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How To Cope: Baseboard, That Is

Here’s a hint, unlike the other kind of coping you do when you spend a year living in a garage, this one doesn’t involve alcohol and mint chocolate chip icecream.Well….

How To Build a Pottery Barn Inspired Vanity

I think the most important thing on the list of stuff you need to build a vanity is the pervasive belief that you can, in fact, build a vanity. This…

Tile 101: How To Install SunTouch WarmWire Radiant Floor Heat

The cat and I both agree, there’s not a whole that can compare with walking barefoot into your bathroom and feeling a toasty warm floor under your toes. Or, in…

Tile 101: Installing Durock Tile Membrane

Getting the underlayment for a tile floor down may seem like a small achievement, but let’s just say that when you’re going on month twelve of living in a 400…

How To Create a Rustic White Wood Wall

So far the rustic white wood trim on these bathroom walls has been the easiest project of the house to tackle. With much less effort than, say, doing a left-handed…

April 12, 2011 | 3 Comments | Read the Full Article

Joinery 101: Making Dowel Joints

As much as I love all things relating to sawdust, for a long time my experience in joining two pieces of wood together was limited to things that could be…

A DIY Photoset: Rustic Window Trim

If you consider that I only have one window out of fourteen trimmed, my prospects of ever not living in a garage begin to look rather bleak. So this post…

March 14, 2011 | 0 Comments | Read the Full Article

DIY Walk-In Shower: Step 3- Prep For Tile

As it turns out, the steps in building a shower go pretty quickly after all of that “framing and then waiting around for an inspector to let you put walls…

January 28, 2011 | 3 Comments | Read the Full Article

Pretty Mud: Things You Need To Know About Decorative Concrete

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 of our house. Because the…

January 25, 2011 | 4 Comments | Read the Full Article

DIY Walk-In Shower: Step 2- Lining

We’ve come to the second part of the DIY shower adventure, and it’s only taken me four months from when I framed in the walls to get here. Hey. Don’t…

January 10, 2011 | 10 Comments | Read the Full Article

True Value DIY Rescue Mission: Replacing A Trick Faucet

When I was in college, we had a faucet. And not just your plain old run-of-the-mill two-handles-and-a-spigot, oh no, we had a trick faucet. If you pushed the handle on…

November 23, 2010 | 3 Comments | Read the Full Article

True Value DIY Rescue Mission: Installing a New Disposal

My poor mother hasn’t been able to use her master bathroom for a couple of months because I convinced her to take out the old, crappy bathroom cabinet, re-tile the…

November 17, 2010 | 4 Comments | Read the Full Article

DIY House Addition: How To Properly Flash & Trim Windows

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…

September 21, 2010 | 0 Comments | Read the Full Article
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