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		<title>Garage Passes Final Inspection</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So our garage that we&#8217;ve been working on passed final inspection on Friday. Yay! We still have painting and site development work to finish but the hard work has been done.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thisgirlshouse.com/?p=314</link>
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		<title>Billy Hanging The Last Shingle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Billy hanging the last shingle up on the top of the garage.  He took a deep breath and climbed the top of the scaffolding and finished the part the part that was just out of reach.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thisgirlshouse.com/?p=306</link>
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		<title>The Tile Job</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a sample of the tile job in the greatroom. Great job Mattie.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thisgirlshouse.com/?p=298</link>
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		<title>Switching to DishNetwork</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We switched to dish this weekend. We had too. Directtv was sucking us dry and it was either do that or rabbit ears. Not that rabbit ears is totally out of the question, but we really couldn&#8217;t enjoy the experience with the technology the way it is today. Maybe in 2 years with google tv [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thisgirlshouse.com/?p=296</link>
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		<title>Painting the Great Room</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We finally decided on a behr selections of brown. Simple Silhouette for the wall behind the television, and the wall opposite the television. Puddle for the large wall that starts at the entranceway doorway and extends around the greatroom and down the hall to the master bedroom. It was a safe selection and the colorway [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thisgirlshouse.com/?p=292</link>
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		<title>Finishing The Garage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We have a few more details to complete before we can say that we have finally finished the new garage. The most challenging will be putting up the shingles on the front gable. I made the mistake of believing that it is cheaper to get bundles of shingles and stain them myself than it was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thisgirlshouse.com/?p=291</link>
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		<title>Wood Look Tile</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve been shopping a while for flooring. We looked at wood, laminate, cork, slate, and ceramic and porcealan tile. It&#8217;s important for me to have an easy care floor that doesn&#8217;t show a lot of dog hair and dirt since right now I spend a lot of time cleaning floors and carpet. We live on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thisgirlshouse.com/?p=282</link>
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		<title>Painting the Kitchen Graceful Gray</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m just taking a break in the middle of painting the last wall in the kitchen.Â  Graceful Gray is the color of choice.Â  I just love how the color contrasts with the new expresso color of the kitceh cabinet.Â  But painting is a lot of work.Â  The kitchen has 3 walls and I had already [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thisgirlshouse.com/?p=278</link>
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		<title>Painting Your Kitchen Cabinets</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tonight, This Old House had an episode about painting Kitchen Cabinets.Â  They went into detail about the process.Â  Geeze, I wished I had seen this episode sometime last summer before I started painting my kitchen cabinets.Â  It wouldÂ  have saved me some time and money.Â  On the other hand, in the end, I pretty much [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thisgirlshouse.com/?p=277</link>
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		<title>Saving on Fabric Softener</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With 7 to 10 loads of laundry a week, we go through a lot of fabric softener.Â  I have an older washer and dryer, so that means that I do a wash, and then after the wash has been completed, I run a rinse with fabric softener.Â  So basically the wash runs 1.5 times.Â  And [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thisgirlshouse.com/?p=275</link>
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