Kitchen Question: Black or White?
At some point I'm going to want to be able to cook somewhere other than the back yard. Possibly. And that's going to require doing some serious work to this room... So, (read more...)
Would you cook here?
As you can imagine, I used the long weekend to my advantage, working 10 hour days between the Memorial House and Garrison Road. I actually spent quite a lot more (read more...)
Memorial House: Demolition Begins
As always, stories that end up with me demolishing the hell out of something start out with, "What happened was...." So. What happened was... I decided it was time to plan and build (read more...)
Sonofa…
This post is a lesson in "be very careful what you wish for." For example, if you frequently write posts in your blog about DIY projects and how you like to (read more...)
Nook.
It's been a while since I last posted. That lull I was talking about ended with a vengeance, and I haven't had much time for anything besides work, house, and (read more...)
The Crooked Kitchen
Academically speaking, I know that the walls in my house aren't straight. I mean, anything we've tried to do that requires straight walls-- marking off stripes for the dining room, (read more...)
Wherein I break a box of tile over a contractors head.
You want to know why I'm a firm believer in DIY? This is why.I have been working my butt off at the house. Plastering, painting, cutting 164 tiny slices of tile (read more...)
The Life-Cycle of a Kitchen
The Life-Cycle of a Kitchen I picture this post as a kind of time-lapse video where the flower grows up from a seed in the ground, wilts, and then dies. As (read more...)
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. 2.) Come (read more...)
What can I say? I love this drill. Along with every other tool in my 
