It’s that time of year! Put down your oven mitts and drop that turkey because Christmas trees are arriving on Capitol Hill. I know in our community we have people following various traditions about when to put a tree up in their homes, but the trees are arriving early this year and we are fortunate [...]
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When a Frager’s employee approached me and asked me to follow him upstairs I felt as though I was being asked to meet the wizard behind the curtain. This would be the last stop on my tour: a meeting with John Weintraub, one of two owners of Capitol Hill’s Frager’s Hardware. I walked into the [...]
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I’ve heard it said before, and I’ll say it again—Frager’s Hardware has everything you’ll ever need. However, should you find yourself in need of a carpet cleaner, ladder, popcorn machine, electric lawn mower or gas powered chain saw, but you don’t have room to store such things in your tiny row home, than you can [...]
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I have lived in my house for five years and in those five years I have painted the 10 rooms and two hallways in my house a total of 18 times. We painted the rooms in our house when we first moved in the summer of 2005. I repainted our kitchen when we updated the [...]
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On more than one occasion I have walked into Frager’s with a vague description of the item I just had to have. “I need a thing for drywall, a screw, but it should say ‘Bull’s Eye’ on the box. Do you have something like that?” The request, made by me on my husband’s behalf, didn’t [...]
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When I set out to spend the day working at Frager’s, I planned to do real work. However, instead of lifting bags of mulch, stacking boxes or answering customers’ questions, I spent four hours talking to some of the store’s many employees and learned not only why I want to work at Frager’s but why [...]
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When my husband and I first moved to our home on G Street our neighbor asked us what we had planned for the house, which needed a good amount of work. We rattled off a laundry list of things we planned to address —for the record only a few items have actually been checked off [...]
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