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 vomit. 6:00 AM – Let’s…
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 vomit. 6:00 AM – Let’s…
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, and slightly more alcohol consumption…
There’s nothing like having a few gaping holes in the perfectly good exterior walls of your house during rainy season to make you fully appreciate that windows in your house…
I’d like to be writing a really witty and/or eloquent opening sentence to this monthly wrap-up, but I’m having a hard time typing through the utter and complete panic I’m…
Foundations are fun, I agree, and not just because 1.) you get to dig a bigass hole in the ground, and 2.) my family owns a foundation company. Actually, I…
Apparently month 2 got lost somewhere in the framing, fascia, roofing, and sawdust. Time sure flies when you’re having fun working a couple of jobs and building a house. While…
So the ink is barely dry on your building permit and you’re ready to break out the excavator and start digging? If you just read that sentence and said, “What…
The reality is, we’ve been working on this addition mentally and financially for over a year, and those two items cannot be overemphasized. In the last month the workload hasn’t…
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…
As I find myself being slowly buried in a pile of blueprints, how-to books, torn-out magazine pages, and contractor’s licensing forms, I can’t decide if waiting until Spring to break-ground…
The Story: In the last couple of weeks a few things happened in succession which made the two of us take a long hard look at what we wanted, and…
The Story: We say we’ve been seriously contemplating the addition for about a year, but it’s really been a month since we’ve begun to formulate anything resembling a workable plan….
The alternate title to this post could be “How an Angel Architect Saved our Sanity”. So here’s my first bit of advice to anyone who is DIYing an addition to…
