The Storybook House – Page 2

My Favorite Things & Zen Laundry Room Part II

October 29, 2008 5 Comments

I got in my car after work the other day, put my computer bag in the passenger seat, and then started laughing hysterically. Who on

Hopefully the last time in my life I have to rip up stink carpet.

August 24, 2008 3 Comments

So, I’m not sure when in life there actually was enough hours in the day for me to get done everything I wanted to get

Likes to get her fingers dirty (with mortar)…

June 13, 2008 9 Comments

A couple of weeks ago I started my big summer project (big being a very relative term as it definitely is not as big as, say,

Reason #372 Why I Don’t Clean

May 9, 2008 14 Comments

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.

Redemption

April 8, 2008 3 Comments

Mother nature decided to cut us a break here in Ohio, and the last four days have been so beautiful I almost feel human again.

Looks like someplace you could work in…

February 12, 2008 5 Comments

Let’s go back in time to September of 2007, when the office looked like this: Mmmm, stained wood floors, walls and trim painted a dirty

Now THAT’S a color.

January 31, 2008 7 Comments

It’s hard to capture paint color at night (or ever) with a camera, so I’ll give you the with- and without-flash shots both to give

Wherein my sanity is tested by toothpicks and popsicle sticks…

January 19, 2008 9 Comments

I’ve decided that getting the office painted and set up upstairs is the next logical project to take on in the house. I’ve also learned

That girl can drywall…

January 16, 2008 10 Comments

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

Just about had my fill of stick tiles…

January 9, 2008 5 Comments

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”

Basement Floor (aka Fun with Stick Tiles!)

January 3, 2008 7 Comments

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

DIY: How To Cope Crown Molding Joints with a Dremmel

January 1, 2008 36 Comments

DISCLAIMER: I am not a professional carpenter, woodworker, or crown molding hanger. I’m just a girl with a dremmel, some rotozip bits, and a miter

DIY Fridays

December 31, 2007 1 Comment

It seems I have finally gotten back into the swing of things. I’d been sitting around just kind of waiting for the jet lag to

I knew there was beauty in you…

September 17, 2007 1 Comment

The alternate title for this post was “Master Disaster, Part XXIII” because as we all know, on Garrison Road, things always get worse before they

Badass Pergola COMPLETE!

May 31, 2007 13 Comments

Memorial weekend was one of those power weekends, even though it started out raining, and the patio stones we had meticulously cleared two weekends ago now looked like

I'm not interested in a mediocre life. I'm here to kick ass or die.

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THE STORYTELLER

Back in 2004 I started writing about my adventures in fixing up houses on the internet. A lot of things have changed since then, with me, with my houses, and with the internet. These days I am basically a cranky old man trapped in a slightly less old woman’s body. The internet has changed and I am staunchly refusing to change with it. You won’t find any algorithms here, or feeds, or ads, or social media. Just good old-fashioned stories about a woman drinking beer and building shit, and living an unexpected life.

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