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Man-Cave Bathroom Style: Revealed!

New drywall, tile, windows, fixtures, floor, bead-board, and one urinal later, and I can officially say the man-cave bathroom the most complete room in any of the four buildings on…

August 10, 2010 | 31 Comments | Read the Full Article

Advice From The DIY Crazy & The Not: Bathroom Carpet Removal

Okay, so there’s one problem with asking someone who compulsively buys powertools and starts projects about whether or not you should: Rip out carpet Tear down walls Rebuild your entire…

Tile 101: How to Install Mosaic Wall Tile (Or any kind, really.)

Swear to god, I went three years of my life without ever picking up a grout float, and then bam bam bam…bam bam…bam… 1677 one-inch mosaic tiles (and five other…

Basement Bathroom Before & After

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…

March 18, 2010 | 5 Comments | Read the Full Article

Contemplating Life in a Gas Station

Feel free to count “moving from my refinished 3 bedroom house into a half-finished one room gas station” among the things I thought I never be doing in my thirtieth…

January 15, 2010 | 8 Comments | Read the Full Article

Station Progress: Let’s call it halfway.

Since we decided to hold off on breaking ground on the actual house, we’ve put all of our energy into turning the station into a livable space. In the last…

September 9, 2009 | 0 Comments | Read the Full Article

Reason #372 Why I Don’t Clean

Intro Maybe you haven’t been around here long enough to notice, but I don’t generally take on small projects. Mostly not even regular sized projects. And definitely hardly ever maintenance…

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 Everyone in the construction industry around Northwest Ohio and Southeast Michigan just realized it was spring… There’ s no happy medium at the block plant, either we’re dead slow and…

Oh. Dear. God.

There is no other way to put this. I broke my house.Let me explain the sequence of events here: 1.) Go to Vegas for my first vacation in 2 years….

January 27, 2005 | 1 Comment | Read the Full Article
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