The 2026 Tennessee Winter Snowmageddon was wild! Lots of snow, sleet, ice (lots of ice), super low temperatures, trees down everywhere, power out everywhere, impassable roads…and all for a week…plus! Surviving it wasn’t as bad as it could have been for us, however. We never lost power. So Emily could spend all her time tracking …
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Sideyard (Phase 2) – The Structure – This Old Dean House
The second phase of our sideyard project is now in place. The structure is built. My favorite part of this project is that I didn’t have to do any of it! I also had a birds-eye view of it as I got to watch it outside my office window. I was a lot warmer than …
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This Old Dean House – One Year Renovation Anniversary
As I finished up the steps in the foyer, I realized that it had been exactly one year since we closed on the house. I had ripped the carpet off those steps the very first day. Exactly one year later, I was reinstalling the last spindle on the completed steps. The past year has been …
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Refinishing The Staircase – This Old Dean House
The first thing we did when we bought the house was rip the carpet off the steps to see what we had. We had something, but it was under layers of paint. So, hard to know what. Refinishing the hardwood floors in the entire house took a lot out of us, and we abandoned refinishing …
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Guest Bath Renovation – This Old Dean House
To repipe the house, I had to rip out the guest bathroom floor (which was going to come out anyway). Then the ceiling had to be removed (because the roof was leaking). After all the demolition and repairs happened, it could all be put back together again. Once that started, I was given a deadline …
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Office Renovation – This Old Dean House
The office renovation was supposed to be easy. Pull the old laundry room sink and paint. We ended up having to remove the ceiling, reframe the roof, and install a new roof (with insulation this time). What was supposed to be an easy room turned out to be a bear! Along the way, we found …
Master Bath Renovation – Part 4 – Finishing Electrical, Plumbing, Drywall, Tile
Moving water pipes, never-ending demo, moving walls, and now we are finally finishing up. We made our final decisions on where everything would go. Emily went into war room mode, figuring out the “design”. Once that was finalized, we completed the electrical, plumbing, drywall, painting, and tiling. For me, this was more fun because I …
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Redoing The Front Beds – This Old Dean House
Giant yew bushes OUT… azaleas and hostas IN! Emily didn’t like the giant shrubs on the front of our house (neither did I). So we ripped them out. Then we went to the nursery and figured out what we wanted back in.
Laundry Room Renovations – This Old Dean House
The dirtiest part (so far) of our entire renovation (and that is saying something) was our laundry room renovation. I had to pull the ceiling in this room, and half of the back yard came out of it. I guess a family of squirrels had lived in there at some point over the past 135 …
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Timber, Trees Down – This Old Dean House
3 trees removed (2 massive and 1 dead) and a ton of cleanup on others was a lot to deal with. We basically spent the entire summer getting tree work done. I always joke with Emily that anytime I spend $1k I have to at least get a video out of it. Well, I should …
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