Wasn’t that a TLC song….Red Light Special? Oh TLC how you helped me through some tough times as a seventh grader. I always stuck to the rivers and the lakes that I was used to. But seriously…I believe Red Light Special was one of the more prominent songs off their Crazy Sexy Cool album (which … Read more
Are you ready? Can you contain yourself? Are you inching towards the edge of your seat in anticipation for the great big Pinterest Challenge Fall Edition big reveal?! Well, let’s start by revealing which project I chose to tackle. I chose to do the art project, this one: How did I land on this as … Read more
Confession to make…I now tackle house projects based on the ugliness factor. I know what you’re thinking…what exactly is the ugliness factor? It’s quite simple actually. You take the ugliest thing in the house and make it pretty. Easy peasy. Up to about a week ago, the ugliest thing in our household was the staircase. … Read more
Last week during my Halloween decorating woes, back here, I vowed to make something for Halloween. Armed with an urn from Kmart scored for $1.47, I was ready to convert it to a Halloween urn. Seriously! That was the best urn score ever! Only $1.47…sheesh! Back when I purchased it (in August mind you) I … Read more
This weekend I finally got my butt in gear and hauled out the Halloween decorations. Last year our house was a complete disaster so I missed out on all the Halloween decorating (and even Christmas decorating). I did throw out some decorations on the porch last year but it was just on Halloween to attract … Read more
Dream dining room is making some serious progress these days. I feel like since we finished painting it way back here we’ve just been steamrolling the projects out. We took it one step further this weekend and added a rug…booyah! So remember the rug from Overstock that I introduced you to back here in our … Read more
I’ve alluded to it, you’ve waited for it, it’s time for the great dining room floor stenciling reveal. And in true Angie fashion, I’m going to make you wait until the end of the post for the big, BIG reveal. Until then, I’m going to take you back to your seventh grade dissecting days and … Read more
We’ve got the golden ticket…errr…I mean shovel. So you remember back when we had our little ground breaking ceremony for the deck (back here)? And we used a golden shovel? Well, we thought we needed to dedicate a blog post to the golden shovel because it is THAT amazing. So the shovel never used to … Read more
It’s official…the deck is done. Well, pretty much done. There are still a few final touches for the deck to be done done, but what project is ever really done?! There’s always tweaking. Besides…who needs to screw down ALL the boards on the deck surface. Totally overrated (please note the sarcasm…we just ran out of … Read more
As alluded to in Thursday evening’s window trim blog post back here, I’ve been ever so diligently working on refinishing our dining room floor. I must preface this post by mentioning that our current dining room floor situation is temporary. It’s just old pine boards that were used as sub-flooring. The dining room floor will … Read more
This is the dining room window…bare…naked…plain jane: We bought it back in June, installed it, and now we’re gonna talk about its new accessories! And by accessories I mean window trim. We had big plans for the dining room window trim inspired by our old digs. Colby and I used to rent an apartment in … Read more
Day 3. October 2nd, 2011. Oh-six-hundred hours. Tired…sore…cranky…the troops were up and assessing the mission’s status. This was to be their last day working on Operation Deck Build due to a necessity to move to the interior of the house to resume Operation Desk Build. On tap for the day…stair building. Colby first assembled the … Read more
Day two. October 1st, 2011. Seven-hundred hours. Colby was up at the ass-crack of dawn (can you say ass-crack in a “formal” mission report?) to secure a post hole digger from a local rental shop. The weather was less than ideal but our lead builder, Colby was adamant about continuing on with the mission…in the … Read more
Day one. September 30th, 2011. Seventeen-hundred hours. The deck demo begins. The troops (Colby and Angie) are full of excitement and joy as they begin working on their new deck. The project at hand…demo the old stairs. This task proved much easier than expected with the stairs severely rotted, exposing a safety concern. One swift … Read more
Distraction…yes…that’s my middle name. Angie Distraction Bohovich. It has a nice ring to it I think. Or maybe my middle name is A-D-D. Yeah…that’s more like it…Angie ADD Bohovich. Why? Because we absolutely cannot focus on one project at a time here at Angie’s Roost. We’ve got a bathroom reno we still haven’t completed, we’re … Read more
As promised, we’re here with a little desk building update. Emphasis on little. Typical Angie reporting live here with her usual complete under-estimation of the amount of time that it would take to build a desk. I was thinking it would be a weekend project. Mmmmmm….no. We did manage to finish the desk top in … Read more