When we were in Texas this time last year, we made one of the greatest finds for the new house to date, which was promptly overshadowed by the stress of…

Cheryl made a good point yesterday that I gave you a look at the house progress, but haven’t shown much of the donkey pasture. I think my excuse is that,…

I’m shocked and appalled at the lack of interior “before” pictures that I have, but this is shot-for-shot as close as I can get to a before-and-in-progress tour. Exterior If…

In the spirit of celebrating the fact that we survived three hundred and sixty-five days of construction, here’s what it looks like when a bearded dude and short slightly-overbearing powertool…

Among other things I spent a little time working on the master bath vanity today. With two sinks this beast is supposed to be 84″ long, and if you’ve ever…

Oh, the things these jeans have seen over the last year. They read like a road map from a place where I was sane, normal, and mostly-showered, right up to…

With the bedroom floor pretty much wrapped up (except for the last row of flooring which will need to be ripped down when we’re not experiencing wind gusts at 45…

This is the result of six hours of installing the bedroom floor, three inches at a time. It’s amazing what a difference some paint, window trim, and flooring can make,…

Just shy of a year ago we essentially dug a moat around our little 900 square foot house. We thought about just letting it fill up with water and buying…

I’m staring at five full days off from the day-job, and we kicked it off right this afternoon by starting on the bedroom floor. Actually, we started off with a…

I know that it’s shocking– the fact that I might start several hundred projects around the house without actually finishing any of them– but this weekend, instead of being focused…

Those are our actual dirty socks, actually getting clean, in our actual real house. This is an epic moment in the Memorial house history, because it’s the first time in…

Among other things, the search for floor tile has now started to impact whether or not I can sleep for four hours without waking up in a cold sweat over…