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January 01, 2015

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Garage Gym

DIY Home Gym. Turn your Garage into a Gym. Why we choose not to park in our garage. Why we stopped paying for a gym membership. More than just a New Year's Resolution. Garage Makeover. Ugly Garage Solution. Could have used any of these titles for this post. But the gist is this: our garage is now a playroom. The Before!!!! We wanted it to be a fun hangout for the kids and their friends. So this is also where our TV and Wii is. We plan to have yoga, dance parties, camp-outs, and an open door policy to family/friends/neighbors. A squat rack + bench, rings, bars + weights, dumb-bells, treadmill, aerodyne bike, jump ropes, kettle bells, a jump box... a rower is {hopefully} in the near future!! And critical to any gym, we have surround sound speakers set up. We ran heat to the garage. Then Jordan re-trimmed it nicely, drywalled, painted, new lighting, installed horse stall...

bathroom makeover

This bathroom has gone from your typical 1950's peach-tiled bath, to mediocre ranch bathroom facelift, to what I hope is the final (and greatest!) improvement. Let's take a walk through what it took to get our bathroom to this point. The reason this improvement even got started is thanks to our crappy tub spigot. You had to jiggle it to get the shower to turn on and I snapped the thing right off and also the pipe that it was connected to... whoops! So instead of fixing what would have been a $300 fix, we decided that now was the time to gut the entire bathroom (for the second time in 7.5 years!) and get it how we wanted it. Now normally my Mr. Fix-It husband does everything around here. But we immediately decided that the plumbing was going to be too big a project. So we hired Mr. Simon to fix it all up. So glad we did since our house's plumbing job was in need of a major upgrade. (And it was worth every pretty penny as...

Three Girls Bedroom

Well, it has only taken one year but I think we have wrapped up project: three-daughters-in-the-same-room. Actually, for a short time, we had three and sometimes all four of our children in the same room. Our older daughters started sharing a full size bed when they were 1 1/2 and 3 years old! We needed more space in the room so we decided to try a bunk bed from Ikea. When the girls were (6.5 & 5), we bought a full size bunk bed. Eventually, below them, our youngest daughter (2 at the time) slept in her crib / toddler bed. It was fine for a while but let me give you a list of reasons as to why I would not do a bunk bed again: Changing the sheets is a pain! Making the bed is a pain! Tucking them in is a pain! The task of getting out of bed and climbing down the ladder in the middle of the night to go potty, is a pain for them! For the time being, it probably was the most functional setup when it comes to fitting three girls in the same room along with...

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