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…

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 a few nails in and…

“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 curdled in your veins. You…

Well, I finally got out of my things-aren’t-working-out-the-way-I-planned funk about the concrete counters, which, if you remember had was preceded by a slight issue with stain. It wasn’t pretty… Before…

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 might have mentioned before that I’m a horrible daughter who has been absorbed in building her own house for a year. About the time we started building the house…

I have a long history of hauling the hundred-and-fifty pound air compressor around behind me as I try to hang window trim, door trim, and baseboard. I also have a…

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,…

Month 14 was officially the BIG month in the DIY House Addition Saga. It was the  ”I’m moving out of the garage and into a house” month. The “hey look,…

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…

It should come as no surprise that after the original tiling fiasco and the cutting of a hole in the last tile, that the master bathroom floor has been my…

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…