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
Utility Room Zen & Kung Fu Nailing
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 Cabinets out, painting, tiling, flooring, plastering, and moving one extra-tall boyfriend in (and then out again). Then
DIY Weekend Project: Make a Desk out of a Door.
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 dropping a couple grand on a solid wood desk sounded appealing, my compulsion for using tools kicked
Crooked Broom
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. The other is that of the 7 closets in the house, 6 of them are located upstairs.
My Red Lipstick
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, I can only imagine what the the rest of the book is like, and I desperately need
Basement Transformation
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 (they’re like eighty, so on one hand I feel bad calling them crazy, on the other hand
The Crooked Kitchen
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 stripes for the dining room, hanging cabinets, painting diamonds in the vestibule– has ended up a little
Wherein I Lose My Shit Over a Backsplash
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, cutting 164 tiny slices of tile myself because the contractor told me it “couldn’t be done” and
Back to Business & Bathrooms
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, either we’re dead slow and everyone bitches about hours, or we’re trying to push out nineteen loads
The Life-Cycle of a Kitchen
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 ground, wilts, and then dies. As far as my kitchen goes, this is the growing up and
Oh. Dear. God.
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 first vacation in 2 years. 2.) Come home four days later to a house that is 31
How to get rid of a Smell
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 out the carpet, and paint every wall you can reach. Then find a ladder and paint all
Demolition
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 in the wall was to cover it with scotch tape and paint over it. Sidenote: If you
Utility Room Zen & Kung Fu Nailing
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 Cabinets out, painting, tiling, flooring, plastering, and moving one extra-tall boyfriend in (and then out again). Then
DIY Weekend Project: Make a Desk out of a Door.
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 dropping a couple grand on a solid wood desk sounded appealing, my compulsion for using tools kicked
Crooked Broom
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. The other is that of the 7 closets in the house, 6 of them are located upstairs.
My Red Lipstick
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, I can only imagine what the the rest of the book is like, and I desperately need
Basement Transformation
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 (they’re like eighty, so on one hand I feel bad calling them crazy, on the other hand
The Crooked Kitchen
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 stripes for the dining room, hanging cabinets, painting diamonds in the vestibule– has ended up a little
Wherein I Lose My Shit Over a Backsplash
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, cutting 164 tiny slices of tile myself because the contractor told me it “couldn’t be done” and
Back to Business & Bathrooms
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, either we’re dead slow and everyone bitches about hours, or we’re trying to push out nineteen loads
The Life-Cycle of a Kitchen
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 ground, wilts, and then dies. As far as my kitchen goes, this is the growing up and
Oh. Dear. God.
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 first vacation in 2 years. 2.) Come home four days later to a house that is 31
How to get rid of a Smell
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 out the carpet, and paint every wall you can reach. Then find a ladder and paint all
Demolition
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 in the wall was to cover it with scotch tape and paint over it. Sidenote: If you
