Category Archives: Home Improvement

Caesarstone Quartz Blizzard: White, Bright, Alright!

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A return to my kitchen remodel rescue is more homely than writerly, but my quartz tops are anything but. And since the majority of visitors find my blog through searches like “Caesarstone Blizzard,” “how to clean stains off Caesarstone,” and “Caesarstone and Barkeepers Friend” (not so much “writerly advice” or “brilliant writing tips”), I feel I owe it to the quartz-curious to update my views on the subject. Continue reading

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Giving Thanks for Thanksgiving in Our Wright Kitchen

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Any home remodel project comes with regrets, and ours was no exception. In fact, according to the list of “Top Five Regrets Homeowners Have After Their Remodel” on remodelingcontractorfinder.com, we were in good company following our Spring 2010 kitchen remodel. The only thing we didn’t do wrong was trying to do it ourselves. Continue reading

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Lessons Learned from My Kitchen Remodel

And, you would not believe how many people find my blog — from locales as varied and distant as Moscow, New Zealand, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, and Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam (Vietnam!?!) — by googling things like, “caesarstone blizzard quartz” and “Benjamin Moore Balboa Mist Reviews,” (but mostly “SNL Starkeisha It’s My Birthday Up in Here”), so I feel I owe it to these random and faithful visitors to throw them a kitchen bone here and there when a kitchen-related thought pops into this distracted brain.
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It Takes Three Tries to Kill a Psycho Movie Villain, and the Fine Dining Coffee Always Tastes Best At the End

Remember the end of Fatal Attraction, when you think Anne Archer has drowned Glenn Close in the bathtub, only she’s not dead, and Glenn springs out and grabs Anne by the throat? Or like in Friday the 13th (pick one) … Continue reading

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A Room Is Not a House

Our kitchen is still a kitchen Even when there’s nothing there but itchin’ (for completion) But a kitchen is not a house, And a house is not a home When the five of us are far apart And one of … Continue reading

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