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sow's ear: Porch Projects
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Rehabbing a capitol hill rowhouse. Friday, May 28, 2010. One kind of longer-term project we are working on is turning our back porch off the kitchen into a decent place to sit. Looks nice out here, right (if you sort of hold your hand up to cover the pile of stuff in the left corner)? Not only are we missing screens and shades, but most of the jalousie mechanisms are missing their crank handles and aren't properly riveted together in all the right places. So, we've got our work cut out for us out here.
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sow's ear: Tiny Nursery: Potato Print Curtains!
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Rehabbing a capitol hill rowhouse. Thursday, November 7, 2013. Tiny Nursery: Potato Print Curtains! I decided to make my own curtains from canvas drop cloths and paint. I first bought two large canvas drop cloths, then washed and dried them in case they had any kind of sizing or other treatment on them. I next carved some simple triangles into three potato halves, using regular kitchen knives and a couple of chisels. Potato stamps and Benjamin Moore Natura paint, to be used for both curtains and walls.
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sow's ear: Porch Projects for Summer: A New & Improved Back Porch, now with Screens!
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Rehabbing a capitol hill rowhouse. Tuesday, September 3, 2013. Porch Projects for Summer: A New and Improved Back Porch, now with Screens! Slowly but surely, through sacrificing/cannibalizing a few mechanisms and multiple trips to hardware stores and salvage yards to dig through bins of old screws, I got all but four (of 18 total! Our next order of business in our quest for a nice porch was to buy and install screens to keep out the mosquitoes. Because of the presence of many old screen clips attache...
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sow's ear: Tiny Nursery: Closet Makeover
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Rehabbing a capitol hill rowhouse. Wednesday, November 6, 2013. Tiny Nursery: Closet Makeover. When we moved into The Ear, we had two small, crappy closets. One was in our bedroom ( improved upon last year. And the other was in our office-turned-nursery. Both closets were used to run HVAC ducts, which is good for aesthetics but not for storage capacity. At some point over the summer (maybe during the bathroom addition? I decided on this unidentified yellow; the green was a little too. Picture Window temp...
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sow's ear: Tiny Nursery: Ready & Waiting
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Rehabbing a capitol hill rowhouse. Monday, November 11, 2013. Tiny Nursery: Ready and Waiting. I hung a couple of my own paintings and moved my great grandmother's rocker into the room. Closet full of little clothes. The chest is stocked with diapers and covers (thank you, Modern Diaper Service. Socks and hats, bedding and blankets, with a changing area on top. Some of my childhood toys, all well loved and well remembered. Other items I'm excited about:. Two paintings on paper by my friend Mike Dowley.
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sow's ear: Garden Update
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Rehabbing a capitol hill rowhouse. Thursday, August 29, 2013. More wildlife - a mantis! All the carrots and lavender. I'll probably try making a refrigerator pickle with the carrots. Not sure about the lavender yet. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). From little rock, arkansas, MFA in hand, well-versed in southern longing, culinary delights, and yellow-dog-ism. located in DC since 2009 after stints in illinois and LA. View my complete profile. Save the pink bathrooms.
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sow's ear: Garden's Ready for Fall, and Upcoming Large Project(s)
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Rehabbing a capitol hill rowhouse. Wednesday, October 2, 2013. Garden's Ready for Fall, and Upcoming Large Project(s). The garden is ready for fall: old things cleaned out, seeds planted, cat barriers (just some plastic mesh and bamboo stakes) installed. Refrigerator pickles made with carrots and turnips. Beans, tomatoes, peppers, and eggplants still going strong! Verdant pole bean vines against the brilliant sky. A rather large bean ready to be picked. Why does it look like such a wreck?
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sow's ear: Tiny Nursery, Part 1
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Rehabbing a capitol hill rowhouse. Tuesday, November 5, 2013. Tiny Nursery, Part 1. Once Ma MJ was here, we taped off the coral area, and then we primed. Next, we primed some more. After several coats of primer, we got to the new color. The BM paint is lovely, goes on well, covers well, no smell, and is worth the $ . Really nice to work with. After two coats of Natura, here is our new Pike's Peak Gray room (upper wall and ceiling are still Behr Linen White). It was still in need of finishing touches, one...
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sow's ear: The Crappy Little Closet That Could: A Thanksgiving Project
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Rehabbing a capitol hill rowhouse. Wednesday, November 21, 2012. The Crappy Little Closet That Could: A Thanksgiving Project. Hello Internet, it's been a while! Not too many projects have been undertaken for the past few months here at the Sow's Ear. We just enjoyed the last fruits of our garden (we had so many green tomatoes when we finally ripped out our vines - couldn't give them all away or find new recipes fast enough) and turned our attention to other things. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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arkalangeles: February Studio Pictures
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Hey Okie, you seen Arkie? Tell her Tex has a job for her out in. (notes on art and life from an arkie adrift). Thursday, February 28, 2013. Sometimes when I don't have any ideas, I give myself assignments. Usually, those assignments are to paint from life whatever is around me. For the last few weeks I've been using watercolor, inspired by the watercolor class I taught last semester at GWU. Small watercolors of studio scenes, a new series from the last few weeks. March 17, 2013 at 7:37 PM. Blogs i look at.
