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Good Deals Can Be Found

Friday, September 12th, 2008

Over the past couple of weeks we’ve picked up some really good deals.

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Ginger Empire bathroom lights
From Cantu
$5 each
$657 each
from manufacturer

Jado 818 bathroom faucet (some missing parts)
From eBay
$47
$589
from manufacturer

1920s Hoosier Cabinet
From Craigslist
$500
$750 +
from other craigslist
and eBay postings

95″ double-hung window
From Demolition sale we randomly drove by
$200
$1500
From similar Pella
and Marvin windows

Glass back door
From Demolition sale we randomly drove [...]

Finding old wood windows

Monday, August 25th, 2008

Right now our kitchen has a couple awkward window that face onto the back yard.  We want to open this up with a single large window centered on that wall.  This of course means getting the window soon because we’ll be opening up the wall when we demo the room, and we can’t leave an [...]