You may remember how we salvaged our Craigslist Cabinets out of a house that was being torn down? Well one of the pieces that came with them was this giant pantry piece. After my dad and brother-in-law used every ounce of their strength to haul it out, load it up, and deliver it over 500 miles, I had… 

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Yes you read that right, our Retro Ranch has floors! *This post contains affiliate links* These laminate acacia floors to be exact. After our disastrous time we were having living in the basement, getting the upstairs livable became our #1 priority. This wasn’t our first go around with laying laminate flooring, I actually wrote a… 

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If you’ve been following along with our Retro Ranch Reno, you know that we’ve been tackling some pretty big projects. Probably my least favorite of them all was scraping the popcorn ceilings. You can’t tell in this picture, but along with the thick popcorn, the ceilings were covered in glitter! After surviving this project, I… 

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A few months ago we were still living in the Auction house and we were under contract on the Retro Ranch. I knew that the kitchen needed some major updating, and didn’t think that the cabinets were nice enough to paint them. The kitchen also had an awful layout and it didn’t include a dishwasher. I started… 

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Since moving into our Retro Ranch Reno we’ve been VERY busy. I already shared our main floor tour, and pictures of some progress. Today I’m sharing our progress with installing an egress window. As a bonus I’m sharing pics of our luxurious basement dwelling. OK… I’m kidding. It’s FAR from luxurious, but it’s not fair… 

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Last week I shared all of the “before” pics of our Retro Ranch Reno, now I’m back to show you some of our progress pics! Here is where we started with the kitchen: I posted pictures of the cabinets on Craigslist, and offered them for free to anyone who was willing to come and take them… 

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