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- Tore down wallpaper in living and dining rooms
- Tore out carpet in living and dining rooms
- Removed three layers of linoleum and vinyl flooring—and subflooring—from the kitchen
- Had the hardwood floors refinished
- Mudded and sanded the bare plaster walls in the living and dining rooms
- Primed and painted the living room
- Replaced deadbolts, changing the house of 50,000 keys into the house of one key
- Attempted to fix and use tiny vintage refrigerator
- Wallpapered the dining room
- Replaced the dining room light with a danish modern hanging lamp
- Removed kitchen wallpaper
- Painted kitchen walls
- Removed window a/c unit from dining room
- Had central a/c installed
- Had sewer line rodded and cleared
- Had six feet of sewer main replaced
- Repaired first floor shower
- Removed first-floor bathroom vanity
- Installed vintage kohler cast iron wall-hung sink in bathroom
- Had wall-hung sink refinished
- Took down now-ugly wall-hung sink
- Installed new vitreous china wall-hung sink
- Replaced ding-only doorbell with working doorbell
- Replaced huge stove with vintage, less huge stove
- Replaced huge refrigerator with new, less huge refrigerator
- Installed prairie garden at the back fence in the backyard
- Stripped paint off living and dining room windowframes
- Stained and shellacked living and dining room windowframes
- Replaced newish washing machine with brand-spanking-new high efficiency bosch washer
- Took down curtains all over the house
- Dyed curtains red(ish) and rehung
- Painted bathroom orange
- Replaced bathroom wall light
- Replaced kitchen overhead light
- Replaced kitchen faucet and sprayer
- Shopped for and gazed longingly at garbage disposals that won’t fit our sink
- Removed baseboards from living and dining rooms and hallway
- Replaced one of two water spigots outside
- Replaced scary non-motion sensing garage door opener with a new one
- Had five layers of roofing removed, rotten sheathing replaced, and new roof put on
- Installed two skylights on the unfinished (dark) side of the attic
- Installed track lighting in unfinished side of the attic
- Installed electrical outlets in unfinished side of the attic
- Dug out huge evergreen next to garage
- Planted arborvitae and euonymus next to garage
- Dug four yews out of the front yard
- Planted a serviceberry tree in the front yard
- Leveled the front yard
- Had a landscape architect design front yard landscaping
- Ignored landscape architect
- Sawed a hole in the living room wall to reveal stained glass window
- Had poplar framing for the stained glass window made by jef’s dad
- Replaced the horrid front storm door with a gorgeous solid wood Craftsman-style storm door
- Installed new stained, shellacked baseboards in living and dining rooms
- Replaced first-floor storm windows with traditional wooden storms
- Had bathtub refinished
- Installed reproduction sconces in the bathroom
- Demoed bathroom walls
- Had house replumbed