This is the message I left for my buddy Felix*, (Yes, the same Felix who exactly four months from this day decided to- gasp!- ask…

The wheelbarrow saga…You have to understand, I didn’t even have a good starting place when it came to tearing down that concrete pad, but I…

My Grandma stopped into work today. I’ll tell you– without false modestly– that I come from some Grade A stock. Mamie is a short walk…

It’s the nicest day of the year so far & I’m yearning for my back porch and pergola to be finished… or even started. I…

  I don’t care what you say, whether or not you’re a dog lover, or if you think I’m well on my way to becoming…

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…