Bit by bit it’s started to sink in that with Garrison sold, very soon we will no longer have a warm, clean, finished space to come back to after hours…

The other day I was eating a bag of peanut M&Ms when this rolled out of the bag and into my hand. And I thought, no… it couldn’t be… Two…

Two weeks ago my life could be summed up like this: I had people from Florida coming to look at my house in 3 weeks and needed to move all…

Another project on the list of “things I should have finished in the last five years but didn’t” is the half-bath in the basement of the Garrison house. Sometimes when…

While working on my basement hallway transformation I was presented with a problem… Apparently I’ve gone from 20/20 vision to someone who considers this to be in focus. It’s either…

Maybe I should clarify that first part. “Last big project for the next two weeks at Garrison” is probably more appropriate. For the uninitiated, Garrison is the house I bought…

We have potential buyers coming in to look at the house, all the way from my old stomping grounds in Florida. Next week. Maybe I haven’t been clear about the…

Note: All of the images on my last couple of posts have been returned to an appropriate size so that you’re not scrolling through a post and bam! there’s 4000…

The benefit of snatching a handful of hours over the last week to cut, lay, and grout tile on my basement floor, is that I can now share with you…

I admit to being slightly stumped in the “unfinished cabinet aisle” at Lowe’s as I started counting out the sizes for sink bases. Thirty-six inch, thirty inch… um… twenty-four? Anyone?…

“There’s a gas station and some donkeys and, you’re doing what with a miter saw?” Holyoke Home asked (very politely) for me to please explain myself, because I write most…

Right up until the moment I groggily opened my left eyeball to check my email on Friday morning I believed I was going to spend the better part of this…