• Painting Old Cedar Shingle Siding

    February 1, 2020 / 32 Comments

    My Painted House Part II

    Last time on My Crappy House, we primed the front to get ready for painting the old cedar shingle siding. I don’t know about you, but when I’m working on a project on my crappy house and looking for inspiration, I tend to notice everyone else’s crappy houses. OK, most of them aren’t so crappy, but some of them totally are…

    Ugly multi-colored house
    (Note to self: Garden Dinosaur)
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  • My Painted House Part I

    November 1, 2019 / 17 Comments

    BOO! It’s me! Scary, right? I bet you didn’t expect to be scared the day after Halloween… I’m just full of surprises. (Like this post, coming out of, like, nowhere a mere quarter of a year since my last one…) So, Halloween was yesterday and that got me to thinking about scary stuff. Like how scary my front yard has looked for the last 8 years.

    Not quite as bad as this…

    But still pretty scary.

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