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We Hope To Reuse The Original Kitchen Cabinetry in
Our American System-Built Home

05/12/2014

Just as we reclaimed the original dining room doors in our American System-Built home, we also hope to reuse the original kitchen cabinets. That’s right, we still have the original cabinetry from our American System-Built home! Sitting in a corner by the garage door, covered in years of dust, cobwebs and peeling paint, these cabinets are just begging to be refinished and reclaimed.

architecture, Prairie School

American Design: Prairie School in the 21st Century

05/08/2014

I wonder whether Frank Lloyd Wright, Walter Burley Griffin and the other architects of the Prairie School had any notion that, 100 years later, we’d still be seeing new designs based on their principles. Actually, they probably had every intention of creating an enduring style. According the Prairie School wikipedia definition:

American made, secondhand stories, setting up home, thrifty

This Vintage Ekco Vegetable Peeler Just Wants to Be Used

05/07/2014

I was having one of those mostly unsuccessful trips to the antique mall so I started digging deeper. You know, crouching down and looking behind things and really searching for a good find. I was NOT going to leave empty handed dammit! And then there it was, a vintage Ekco vegetable peeler still attached to its original packaging. Take me home and use me, it seemed to say to me. Don’t mind if i do!

American System-Built Home, DIY, dream house

The Dining Room Doors Are Officially Reclaimed!

05/06/2014

The last time I was talking about the dining room doors here on the blog they were leaning against the dining room wall. We had brought the doors in from the rafters above the garage and cleaned them of the layers and layers of dust and bird’s nests but I wanted more seasoned hands than my own to help install them. Fortunately, just a week later, my parents came to the Dream House with a wood router in tow and, working together like a happy DIY family, we got the doors re-installed!

DIY, furnishing, thrifty

Coming Together: Our DIY Industrial Pipe Console Table

05/05/2014

From the moment our new sofa was delivered and we figured out that it fit best in front of the bank of windows in the living room, I knew that I wanted a console table behind it. As a stop gap measure I placed a drop leaf table behind the sofa and then I started my search for a proper console table. In the four months since then, I’ve found a lot of console tables that I’ve liked but none within my price range (read: cheap!). So I did what I always do when I can’t find what I want – I built my own!

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We Hope To Reuse The Original Kitchen Cabinetry in
Our American System-Built Home

American Design: Prairie School in the 21st Century

This Vintage Ekco Vegetable Peeler Just Wants to Be Used

The Dining Room Doors Are Officially Reclaimed!

Coming Together: Our DIY Industrial Pipe Console Table

LIVING HISTORY IN THIS AMERICAN HOUSE: AN AMERICAN SYSTEM-BUILT HOME DESIGNED BY FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT | 1917

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We Hope To Reuse The Original Kitchen Cabinetry in Our American System-Built Home

American Design: Prairie School in the 21st Century

This Vintage Ekco Vegetable Peeler Just Wants to Be Used

The Dining Room Doors Are Officially Reclaimed!

Coming Together: Our DIY Industrial Pipe Console Table

LIVING HISTORY IN THIS AMERICAN HOUSE: AN AMERICAN SYSTEM-BUILT HOME DESIGNED BY FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT | 1917

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We Hope To Reuse The Original Kitchen Cabinetry in
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