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
To Center or Not to Center: My Mom’s Great Sink Debate
I might have mentioned before that I’m a horrible daughter who has been absorbed in building her own house for a year. About the time we started building the house my Mom ripped apart her bathroom for what we thought would be
Declaring My Independence (From the Air Compressor)
I have a long history of hauling the hundred-and-fifty pound air compressor around behind me as I try to hang window trim, door trim, and baseboard. I also have a long history of swearing at it. This weekend I finally decided to
Death By Paint Swatch
I’m starting to believe that someone could suffocate in the number of paint swatches I’ve managed to accumulate over the last couple of weeks. That someone will probably be me, but I’m holding out until after the long weekend. While there’s so
DIY House Addition: Month 14 Wrap Up
Month 14 was officially the BIG month in the DIY House Addition Saga. It was the “I’m moving out of the garage and into a house” month. The “hey look, it takes more than ten steps to get from one side of
A Series of Unfortunate Events
Have I mentioned before that sometimes when you DIY things don’t go as planned? No? Well you can consider the last week of my life as a testament to that fact, starting with this counter. The Concrete Stain Debacle Immediately after installing
Finally, A Finished Floor
It should come as no surprise that after the original tiling fiasco and the cutting of a hole in the last tile, that the master bathroom floor has been my nemesis for the last few weeks. You may wonder how, if I
This Tile Floor Is My DIY Kryptonite
You may remember the last time I had anything to say about the tile floor in the master bathroom it was something along the lines of, “this floor makes me want to pull out fistfuls of my own hair and throw screwdrivers
How To Cope: Baseboard, That Is
Here’s a hint, unlike the other kind of coping you do when you spend a year living in a garage, this one doesn’t involve alcohol and mint chocolate chip icecream.Well. Okay, actually it may involve both. Particularly as a celebration if the
Finishing Floors: Cinderella Never Worked This Hard
Three inches at a time is a real fun way to cover four hundred square feet of floor space. It makes me understand the appeal for some people of buying a big role of carpet and having some burly dudes from the
It’s Not Just What’s Inside That Counts
At least, not in home-building. With any project of any size, as far as messes are concerned, things will always get worse before they get better. Half the time I think I’m doing something wrong if it doesn’t look like a sawdust
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 than opening a granola bar is concerned. It is working well for
A Livable Space
I hinted yesterday that I’m in the process of “moving in” to the house. There is one decent sized project to finish up before the final move– finishing the hardwood in the bedroom– but in the meantime I’ve been focusing on making
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 doesn’t have a door knob or door trim, but does contain finished
No Such Thing As Too Prepared (for storms or aliens)
I snapped this picture out of our front door last weekend, just minutes before an electric pole was knocked down across our street—bringing down with it our ability to turn on lights and flush the toilet—and stayed there for the next 24
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 time. But of course there is always that one hurdle to overcome
To Center or Not to Center: My Mom’s Great Sink Debate
I might have mentioned before that I’m a horrible daughter who has been absorbed in building her own house for a year. About the time we started building the house my Mom ripped apart her bathroom for what we thought would be
Declaring My Independence (From the Air Compressor)
I have a long history of hauling the hundred-and-fifty pound air compressor around behind me as I try to hang window trim, door trim, and baseboard. I also have a long history of swearing at it. This weekend I finally decided to
Death By Paint Swatch
I’m starting to believe that someone could suffocate in the number of paint swatches I’ve managed to accumulate over the last couple of weeks. That someone will probably be me, but I’m holding out until after the long weekend. While there’s so
DIY House Addition: Month 14 Wrap Up
Month 14 was officially the BIG month in the DIY House Addition Saga. It was the “I’m moving out of the garage and into a house” month. The “hey look, it takes more than ten steps to get from one side of
A Series of Unfortunate Events
Have I mentioned before that sometimes when you DIY things don’t go as planned? No? Well you can consider the last week of my life as a testament to that fact, starting with this counter. The Concrete Stain Debacle Immediately after installing
Finally, A Finished Floor
It should come as no surprise that after the original tiling fiasco and the cutting of a hole in the last tile, that the master bathroom floor has been my nemesis for the last few weeks. You may wonder how, if I
This Tile Floor Is My DIY Kryptonite
You may remember the last time I had anything to say about the tile floor in the master bathroom it was something along the lines of, “this floor makes me want to pull out fistfuls of my own hair and throw screwdrivers
How To Cope: Baseboard, That Is
Here’s a hint, unlike the other kind of coping you do when you spend a year living in a garage, this one doesn’t involve alcohol and mint chocolate chip icecream.Well. Okay, actually it may involve both. Particularly as a celebration if the
Finishing Floors: Cinderella Never Worked This Hard
Three inches at a time is a real fun way to cover four hundred square feet of floor space. It makes me understand the appeal for some people of buying a big role of carpet and having some burly dudes from the
It’s Not Just What’s Inside That Counts
At least, not in home-building. With any project of any size, as far as messes are concerned, things will always get worse before they get better. Half the time I think I’m doing something wrong if it doesn’t look like a sawdust
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 than opening a granola bar is concerned. It is working well for
A Livable Space
I hinted yesterday that I’m in the process of “moving in” to the house. There is one decent sized project to finish up before the final move– finishing the hardwood in the bedroom– but in the meantime I’ve been focusing on making
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 doesn’t have a door knob or door trim, but does contain finished
No Such Thing As Too Prepared (for storms or aliens)
I snapped this picture out of our front door last weekend, just minutes before an electric pole was knocked down across our street—bringing down with it our ability to turn on lights and flush the toilet—and stayed there for the next 24
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 time. But of course there is always that one hurdle to overcome
