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Small Home Improvement Project: Refinishing Our Vintage Bathroom Cast Iron tub

Small Home Improvement Project: Refinishing Our Vintage Bathroom Cast Iron tub

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This fall we decided to have our old 1944 white bathtub refinished by a professional tub reglazer.  It has been needing it for about five or six years.  When our kids were younger and still liked to use lots of bath toys, it seemed pointless to waste the money any sooner.  When we bought our house fifteen + years ago, the sellers unfortunately already had it refinished just before listing the house and we didn’t realize it at the time. …

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Retro Marmoleum Flooring for the Kitchen – Day 2 of the project

Retro Marmoleum Flooring for the Kitchen – Day 2 of the project

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Yesterday was a “Murphy’s Law” kind of day.  In Southern California, it never rains here in the summer.  We usually have a long dry season from May to November.  I bet you can see where this post is going…We were confident that we would be okay temporarily storing the furniture from our kitchen and the new cabinets for the laundry room/ mudroom/ office outside for a week while the rooms were gutted down to the subfloor of 1 x 6…

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Watering with Graywater: 2007-2010

Watering with Graywater: 2007-2010

For a long time the greywater bin was hidden away behind perennials and was a family secret.  There were strict laws in California prohibiting its use without special building permits.  However, on August 4th, 2009, in response to growing concerns over our severe drought, the state Building Standards Commission voted to pass the new California greywater code (Chapter 16 in the CA Plumbing Code) which allows residents to dispel washing machine and shower greywater into their landscapes without needing a…

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