Experiments In Aging: Industrial Casters
Immediately after I bought (and briefly dated) this old chicken coop, I started scouring the internet for some big industrial vintage casters. Let me tell
Immediately after I bought (and briefly dated) this old chicken coop, I started scouring the internet for some big industrial vintage casters. Let me tell
During the Great Migration of One-Thousand Tools that has occurred over the last several weeks, it became clear to me that this… Was lacking a
Back when I built the shelving for the closets in the Memorial House, I had this idea about building some custom doors for them that
A recurring theme here over the last couple of weeks has been watching me desperately trying to dig myself out from under a mountain of
As it turns out having ten closets in your house isn’t even remotely helpful in keeping your life in order if nine of them don’t
Creating this rustic wood wall art was a simple project when it came to building the panels and thinking up designs, but when it came
I’m working my way through several projects for my home office with the hope that, after a year of living in a garage, they might
I’d been having a little difficulty picking out mirrors for the master bath. And by “a little difficulty” I mean that I developed a twitch
Interior work brings with it the joy of figuring out how to attach two pieces of wood in a slightly more elegant manner than banging
“Let’s hang and finish some drywall!” Yeah. Here’s my guess at the three most common reactions to that statement: Your face squinched up. The blood
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
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
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
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
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
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Back in 2004 I started writing about my adventures in fixing up houses on the internet. A lot of things have changed since then, with me, with my houses, and with the internet. These days I am basically a cranky old man trapped in a slightly less old woman’s body. The internet has changed and I am staunchly refusing to change with it. You won’t find any algorithms here, or feeds, or ads, or social media. Just good old-fashioned stories about a woman drinking beer and building shit, and living an unexpected life.
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