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Built-Ins In The Bathroom (I don’t know if that’s a statement or a question)

You may have noticed on my Master List that there are at least three rooms in the Liberty House that will eventually have built-in shelves and storage. I need places…

Work Your Ass Off & Never Give Up

I don’t often repin cute little sayings on Pinterest, but every once in a while one catches my eye. (Actually, I take that back, I just checked out my Words…

Power Tool & Project Fix: Cordless Finish Nailer Edition

Some of you Family Handyman subscribers may have gotten your March magazines last week (or two weeks ago? time really flies when you’re unexpectedly buying houses online) and wondered why…

February 28, 2012 | 4 Comments | Read the Full Article

What My Future Farm House Might Look Like

So, I might have gotten a little ahead of myself about posting interior pics today. I hope you’ll forgive me, but it was wishful thinking that things would move faster…

February 10, 2012 | 20 Comments | Read the Full Article

An Unexpected Adventure: The Extended Version

I know, I know, I kind of dropped a little bomb in the middle of the “Hey I’m going to buy some vacant land and build a garage on it”…

February 8, 2012 | 56 Comments | Read the Full Article

A Single Girl’s Guide To Country Living & House Features

Here’s how I kicked off the week. I already had a jump-start on feeling awesome with the successful Moonshine Lamp project that I knocked out over the weekend and I…

February 1, 2012 | 16 Comments | Read the Full Article

A Different Kind of DIY

That silence you hear is the sound of me blinking forty-seven times at the prospect of DIY that doesn’t involve power tools and sawdust. My brain has a hard time…

January 4, 2012 | 6 Comments | Read the Full Article

Sawdust: Like Crazy, But Smells Better

There is so much crazy in the air right now, I can hardly see twelve inches in front of me. Oh wait. Maybe that’s sawdust. Either way, I might have…

November 14, 2011 | 5 Comments | Read the Full Article

Weekend Work

It’s not going to be too long before outdoor work is going to require three layers of long-underwear and my awesome (yet gender neutralizing) Carhartt bibs. So that’s something to…

October 24, 2011 | 4 Comments | Read the Full Article

Updates, Freebies, Backups, and Good Advice

No kidding, in the last 48 hours I’ve cleaned almost 90,000 infected files off of my computer, which is still not working. Ninety thousand. Needless to say, I haven’t been…

October 3, 2011 | 2 Comments | Read the Full Article

In, Out, Up, Down

This weekend was all over the place in a glorious mixture of projects that involved tomatoes, a toilet, the kitchen, and a thousand-pound armoire. Right? Craziness. My favorite state of…

September 12, 2011 | 11 Comments | Read the Full Article

5 Ways To Get Out of the 168 Hour Funk

Judging by the title of this post I feel like I should be writing about something that occurs in long-forgotten gym bags, but you can unplug your nose because my…

September 8, 2011 | 6 Comments | Read the Full Article

It’s Funny Because It’s True

A few weeks ago I mentioned that 3M recently launched a Couple Speak contest where you can submit a video (for a chance at a $5000 prize) or submit a…

September 5, 2011 | 7 Comments | Read the Full Article
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