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    The Hallway Bathroom

    Written April 17, 2013 This was the bathroom that we were going to leave alone. Not too bad. Save this project for another day and another budget, right? Then we found out that the…

    April 16, 2013
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    The Master Bathroom

    Written April 16, 2013 The master bathroom transformation is definitely worth writing home about. If someone hadn’t told me that a bedroom could be made into a closet and bathroom, I never would have…

    April 16, 2013
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    The Master Bedroom

    Written April 16, 2013 The master bedroom wasn’t a very dramatic shift. Nothing to write home about, as they say, but here I am writing about it. The biggest excitement came when we put…

    April 16, 2013
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    The Sacred Hallway

    Written April 16, 2013 Do you remember the movie, The Shining? I actually never saw it because I don’t enjoy movies that terrify me. Joel did see it however and the images in it…

    April 15, 2013
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    Our Offices

    Written April 15, 2013 We realized right away that we would have plenty of bedrooms for our needs, so we turned the rooms at the front of the house into our offices. We figured…

    April 15, 2013
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    A Treatise on Banister Repair

    Written April 15, 2013 In the previous article, Let’s Go Upstairs, you got a glimpse of the banister that was replaced. David Griggs, the master craftsman who did this fine job, agreed to take some…

    April 15, 2013
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    Let’s Go Upstairs

    Written April 15, 2013 The front stairway has always been a treat for us – the curve at the top, the brightness from the two stairwell windows, and the potential for the original, beautiful…

    April 15, 2013
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    Gracious Artists

    Written April 1, 2013 Not too long after we moved into our home, we sorted out where and how to hang our artwork. We have a fair amount of art considering my personal creations,…

    April 2, 2013
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    The Half Bathroom

    Written January 18, 2013 The extended Sauer family cherishes their former Kaukauna, Wisconsin homestead – the big, old house on the hill along the banks of the Fox River. One of the memorialized features…

    January 18, 2013
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    The Den

    Written January 18, 2013

    The den has turned into one of our favorite, most-frequented rooms. We hoped for that and designed it around that idea, but to have it officially manifest that way deemed…

    January 18, 2013