers, a fire pit, and lots’o crazy drought tolerant plantings. It’s going to be A to the Mazing if all goes as planned…

But, what have we accomplished in the two years of thinking and planning this area?

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Here is a before pic (from our inspection) of the area connecting the back yard to the side yard located behind the garage. We think the previous owner used it as a dog run or something else way more sinisterly creepy. It was lined with plywood, janky wood pallets and TONS of that hamster wood-shaving stuff. Smell = gross.

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We cleaned all that scariness out, lined the area with geotextile fabric and dumped about four inches of the driveway gravel down.

Much better.

So much more to do: fix the fence, create planting areas, level it all out, actually put paint on the house. It’s still not fully primed yet…six months after we began…jeeez.

2010! Year of the exterior!

FILED UNDER: after, before, DIY, driveway, exterior, landscape

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Homies

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009


(via TRICK MY TRUCK)

According to the totally masochistic Bromeliad wrap-up of the AT Homies this here old bloggity made it to number 11. Also, I am a Big Boy.

The Big Boys

217 younghouselove.com
197 remodelista.com
195 doorsixteen.com
184 decor8blog.com
171 makingitlovely.com
132 retrorenovation.com
129 desiretoinspire.net
126 brooklynlimestone.com
122 allthebestblog.com
97 chezlarsson.com
96 trickmybrick.blogspot.com

And I’m the only one retarded enough to have a web address that:

A. Is a joke and not the actual blog title. How anyone could find me is a mystery.
B. Is STILL at a goddamn blogspot blogger address and not my very own real url.

Slacker. Total internet slacking.

The story BTW about my joke blog address is this:

The Boy watches a show called “Trick My Truck”. Seriously. On CMT. Whatever, I watch some stupid shiz too. I started the blog while camping out at my sisters house waiting for the actual Brick House to close escrow. It was done on a whim to document our first home renovation shenanigans and I didn’t really think the whole thing through…

So here we are. A blog I thought maybe my family would read is now a “shelter blog”. Just so weird.

Thanks everyone for reading this crap and for all your comments, suggestions and support. It’s been invaluable as we’ve gone through this whole house thing for the first time.

And as calbona noted I’m the “best” so I’m going to try a little harder to live up to that.

*An aside, the boy went through everyone’s comments (which were AWESOME) about the blog on the Homie’s page and was like “Your not witty or funny, just wait till all these people meet you in person. They’ll see.” Ahhhhhh, love.

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