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About Us
- the reluctant remodeler
- Eugene, Oregon, United States
- Two academics on a mission to upgrade their 3 BR, 1.5 bath 1947 cottage, Raccoon Tree Acres, in Eugene, Oregon. We have limited experience and budget, and we are committed to nice materials and simple mid-century designs. This occasional blog provides tips for the design-challenged, ponders big questions about moldings, and has pretty pictures of stuff that works. And you sometimes get hearty recipes for cooking with a limited kitchen, in portions large enough to fortify the most reluctant remodeler.
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Current Projects
- adding bed in front yard
- adding kitchen window backsplash
- finding dining room hanging light
- installing range hood and venting
- painting kitchen
- painting laundry room wall
- removing useless shower in laundry room
- renovating fireplace
- renovating second bathroom -- a pantry?
- renovating windows
- replacing laundry room hardware
- replacing sink bolted to drywall in small bath
- replacing trim in master bath
- replacing vanity in master bath
- rock garden in back yard
- tiling master bath
Links
- Bring Recycling blog
- City of Eugene Historical Preservation
- Demystifying Duct Tape
- Etsy, My New Obsession
- Friendly Area Neighborhood Program
- How tall is your tree?
- Lotta Living midcentury modern home forum
- Modern-style front doors
- ModWalls Tile Blends
- Oregon house blogs
- Portland Modern, modernist real estate
- Rejuvenation, period lighting in Portland
- Think Electric, electrician collective in Eugene
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Blog Archive
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- history of house
- hellebore rising
- a present, for me?
- plumbing woes
- up on the rooftop
- fortification friday - slow and low couscous
- blog hosts
- a poem lovely as a tree hacked down
- the universe points its finger of electric death
- low energy
- elementary school chairs!
- I'm finished with the hemming project. It wasn't ...
- I'm starting to paint the kitchen nook this weeken...
- five interesting things meme
- fortification fridays
- I've decided I want this stove. I probably won't ...
- grounding outlets for computer equipment
- hemming and hawing
- our poor windows...
- wood you be mine, PLEASE!
- think electric
- glass of water, anyone?
- woman in the dunes, or how I cleaned the dryer
- snow was general all over Eugene
- wood you be mine, part deux
- The Man Who Screwed Too Much, A Cautionary Tale
- o christmas tree
- you like?
- in which we praise skeins of wool
- wood you be mine?
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2 comments:
Take a pair of vicegrips and clamp the end.gently rock and shake back and forth try some silicone spray but be careful they are a bitch.
Thanks! That's basically what we ended up doing...
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