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Our house’s genealogy

Friday, December 5th, 2008

I imagine many of our fellow Houseblogs.net members are familiar with the blog Bungalowicious. For those of you who aren’t, much like Bungalow Insanity, it follows a Portland, Oregon couple’s adventures in remodeling a bungalow.

Recently, the author of Bungalowcious – Dawn – made an offer we couldn’t refuse. Dawn, as her blog’s regular readers already know, has quite a talent for house geneaology, and she very kindly offered to find out what she could about our house. This is something that weâ€™ve been interested in for a long time, but have never had the time to pursue (and if Iâ€™m being honest, really had no idea how to do.)

Weâ€™ve been wanting to give Dawn credit for doing this, but itâ€™s taken us a month to do it. (Sorry Dawn!) That should give you an idea of why we (at least speaking for myself) were not able to accomplish this ourselves!

If you are curious about the history of our house, or the process of discovering it, keep reading. Hopefully Dawn doesnâ€™t mind us plugging her! We were just so surprised and impressed by thisâ€¦ Click to continue »

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Nearly-done family room

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008

This was the status as of last night. All the trim is finished, stained and polyurethaned. We picked up our couch yesterday, and I am nearly done with the TV wiring. A trip this weekend will keep me away from it until next week, but we could be watching movies in here within about a week! And we are just two doors away from being 100% finished with this room. I had to use a really wide angle lens to get the shots, so don’t be fooled into thinking the room is bigger than it is. It’s only about 11×12′ in reality.

View from the doorway

View from the couch

View from outside the window

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