It’s official…we are completely done roofing our house. A few weeks ago we shared with you our “roofing the main part of the house” story where my brother Anthony, his friend Adam, and Colby managed to hammer out (pun 100% intended) re-shingling the main section of the house. That just left the much smaller porch roof to shingle, which took us precisely one Sunday morning to complete. And by we [...]
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One of the keys to finally finishing painting the corner hutch, which we revealed back here, was our investment in a paint sprayer. I haven’t always been pro spray painting. You could say that I’ve crossed party lines. Sorry…I couldn’t help myself throwing in a little election night pun. Consider yourselves lucky that I’m not posting a vote on the blog about whether or not buffalo check is the new [...]
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Happy Black Friday everyone! In honor of one of the biggest shopping days of the year, I thought I would indulge in a little Black Friday goodness here on Angie’s Roost, complete with a freshly designed logo in honor of the “Angie’s Roost Twelve Tools of Christmas”. I have compiled a list of twelve must have tools (according to Colby and I). The list is split between some of our [...]
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Truth. Crack is whack. Especially of the shower grout variety. It’s even more whack when you’re sitting on the toilet and an entire line of grout is cracked and at eye level and staring you down screaming “Fix me! Fix me!” So I fixed the grout. Here’s the evil little cracked grout line: This was extremely difficult to photograph (glossy white tile + flash = frustration) so believe me when [...]
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A couple weeks ago Colby and I visited the tool emporium…aka…NH Bragg & Sons (random shout out to NH Bragg….selling you industrial supplies and solutions since 1854…c’mon…the work of a marketing director never stops). As always, we came home with something. This time it was Colby’s birthday/Christmas present…a Dewalt compact portable table saw. I’m really working on that “Best Girlfriend Ever” award. Since the table saw was adopted Colby has [...]
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This past weekend I celebrated my birthday and it was awesome! Mostly because my boyfriend is a rock star in the birthday present department! My gift from Colby was the most amazing present, so perfect in every way. He bestowed upon me…drum roll please…a pink Kitchen Aid mixer! It’s so pretty! He gave it to me Saturday at about noon-ish while we were taking a house project break. My break [...]
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Welcome to Angie's Roost (and Colby's Hen House) where you'll find daily posts about our misadventures in DIY home improvement. We bought a 100+ year old home that desperately needed some love and blogged about our entire adventure.
Toilet decor
Ikea Alex drawers for storage
Use Ikea Alex drawers to build your own, storage packed desk
