Last weekend wasn’t all fun and playing with jigs, you know. There was serious work to be done to get the Master Bath ready for some actual bathroom fixtures. For…

I have this love/hate relationship with school. I don’t love sitting in classrooms, but I don’t seem to be able to stop myself from going back. After my undergrad I…

I don’t know if was the best idea to put the office– possibly the most cluttered area of the house, second to  the workshop, of course– positioned wide open to…

I’m starting to believe that someone could suffocate in the number of paint swatches I’ve managed to accumulate over the last couple of weeks. That someone will probably be me,…

Have I mentioned before that sometimes when you DIY things don’t go as planned? No? Well you can consider the last week of my life as a testament to that…

You may remember the last time I had anything to say about the tile floor in the master bathroom it was something along the lines of, “this floor makes me…

Three inches at a time is a real fun way to cover four hundred square feet of floor space. It makes me understand the appeal for some people of buying…

At least, not in home-building. With any project of any size, as far as messes are concerned, things will always get worse before they get better. Half the time I…

Having the kitchen cabinets in makes a world of a difference in the way the house looks, even if its a completely non-functioning space as far as anything more complicated…

I hinted yesterday that I’m in the process of “moving in” to the house. There is one decent sized project to finish up before the final move– finishing the hardwood…

This room deserves at least one exclamation point for being the first (and currently only) room in the house that can be considered “complete”. Which, in this case, means it…

Unlike most mothers who got breakfast in bed or a day at the spa, my mother came over to the house on Sunday and was promptly put to work installing…

It’s time for me to grab my pillow and sleeping bag and go camp out in the master closet in our not-finished house. Why? It’s roughly the same size as…