No. Not property to build my Hillside Cottage on, but an actual house. A 150 year old brick farmhouse, to be exact. With one bigass barn, a falling-down garage, and…

When I decided to rent an old farm house with a bunch of falling down buildings on the property there was a general debate going on in my family about…

First of all, I am admittedly not a chicken expert (yet) but I’m pretty sure this isn’t actually a “coop”. It’s probably more of a chicken-packing-crate or something, but that…

It’s been a little over a month since I fell in love with shared the first version of the future Hillside Cottage floor plans. Here’s how the process has gone…

Just so we’re clear from the start, the “beautiful” part of 2011 was definitely how the Memorial House turned out, and, well, I think “disaster” is the only accurate way…

Immediately after I bought (and briefly dated) this old chicken coop, I started scouring the internet for some big industrial vintage casters. Let me tell you this, vintage casters are…

During the Great Migration of One-Thousand Tools that has occurred over the last several weeks, it became clear to me that this… Was lacking a certain amount of organization. I…

Back when I built the shelving for the closets in the Memorial House, I had this idea about building some custom doors for them that mimic the style of the…

Building a house takes many things– tools, patience, several cases of beer, and most importantly, a plan. In the last couple of years I’ve worked with a number of tradesmen…

It might seem a little strange that even though I don’t have a working kitchen (or even really the hope of having a working kitchen anytime soon) I just had…

A couple of weeks ago when I started drawing little planets on torn out book pages, I had no idea what I was going to actually do with them. I…

A recurring theme here over the last couple of weeks has been watching me desperately trying to dig myself out from under a mountain of unorganized papers, which pretty much…

Creating this rustic wood wall art was a simple project when it came to building the panels and thinking up designs, but when it came to pulling the trigger and…