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Casa Warwingle

Adventures in DIY green home ownership

After 16 years, we have finally succeeded in buying our own home. Follow us as we renovate, retrofit, and restore this 1948 California bungalow.

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Electrical

Casa Warwingle currently has the original knob-and-tube wiring from 1948 -- plus a few unpermitted hack-job 'updates' to add...

Kitchen Installation, Part 1: Subfloor

Nik has a friend who let us borrow his enormous truck this weekend, to haul wallboard and plywood from Home Depot. We got a good...

Smashy-smash, part 2

After a few evenings and all day today, the kitchen is almost completely demolished. Earlier this week: Another evening, another section...

Nik Takes Apart the Bathroom

It's amazing how quickly you can take a bathroom apart. Nik isn't wasting any time: on his first day off work since we got the keys, he...

Renovation Target #1: The Bathroom

Nik has decided his first demo target will be the bathroom. Here are the "before" photos - note the 60's era formica counter and built-in...

It's Ours!!

Kathie, our long-suffering realtor, dropped off the keys today. Escrow has closed, and we are finally home-owners. Wow.

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