Well, That’s Different
After a number of years with just exposed OSB subfloor (and a couple of rugs) as the flooring in my kitchen… It now has (part of) a floor. Do not be fooled by that picture. It is still mostly this… I have
Home Maintenance 101: Uncloging a Sink (Without Vomiting, Kind Of)
I’m going to start this post out with a disclaimer: If you’ve eaten recently, or are thinking about eating in the next, oh, eternity, you might want to skip this one. The following pictures may result in a loss of appetite, spontaneous
The Project List: Checking In & Picking Up (saws, not clothes)
Honestly, if I were a better person, I would be picking up the random piles of laundry strewn about the house instead of trying to take pictures of myself lifting my fifty pound miter saw up over my head. By the way,
Chicken Coop Turned Coffee Table
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 just doesn’t have the same ring to it. One thing I feel
The Little Farm Table That Could
I really feel like this one should be called “the little girl who heaved a table onto her back, ran across two lanes of traffic and a parking lot, and shoved it into her SUV while half of Ann Arbor stopped dead
Pipe Dreams: Bed & Bedroom Progress
Whereas the bedroom at Memorial was warm, spacious and inviting (or I like to think it was), the bedroom in the rental is a little bit… less. I gave it a coat of moonlight white, shoved my bed in there, and called
Hillside Cottage: Floor plans Part 2
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 so far… In late October I posted some ideas I had for
Out With The Old: A Look Back at the Beautiful Disaster of 2011
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 to describe what I looked like for the better part of the
The Great Property Search Continues
Here’s an idea: Spend two days eating sugar-laden Christmas treats, then take all that extra energy, put it in a car, and drive around in circles (on dirt roads) for a few hours. Go ahead and set that one on the shelf
Experiments In Aging: Industrial Casters
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 commanding a premium these days… turns out I’m not the first person
I Paid For Something Covered In Chicken Poop & Other Things That Make Me Laugh
I’m still working on the plans for Hillside Cottage, but one thing I know for sure is that I won’t have a closet quite the size of this gorgeous thing (or Narnia, for that matter) in the new place, and I’ve been
Tool Time: Must-Have Tools for Basic Electrical Work
I’m just going to admit right now that there has been more than one time in my life that I straightened out a bobby pin and tried to use it to unscrew a switch plate cover instead of digging through the Bermuda
By Tools, For Tools: Quick (and Fun) Wood Toolboxes
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 know, those of you that tend toward OCD just went into a
A Renter’s Life
Have I mentioned that it’s been a while since I lived in a house I didn’t own? Seven years, to be exact. And out of those seven years, I don’t think there has been even one day that I wasn’t working, scheming,
Home Maintenance 101: Uncloging a Sink (Without Vomiting, Kind Of)
I’m going to start this post out with a disclaimer: If you’ve eaten recently, or are thinking about eating in the next, oh, eternity, you might want to skip this one. The following pictures may result in a loss of appetite, spontaneous
The Project List: Checking In & Picking Up (saws, not clothes)
Honestly, if I were a better person, I would be picking up the random piles of laundry strewn about the house instead of trying to take pictures of myself lifting my fifty pound miter saw up over my head. By the way,
Chicken Coop Turned Coffee Table
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 just doesn’t have the same ring to it. One thing I feel
The Little Farm Table That Could
I really feel like this one should be called “the little girl who heaved a table onto her back, ran across two lanes of traffic and a parking lot, and shoved it into her SUV while half of Ann Arbor stopped dead
Pipe Dreams: Bed & Bedroom Progress
Whereas the bedroom at Memorial was warm, spacious and inviting (or I like to think it was), the bedroom in the rental is a little bit… less. I gave it a coat of moonlight white, shoved my bed in there, and called
Hillside Cottage: Floor plans Part 2
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 so far… In late October I posted some ideas I had for
Out With The Old: A Look Back at the Beautiful Disaster of 2011
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 to describe what I looked like for the better part of the
The Great Property Search Continues
Here’s an idea: Spend two days eating sugar-laden Christmas treats, then take all that extra energy, put it in a car, and drive around in circles (on dirt roads) for a few hours. Go ahead and set that one on the shelf
Experiments In Aging: Industrial Casters
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 commanding a premium these days… turns out I’m not the first person
I Paid For Something Covered In Chicken Poop & Other Things That Make Me Laugh
I’m still working on the plans for Hillside Cottage, but one thing I know for sure is that I won’t have a closet quite the size of this gorgeous thing (or Narnia, for that matter) in the new place, and I’ve been
Tool Time: Must-Have Tools for Basic Electrical Work
I’m just going to admit right now that there has been more than one time in my life that I straightened out a bobby pin and tried to use it to unscrew a switch plate cover instead of digging through the Bermuda
By Tools, For Tools: Quick (and Fun) Wood Toolboxes
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 know, those of you that tend toward OCD just went into a
A Renter’s Life
Have I mentioned that it’s been a while since I lived in a house I didn’t own? Seven years, to be exact. And out of those seven years, I don’t think there has been even one day that I wasn’t working, scheming,
