This past weekend I’m in the middle of my normal Sunday routine, which is to say I’m making the 5th of 8 trips to Lowe’s, and something shocking happened…. let…

It is the question, but the title of this series is DIY House Addition, so it’s almost like I’ve already given you the answer, isn’t it? But not so fast…

I’m still plugging away at taping drywall corners in the bathroom. Yes, it’s traumatizing, and no, I don’t want to talk about it. Particularly that part where I was using…

No, not the house, something even better…

At some point this website is going to move beyond posts about holes, but that day is not today. We have exactly nine days until the building crew we hired…

Put the drill down, and step away slowly. Every once in a while I get emails from people who want to give me ideas for things to write about on…

The laws of physics make this an excellent idea, particularly if you know how to defy gravity. Oh yeah. I’m the person who just yesterday caught my shoe on a…

MysteryMan and I have an ongoing battle about whether or not to leave the blade guard on the table saw. I can tell you I vote for the blade guard…

I’ve officially jumped right into the deep end of this project, and on one hand, finally, I’ve been talking about this for years. On the other hand, holyeffingshit that is…

Still not sure how to get inside the house and get my work clothes on so I can grout the counter-top tonight. Foresight FAIL.

We ‘re starting on the scariest part of the construction process, but also the most fun… DEMOLITION! If the weather holds– and it’s not supposed to, but that’s neither here…

Sixty hours of sitting through contractors class and this is what I learned: No, you cannot rent an excavator and just start digging a bigass hole in the ground for…

Work-life balance has never been one of my strengths. I like to work. Hard. And for most of my adult life that has translated into sixty-hour work weeks, and a…