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
12 Months: Anatomy of Work Jeans
Oh, the things these jeans have seen over the last year. They read like a road map from a place where I was sane, normal, and mostly-showered, right up to today where I am decidedly not. So I’m kicking off my week
Vacation: Day 3
With the bedroom floor pretty much wrapped up (except for the last row of flooring which will need to be ripped down when we’re not experiencing wind gusts at 45 mph) I’ve moved on to finishing off the vanity doors. If only
Vacation: Day 1
This is the result of six hours of installing the bedroom floor, three inches at a time. It’s amazing what a difference some paint, window trim, and flooring can make, right? And in case you missed seeing this walnut floor finished off
Three Hundred and Sixty-Four
Just shy of a year ago we essentially dug a moat around our little 900 square foot house. We thought about just letting it fill up with water and buying a little raft to float around on, but instead we did this:
Vacation: Day 1/2
I’m staring at five full days off from the day-job, and we kicked it off right this afternoon by starting on the bedroom floor. Actually, we started off with a final coat of paint on the ceiling and then moved on to
How To Create a Rustic White Wood Wall
So far the rustic white wood trim on these bathroom walls has been the easiest project of the house to tackle. With much less effort than, say, doing a left-handed cope on some baseboard, it adds a layer of texture to the
Lots of Little Things
I know that it’s shocking– the fact that I might start several hundred projects around the house without actually finishing any of them– but this weekend, instead of being focused on One Big Thing, there was a lot of small stuff going
No One Should Be This Excited About Laundry
Those are our actual dirty socks, actually getting clean, in our actual real house. This is an epic moment in the Memorial house history, because it’s the first time in three years of owning the property that something has come out of
In Search of Floor Tile: Part 2
Among other things, the search for floor tile has now started to impact whether or not I can sleep for four hours without waking up in a cold sweat over the color of the bathroom floor. Currently, the answer to that question
My Favorite Things
I was taking a couple of in-progress shots of the house tonight when a glimpse out of the laundry room window revealed an excellent view of some of my very favorite things: Miniature donkeys and MysteryMan cruising down the street on a
In Search of Floor Tile
So yesterday I almost swallowed a bug. Almost swallowing a bug is worse than actually swallowing a bug because instead of being gone in an instant there is at least a millisecond where something with six legs is trapped between your tongue
A Weekend in the Bathroom
It’s where I spend all my time lately, and not in that “I had way to much fun last night” kind of way either. Unless you mean “I had way to much fun assembling a bathroom vanity last night and now I’m
March Miscellany
This week has been devoted to working late at my day job and putting a couple of coats of poly on the closet floor. I was going the show you the stunning transformation, but it actually doesn’t show up well in pictures
Move In Progress: Not Tomorrow
You may remember that twelve weeks ago, we set a move-in date for March. Tomorrow is the last day of March, and yet the tub still resides in my bedroom and the master bath looks like this… Which actually is not the
Joinery 101: Making Dowel Joints
As much as I love all things relating to sawdust, for a long time my experience in joining two pieces of wood together was limited to things that could be attached with framing nailer, a screw, or Gorilla Glue. Which may get
12 Months: Anatomy of Work Jeans
Oh, the things these jeans have seen over the last year. They read like a road map from a place where I was sane, normal, and mostly-showered, right up to today where I am decidedly not. So I’m kicking off my week
Vacation: Day 3
With the bedroom floor pretty much wrapped up (except for the last row of flooring which will need to be ripped down when we’re not experiencing wind gusts at 45 mph) I’ve moved on to finishing off the vanity doors. If only
Vacation: Day 1
This is the result of six hours of installing the bedroom floor, three inches at a time. It’s amazing what a difference some paint, window trim, and flooring can make, right? And in case you missed seeing this walnut floor finished off
Three Hundred and Sixty-Four
Just shy of a year ago we essentially dug a moat around our little 900 square foot house. We thought about just letting it fill up with water and buying a little raft to float around on, but instead we did this:
Vacation: Day 1/2
I’m staring at five full days off from the day-job, and we kicked it off right this afternoon by starting on the bedroom floor. Actually, we started off with a final coat of paint on the ceiling and then moved on to
How To Create a Rustic White Wood Wall
So far the rustic white wood trim on these bathroom walls has been the easiest project of the house to tackle. With much less effort than, say, doing a left-handed cope on some baseboard, it adds a layer of texture to the
Lots of Little Things
I know that it’s shocking– the fact that I might start several hundred projects around the house without actually finishing any of them– but this weekend, instead of being focused on One Big Thing, there was a lot of small stuff going
No One Should Be This Excited About Laundry
Those are our actual dirty socks, actually getting clean, in our actual real house. This is an epic moment in the Memorial house history, because it’s the first time in three years of owning the property that something has come out of
In Search of Floor Tile: Part 2
Among other things, the search for floor tile has now started to impact whether or not I can sleep for four hours without waking up in a cold sweat over the color of the bathroom floor. Currently, the answer to that question
My Favorite Things
I was taking a couple of in-progress shots of the house tonight when a glimpse out of the laundry room window revealed an excellent view of some of my very favorite things: Miniature donkeys and MysteryMan cruising down the street on a
In Search of Floor Tile
So yesterday I almost swallowed a bug. Almost swallowing a bug is worse than actually swallowing a bug because instead of being gone in an instant there is at least a millisecond where something with six legs is trapped between your tongue
A Weekend in the Bathroom
It’s where I spend all my time lately, and not in that “I had way to much fun last night” kind of way either. Unless you mean “I had way to much fun assembling a bathroom vanity last night and now I’m
March Miscellany
This week has been devoted to working late at my day job and putting a couple of coats of poly on the closet floor. I was going the show you the stunning transformation, but it actually doesn’t show up well in pictures
Move In Progress: Not Tomorrow
You may remember that twelve weeks ago, we set a move-in date for March. Tomorrow is the last day of March, and yet the tub still resides in my bedroom and the master bath looks like this… Which actually is not the
Joinery 101: Making Dowel Joints
As much as I love all things relating to sawdust, for a long time my experience in joining two pieces of wood together was limited to things that could be attached with framing nailer, a screw, or Gorilla Glue. Which may get
