Another project on the list of “things I should have finished in the last five years but didn’t” is the half-bath in the basement of the Garrison house. Sometimes when…

While working on my basement hallway transformation I was presented with a problem… Apparently I’ve gone from 20/20 vision to someone who considers this to be in focus. It’s either…

Maybe I should clarify that first part. “Last big project for the next two weeks at Garrison” is probably more appropriate. For the uninitiated, Garrison is the house I bought…

Spending some quality time sitting on the basement steps waxing philosophic about life and/or paintchips has become a part of my daily routine over the last week or so. Overall…

Granted, I have burns on two of them, and twin bruises on my shins, but MysteryMan will tell you I can sustain those kinds of injuries making myself a bowl…

… but not without a lot of swearing. Just like gravity is a law of Physics, the fact that one project will always lead to another is a law of…

But that isn’t to say the progress isn’t remarkable. Before the basement was a workshop: The “I took this picture after a glass of wine” shot of the workshop area:…

Obviously I’ve been spending hours at a time recently holed up in the utility portion of my basement getting high off the adhesive on the back of self-stick vinyl tiles. (Just…

For a while there I thought I may actually have lost my project-addiction, killed off by textbooks and lack of weekends. So it came as an immense relief when I…

The basement has pretty much served as a catchall for everything that has gone down in the last year… moving in, ripping the Adorable Red Cabinets out, painting, tiling, flooring,…

In my basement I am lucky enough to have a room with a hardwood floor and a fireplace. Unfortunately the crazy scotch-tape wielding previous owners (they’re like eighty, so on…