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Pardon Our Dust
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Southern California remodeling tales by Kathy Price.
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Rebuilding in Burbank after 'the Great Flood of '06'
Click to see the latest on Kathy's Remodeling Blog Three days before Christmas 2006, as chef Matt Beville was sliding a tray of pastries into the oven at work, he had no idea events were unfolding at his 1924 Burbank...
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This blog has a new home
This blog has a new home. Please join us here: Kathy's Remodeling Blog All New Orleans posts are here: Dispatch From New Orleans
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Dispatch from New Orleans: Second-guessing myself
______________________________________________________ Click to see the latest on Kathy's Remodeling Blog ______________________________________________________ By Ariane Wiltse Every now and then, a story in the local press forces me to reevaluate my decision to move back to New Orleans and buy a house...
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Coming Sunday: commodes and cancer
______________________________________________________ Click to see the latest on Kathy's Remodeling Blog ______________________________________________________ I want to let you know about the Pardon Our Dust feature coming up Sunday in the Real Estate section. It's about two bathrooms that were gutted and redone...
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Ask a Realtor: Should parents create rental units in their home?
______________________________________________________ Click to see the latest on Kathy's Remodeling Blog ______________________________________________________ Question: My father and mother live together in a six-bedroom, five-bath house in Northridge. In the last three years, all three of the kids have moved out. My dad's...
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Joni's condo kitchen remodel: Coming into the final stretch
______________________________________________________ Click to see the latest on Kathy's Remodeling Blog ______________________________________________________ Joni's condo kitchen update is nearly done. (See the project up to now.) Joni's friend and fellow nurse Patti is helping out, and she files this report: I'm home...
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Dispatch from New Orleans: The foundation saga, cont.
______________________________________________________ Click to see the latest on Kathy's Remodeling Blog ______________________________________________________ By Ariane Wiltse My mom arrived last week with the best of intentions. Like other relatives who have come before her, she came to help with my house in...
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For Sale: "Extreme Makeover" homes
______________________________________________________ Click to see the latest on Kathy's Remodeling Blog ______________________________________________________ You know those great big houses the team from the ABC series "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" builds for deserving families? Well, sometimes those big houses turn out to be...
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On the Fourth of July, this blog moves to my own website
Big changes, people! On the Fourth of July, this blog will move to my own website at www.kathyprice.com and I hope you will join me there to continue the conversation. I plan to blog more about my own projects, as...
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Free and cheap: A fleur-de-lis door on the side of the road
______________________________________________________ Click to see the latest on Kathy's Remodeling Blog ______________________________________________________ As you know if you've been keeping up with my blog, I've recently become enthralled and obsessed with the rebuilding of New Orleans. I visited the first time in...
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Dispatch from New Orleans: From the ground up
______________________________________________________ Click to see the latest on Kathy's Remodeling Blog ______________________________________________________ By Ariane Wiltse As the big day approached, the day when we'd jack up the house, cut out the old sills and rebuild the piers, I began to take...
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The $5 starting point
______________________________________________________ Click to see the latest on Kathy's Remodeling Blog ______________________________________________________ Isn't this bedroom yummy? It's in the Rosarito Beach vacation condo that Don and Gigi Maurizio remodeled. Gigi, an administrator with the Glendora Unified School District who lives in...
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Where the money went: Rosarito Beach condo remodel
______________________________________________________ Click to see the latest on Kathy's Remodeling Blog ______________________________________________________ How Don and Gigi Maurizio spent the money on their Rosarito Beach remodel: Construction Demolition: $3,000 Scraping textured plaster walls: $500 (labor) Staining beams: $500 (labor) Cabinets: $7,200 (materials)...
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You write the caption
______________________________________________________ Click to see the latest on Kathy's Remodeling Blog ______________________________________________________ I found this photo over at the excellent L.A. Land blog. Where do you suppose these two guys are heading with this action?
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Rosarito Beach condo remodel
______________________________________________________ Click to see the latest on Kathy's Remodeling Blog ______________________________________________________ How did Don Maurizio puzzle out the cabinet installation in his Rosarito Beach kitchen? Click here to read the whole story.
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Laundry room/bathroom combo a great idea
______________________________________________________ Click to see the latest on Kathy's Remodeling Blog ______________________________________________________ In a previous post, Andrew C. wondered how to best use the extra space on the ground floor of his Crofton, Md., townhouse. He wanted both a larger laundry...
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Design challenge: A bigger laundry room or a new bathroom?
______________________________________________________ Click to see the latest on Kathy's Remodeling Blog ______________________________________________________ Andrew C., a reader from Crofton, Md., needs our advice on whether to add a bathroom to some extra space on his ground floor, or to enlarge his cramped...
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Coming Sunday: Rosarito Beach condo remodel
______________________________________________________ Click to see the latest on Kathy's Remodeling Blog ______________________________________________________ If you've ever wondered how a school administrator and college professor from Claremont would remodel a condo in Rosarito Beach, Mexico, I've got a story for you. It will...
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Joni's kitchen remodel: Mystery of the slipping tile solved
______________________________________________________ Click to see the latest on Kathy's Remodeling Blog ______________________________________________________ Patti here. Since our weekend tile project, which Joni and I wrote about in a previous post, we have gathered some valuable information. First and foremost is that thinset...
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Famous folks at home: quiz
______________________________________________________ Click to see the latest on Kathy's Remodeling Blog ______________________________________________________ Isn't this a lovely garden room? The owner calls it a teahouse and may not visit for months on end because of a busy schedule. The garden was designed...
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