I’m still here… just been a bit busy, and haven’t had very much time, motivation, energy to post…
In the meantime Grassroots Modern is sponsoring an Affordable Modern Kitchen Design Contenst Go check it out… lots of inspiration… Here are a few gems from my favorite.
Categories: Chicago, The Green House
Tagged: contest, modern kitchen, Photos, Real Estate
SAVE MONEY! SAVE ENERGY! WIN BIG! Home Depot is sponsoring a video contest via Youtube, asking users to create a short video about how they are saving money by making energy efficient improvements to their house.
The grand prize is a $5000 Home Depot gift certificate, which we could certainly put to good use around here. Lauren and I are [...]
Categories: Chicago, Life, The Green House
Tagged: energy efficiency, Home Depot, home improvement, save money, video contest
I am generally a pretty easy going guy. On the scale of laid back to anal annie, I would rate myself surfer dude. But the last few weeks have turned me into a teeth gritting, knuckle clenching, eye bulging lunatic.
I found this website, Rotten Neighbor the other day and although I don’t think I am [...]
Categories: Chicago, The Green House
Tagged: noisy neighbors, rotten neighbor, the condo
I picked up some pretty nice looking louvered doors for the laundry/furnace room a few weekends ago on craigslist. They were a steal at $50 considering my home away from home, Home Depot sells much lower quality doors for around $100, and with this god-for-saken Illinois taxing scheme, it means I saved well over [...]
Categories: Chicago, The Green House
Tagged: closet, doors, laundry, Real Estate, the condo
It was a few weeks ago now, but we ended up spending a good 6 hours one Saturday at ABT a local appliance warehouse and picked up an very efficient refrigerator, front loading washer and dryer, as well as a convection gas range/oven.
We spent the first month here with an old refrigerator that was constantly running, [...]
Categories: Chicago, The Green House
Tagged: appliances, effcient, energy efficient appliances, energy star, Real Estate, refrigerator, the condo
The little old fridge, and tiny white stove, are finally out of here! I am so glad that I didn’t pay to have our old appliances taken away when we got the new ones delivered. I knew we would be able to get rid of them somehow.
I put them up on Craigslist Friday night, [...]
Categories: Chicago, The Green House
Tagged: appliances, kitchen, Real Estate, recycle, refridgerator, stove, the condo
These are a bit old at this point. These photos are from the week before our second closing, when Lauren and I came up to Lunt to install the “Kitchen”. We don’t have as many good photos of this place before we started working on it, these may be our best shot. Big thanks [...]
Categories: Chicago, The Green House
Tagged: cabinets, gallery, ikea, kitchen, Real Estate, the condo
For this week’s, Green House Effect Round-up, I am focusing on Straw Bale construction. I have been infatuated with this alternative constructiion technique after coming across The Staw House Blog a few weeks ago. Below are a few other resources I found interesting and/or helpful.
The Staw House Blog
Stonehouse Straw House
Strawbale.com
The Straw Bale House [...]
Categories: Chicago, The Green House
Tagged: Alternative Building Materials, Alternative Construction, Green Building, Staw Bale, Staw Bale Construction
So I am jumping the gun a bit, I haven’t even posted about the 4 closing we had and were botched, or that we finally, eventually, almost didn’t, but in the end did close.
I didn’t write about swapping lenders after the original appraisal because we didn’t have a kitchen and no one told us until [...]
Categories: Chicago, The Green House
Tagged: kitchen, plumbing, Real Estate, the condo
Over the 4th of July weekend, I was the best man in my best friends wedding.
I already had my hands full, planning one drunken night of debauchery, and two days of fun in the sun back home. I didn’t want to have to deal with all the new responsibilities of purchasing a house on [...]
Categories: Chicago, The Green House
Tagged: Real Estate, Real Estate Investing, the condo