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Month: August 2021

Slipp desk – antique desk from a prominent New Brunswick family with a sad connection to a car accident

Posted on August 29, 2021August 11, 2023 by Carrie Stevenson

My husband needed a proper desk to work on. We scoured ads for antique desks for months but my husband is tall and sometimes the older desks just do not accommodate his long legs. Then this beauty came along. It’s a pretty cool desk made almost entirely without nails and all sort of snaps and…

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Restoring our kitchen at 5 Alexandra St. – made possible by the great people of Saint Awesome

Posted on August 11, 2021January 7, 2025 by Carrie Stevenson

Our home is fairly accurate to what it looked like in 1910 so I decided the kitchen, as the one room that had been changed, should be redressed.  We have no idea what the original kitchen looked like.  The only neighbour’s house with a relatively intact kitchen is a 1930s remodel (and a fairly fab…

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