Recent content by Robinh

Check out venetian plaster. It's a bit more work, but you can add coloring to it and it'll stay pretty solid if you burnish it properly. Again, more work but worth it if you're going for a real good look. We did an "old world" plaster theme using this with a very very light purple dye to it...

Oh, bought my GE at Lowes, and while discussing it with them they had a free delivery program, well, rebate, and also a take 10% off you get it on your Lowes card program, so saved even more. Never thought I'd buy a major appliance from a hardware store...

In my last 11 relocations over 20 years, I've had ample opportunity to sample a wide variety of kitchen appliances. I discovered Jenn Air while in New Jersey and thought I'd found a gem, then found out they were made by Maytag and bought the fancy Maytag washer/dryer combo just so everything...

Oh, by the way, that house that I had in Andover, after we subtracted the cost for the improvements that we did ourselves, we netted $68,000 and some. Shows what some elbow grease can do. Figure it out, we spent something in the area of $89,000 in the improvements, and still made a killing...

I was referred by Audrey over at the Appliance Blog Forums. That was very nice of her to do and I appreciate it very much. This seems to me to be a great site, and I really like the way you've laid out your forums. Very professional, but also very welcoming and not a bit cold. I look forward...

Here's one for you Pauly!!! grin...