Building a house takes many things– tools, patience, several cases of beer, and most importantly, a plan. In the last couple of years I’ve worked…

Month 14 was officially the BIG month in the DIY House Addition Saga. It was the  “I’m moving out of the garage and into a…

Back when we first broke ground on this house adventure and people would ask when we were going to be done, I’d casually wave a…

Whew. We’re rapidly approaching a year of construction on the Memorial House, and isn’t it crazy how time flies when you’re covered in dirt uh,…

It’s possible that I almost had a minor breakdown when we had to choose the colors and patterns for the concrete that surrounds almost half…

It’s a pretty sure bet that when I’m talking about DIYing a house addition and/or living in a garage, I’m going to make some sarcastic…

I’ve been talking about the impending deep-freeze for months and hey look, we’ve entered the 2010 ice age in Southern Michigan. Unfortunately Month 8 is…

I equate soffit building (particularly those funky boxes on the corners) as the house-building equivalent of being attacked by a shark. One minute you’re all…

Fall took its time standing on the edge of beautiful sunny weekends, taunting us with cloudless days and feathery breezes… and then that bitch took…

I can’t really accurately describe the blissful days of hanging siding that the weekend consisted of if I don’t tell you a little bit about…

We’re almost six months to the day from when we hired a guy with a bigass excavator to come over a dig a moat around…

Just in case you were thinking that when you choose to DIY a house addition you drop off the face of the planet after Wednesday,…

We had a singularly uneventful Wednesday right up until I learned 1.) We have bugs in our water, and 2.) J.Lo and I have now…

Tuesday’s burning question was “dear god, is our concrete going to be purple?” and don’t worry, we’ll get to that. Right after the part about…

Ever wonder what a week is like in the life of people who juggle full time jobs, part time contracting on their house, after-midnight blogging,…