The basement has pretty much served as a catchall for everything that has gone down in the last year… moving in, ripping the Adorable Red…

When I decided to turn my basement room into an office, there was one key piece of furniture I was missing: A desk. And while…

There are a couple of design issues that occur in an 80 year old house. One of them is that there are no open spaces….

I recently read an excerpt from a book called something like “Why I wore lipstick to my masectomy surgery.” If that one chapter was so incredibly profound,…

It’s been a while since I last posted. That lull I was talking about ended with a vengeance, and I haven’t had much time for…

In my basement I am lucky enough to have a room with a hardwood floor and a fireplace. Unfortunately the crazy scotch-tape wielding previous owners…

Academically speaking, I know that the walls in my house aren’t straight. I mean, anything we’ve tried to do that requires straight walls– marking off…

You want to know why I’m a firm believer in DIY? This is why. I have been working my butt off at the house. Plastering, painting,…

Everyone in the construction industry around Northwest Ohio and Southeast Michigan just realized it was spring… There’ s no happy medium at the block plant,…

 The Life-Cycle of a Kitchen I picture this post as a kind of time-lapse video where the flower grows up from a seed in the…

There is no other way to put this. I broke my house.Let me explain the sequence of events here: 1.) Go to Vegas for my…

In the world of eighty year old homes lived in by other people, there is only one sure way to get rid of a Smell. Throw…

I bought a house that was previously owned by color-blind, shelf-happy, eighty year old people who thought that the best way to patch a hole…