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New houses going up fast

by The Diva

There’s a lot of construction going on in my neighborhood. It seems that any house that used to be a bungalow is being purchased and turned into a two or three story home.

The house down the street, one that used to have very undesirable renters in it for several years, has been torn down and in it’s place two three story houses are going up in it’s place. Apparently the man who owned the former home has been trying to get permission from the city to rebuild there for years – and probably trying to get his renters out for that long too.

Anyway once he finally got permission and got his renters out it seemed the houses went up in no time at all. I think they tore down the old house in March or April and the new houses are up and just about finished already. There’s even signs on the property trying to sell the houses – I’m assuming at some future date when they expect them to be finished. Man that was fast.

Of course there’s still lots of work going. From my house I can see everything from Cement trucks going back and forth to back hoes and a used skid steer and several other pieces of heavy machinery.  I’m just glad that it’s way down the street so I don’t have to hear all the noise!

Filed Under: Home and family, Home Improvement, House and Home, Items to Try Tagged With: bungalow, concrete, construction, finish, house, machinery, neighborhood, neighbors, new homes, renters, street, tear down

I need a nice long bath

by The Diva

I’m seriously thinking of having a nice long soak in the tub before I go to bed. That might be just what the doctor prescribed for all my aches and pains. See my last post to understand why I’m aching and bruised and in need of such a soak.

I’m more of a shower person. I don’t take baths very often but when I do it definitely is a pampering spa like bath experience that I’m going for. I’ll soak in the bath until the water has gone from being almost too hot to get into to too cold to stay in. I certainly have enough bath oils, bath beads and bath salts that I could take nice long baths almost every night but I just don’t. I’ve even been thinking of trying a seaweed detox bath every once in a while to see if it helps when my psoriasis acts up.

Do you pamper yourself with nice long soaks in the tub? I’m sure it would help if I actually had a nice big tub in my house. We only have one tub and it’s kind of small … a really nice one would be more enticing I’m sure.

Filed Under: Bath and Shower, Health and Fitness, Home and family, Items to Try, Skin Care, Womens World Tagged With: aches, bath beads, bath oils, bath salts, bathe, bed, big tub, bruises, long bath, long soak, nice tub, pains, pamper, relax, shower, showering, sleep, soak, spa, treat

A simple finish for my basement

by The Diva

I’m trying to think of the simplest way to semi-finish our basement. I’d love to go all out and do a really big basement renovation but that’s just not going to happen.

Our basement has a low ceiling so if I wanted to do the basement right one of the first things I’d need to do would be to dig the floor down a foot or two! No ..I’ll just have to keep hitting my head. LOL … Well .. at least when I get a new furnace sometime in the near future I’ll make sure that the duct work gets moved to the sides of the basement instead of running in the center and pretty much all over the place. It’s no wonder I keep hitting my head when I’m down there. If the duct work was moved over the ceiling would still be low but I’d just clear my head in most places.

One nice thing about our basement is that it’s been very dry. No leaks and the walls are intact. Perhaps I could keep them the way they are. They are painted white .. maybe just repaint? Just put down some kind of basement flooring, perhaps paint the ceiling rafters white to lighten up the basement and that might be ok for a simple reno?

Filed Under: Home and family, Home Improvement, Items to Try, Renovating Tagged With: basement, duct work, finish, flooring, furnace, low ceiling, walls, white, white rafters

Redecorating and refurnishing

by The Diva

Do you ever feel like just redecorating? I get that urge every once in a while. Certainly more often than I’m able to afford to redecorate I’m sure.

My brother and his wife apparently are going through redecorating mode. They just sent an email full of photos of their new living room. I guess over the last few weeks they repainted the living room, got new curtains or window dressings and replaced their old furnishings with some very nice looking French furniture.

Their living room has a very formal look now, but then it always did have a formal look. They use their den for more informal gatherings or for watching TV, their living room is for getting together with visitors and entertaining.

I can’t wait to go and see their new furniture in person.

Filed Under: Furniture, Home and family, Home Improvement, Items to Try Tagged With: brother, curtains, den, drapes, family, formal, french furniture, living room, new furniture, old furniture, redecorate, visit, visitors, window dressings

Organizing things – again

by The Diva

There were a lot of things I was supposed to be doing today … but my husband not being home kind of put a dent in my plans. You see we were supposed to have been finishing some of our renovations. Grrrrr ..

So … I kept myself busy doing other things … like cleaning up some areas of the house that needed cleaning and organizing. Like the basement – still. There’s a large area filled with my husbands music equipment. not guitars or anything like that. It wouldn’t be good to keep guitars in the basement but items like his pedals, an amp, music stands and several of his mics are in the basement. I even came across a really cool microphone made by blue microphones. It has an old fashioned look to it. I didn’t even know he had a microphone like that. Pretty cool!

So yet another area of the basement is now organized .. and I did that alone, again. I’ll have the whole house done – on my own pretty soon.

Filed Under: A clean home, Home and family, Home Improvement, Items to Try Tagged With: alone, basement, fed up, guitar, mad, microphone, Music, music equipment, on my own, organizing, renovate, waiting

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