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Plumbing 101: Installing a Delta Touch20 Faucet

This post is a long time coming. Almost two years, in fact, since I was invited to visit the Delta Faucet Headquarters with a bunch of awesome bloggers, and decided…

Liberty House: The Surprising Kitchen

There was a point in time where I thought I’d be jumping up and down in joy (having cleared the remaining red tape from this house without being jailed for…

February 29, 2012 | 25 Comments | Read the Full Article

Kitchen Progress: Paint & Counters

Let me just say that not much could top the finish and luxury of the half-inch plywood that has been standing in place of counters in the kitchen for, oh,…

October 16, 2011 | 5 Comments | Read the Full Article

The Unexpected Kitchen: Progress

Having the kitchen cabinets in makes a world of a difference in the way the house looks, even if its a completely non-functioning space as far as anything more complicated…

Rustic Beachy Full Bath: Reveal!

This room deserves at least one exclamation point for being the first (and currently only) room in the house that can be considered “complete”. Which, in this case, means it…

Assembling a Corner Sink Base Cabinet

Making an impromptu decision to install the kitchen cabinets last weekend was one of the most fun and satisfying projects that has been tackled in this house for a long…

And Now, Hardware

If you follow DIYdiva.net on Facebook, then you know exactly what MysteryMan said after he helped the dudes unload this veritable sea of cabinet boxes from the delivery truck on…

February 28, 2011 | 13 Comments | Read the Full Article

Kitchen: Check This Off The List

I mean, not the “done” list… I’m ambitious, but I’m not superwoman. Most days, at least. But I can check “kitchen cabinets” off the the list of decisions that have…

January 23, 2011 | 7 Comments | Read the Full Article

Kitchen Cabinet Plan

So we’re planning on taking the big kitchen cabinet leap soon. Soon-ish. Maybe this year sometime. Or, you know, I might just set up some sawhorses and plywood in there…

January 6, 2011 | 30 Comments | Read the Full Article

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…

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…

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…

April 17, 2009 | 3 Comments | Read the Full Article

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…

February 2, 2009 | 2 Comments | Read the Full Article
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