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Our New Home – Choosing Exterior Colors & A Checklist

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Selecting Exterior Colors For Our New Home One of the most difficult -but also exciting- parts of the renovation process of our new home was choosing exterior colors we'd use since our house has two completely different "faces". In the front, we have lots of red brick with two small areas of siding, while on the sides and on the back, we have no brick and all siding. Our house sits on a wide street and you can see many homes when standing on …

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New Home Tour – Before Photos

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Our New Home. Working One Room At A Time. It's a new year, and we're finally celebrating it in our new home! As I told you in this post, getting here was a long journey for us and something we worked hard for. As it is with all good things worth waiting for in life, it's paying off. Since we moved, last April, we got a lot done in the house as it needed a fresh coat of paint and repairs both inside and outside, fortunately, nothing major or …

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Moving, Leaving the Military, Closing My Business and Finding a New Home

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Leaving the Navy and Finding a New Home   Addie and I married in 2001 and since then we have lived in Japan, San Diego, Guam, Maryland and then back to San Diego where we lived until the summer of 2016 when we finally moved to Illinois, our current home-state. After 26 years in the Navy, on October 2015 Addie decided he was going to retire from the military in the summer of 2016. That one decision led to a sequence of events that …

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