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
A Donkey Shed in a Cloud
I’m still plugging away at taping drywall corners in the bathroom. Yes, it’s traumatizing, and no, I don’t want to talk about it. Particularly that part where I was using a cheap plastic spackling knife on the ceiling and the handle broke
Filling In The Hole
At some point this website is going to move beyond posts about holes, but that day is not today. We have exactly nine days until the building crew we hired shows up to help us rough frame the house. You heard me
You Ma’am Are Going To Lose a Finger
Put the drill down, and step away slowly. Every once in a while I get emails from people who want to give me ideas for things to write about on this website. Mostly I roll my eyes at these emails, because hey,
Laws of Physics and Real Estate
The laws of physics make this an excellent idea, particularly if you know how to defy gravity. Oh yeah. I’m the person who just yesterday caught my shoe on a blade of grass and slid through the front yard like a baseball
Future Addition, Or Moat
I’ve officially jumped right into the deep end of this project, and on one hand, finally, I’ve been talking about this for years. On the other hand, holyeffingshit that is a big hole in the yard. I’ve been deriving courage and DIY
THAT is a big hole
Still not sure how to get inside the house and get my work clothes on so I can grout the counter-top tonight. Foresight FAIL.
Friday Demolition Edition
It’s time to start the scariest part of the construction process, but also the most fun… DEMOLITION! If the weather holds– and it’s not supposed to, but that’s neither here nor there– we’re set to break ground today. That’s right, as you read
DIY House Addition: Step 2 – Getting Building Permits*
Sixty hours of sitting through contractors class and this is what I learned: No, you cannot rent an excavator and just start digging a bigass hole in the ground for your basement. You can’t build a deck…. And in the state of
Getting It Done: DIY on your Lunch Break
Work-life balance has never been one of my strengths. I like to work. Hard. And for most of my adult life that has translated into sixty-hour work weeks, and a little time left over to play with my tools and write about
Good News, Bad News
If you follow me on Twitter, yesterday you got to preview both the good news, and the part where for the second time in my life I wanted to squeeze an appraiser so hard his eyeballs pop out of his head. But
Determination To The Point of Stupidity
Alternative titles for this post: “Watch me beat the hell out of a piece of drywall”, “Things I should not post on the internet”, “When proving your point goes very, very wrong.” Here is something you have to own up to as
All Over The Place
This week could either be very exciting or very disastrous for our plans, depending on which way the wind blows. Figuratively. Literally depending on whether or not we get our building permits without a fuss, whether or not the weather holds for
Working Portraits: Tile and Cabinets and Saws, Oh my!
Bit by bit it’s started to sink in that with Garrison sold, very soon we will no longer have a warm, clean, finished space to come back to after hours of digging post holes or hanging drywall. Basically we have about 3
This Story has a Happy Ending
Two weeks ago my life could be summed up like this: I had people from Florida coming to look at my house in 3 weeks and needed to move all of my junk out of the house and finish up all miscellaneous
Basement Bathroom Before & After
Another project on the list of “things I should have finished in the last five years but didn’t” is the half-bath in the basement of the Garrison house. Sometimes when I look at pictures of what this house looked like before, am
A Donkey Shed in a Cloud
I’m still plugging away at taping drywall corners in the bathroom. Yes, it’s traumatizing, and no, I don’t want to talk about it. Particularly that part where I was using a cheap plastic spackling knife on the ceiling and the handle broke
Filling In The Hole
At some point this website is going to move beyond posts about holes, but that day is not today. We have exactly nine days until the building crew we hired shows up to help us rough frame the house. You heard me
You Ma’am Are Going To Lose a Finger
Put the drill down, and step away slowly. Every once in a while I get emails from people who want to give me ideas for things to write about on this website. Mostly I roll my eyes at these emails, because hey,
Laws of Physics and Real Estate
The laws of physics make this an excellent idea, particularly if you know how to defy gravity. Oh yeah. I’m the person who just yesterday caught my shoe on a blade of grass and slid through the front yard like a baseball
Future Addition, Or Moat
I’ve officially jumped right into the deep end of this project, and on one hand, finally, I’ve been talking about this for years. On the other hand, holyeffingshit that is a big hole in the yard. I’ve been deriving courage and DIY
THAT is a big hole
Still not sure how to get inside the house and get my work clothes on so I can grout the counter-top tonight. Foresight FAIL.
Friday Demolition Edition
It’s time to start the scariest part of the construction process, but also the most fun… DEMOLITION! If the weather holds– and it’s not supposed to, but that’s neither here nor there– we’re set to break ground today. That’s right, as you read
DIY House Addition: Step 2 – Getting Building Permits*
Sixty hours of sitting through contractors class and this is what I learned: No, you cannot rent an excavator and just start digging a bigass hole in the ground for your basement. You can’t build a deck…. And in the state of
Getting It Done: DIY on your Lunch Break
Work-life balance has never been one of my strengths. I like to work. Hard. And for most of my adult life that has translated into sixty-hour work weeks, and a little time left over to play with my tools and write about
Good News, Bad News
If you follow me on Twitter, yesterday you got to preview both the good news, and the part where for the second time in my life I wanted to squeeze an appraiser so hard his eyeballs pop out of his head. But
Determination To The Point of Stupidity
Alternative titles for this post: “Watch me beat the hell out of a piece of drywall”, “Things I should not post on the internet”, “When proving your point goes very, very wrong.” Here is something you have to own up to as
All Over The Place
This week could either be very exciting or very disastrous for our plans, depending on which way the wind blows. Figuratively. Literally depending on whether or not we get our building permits without a fuss, whether or not the weather holds for
Working Portraits: Tile and Cabinets and Saws, Oh my!
Bit by bit it’s started to sink in that with Garrison sold, very soon we will no longer have a warm, clean, finished space to come back to after hours of digging post holes or hanging drywall. Basically we have about 3
This Story has a Happy Ending
Two weeks ago my life could be summed up like this: I had people from Florida coming to look at my house in 3 weeks and needed to move all of my junk out of the house and finish up all miscellaneous
Basement Bathroom Before & After
Another project on the list of “things I should have finished in the last five years but didn’t” is the half-bath in the basement of the Garrison house. Sometimes when I look at pictures of what this house looked like before, am
