DIY Home Basics: Installing a new sink faucet & drain
Ah, the miracles of running water. You don’t fully appreciate it until you have to wash your dishes in a bucket with the garden hose
Ah, the miracles of running water. You don’t fully appreciate it until you have to wash your dishes in a bucket with the garden hose
Tuesday night I was installing a light fixture in our reallyclosetobeingdone bathroom. Because I’m just few short inches over the 5-foot mark, anything that has
Granite sounds all well and good until you hear $30 per linear foot and your eyeballs pop out of your head. I’ve tiled almost every
It may start to seem like all we do around here is loll about in the sun. It’s not far from the truth… we do
Maybe I’ve mentioned once or twice that I spent the last several weeks packing up the last twenty-nine years of my life and moving it
I haven’t been getting a lot of sleep lately, which I suppose is to be expected with our family of four adjusting to life in
Well, the time has come my story-book house on Garrison Road… It’s been almost 6 years since I took the plunge and bought my first
Maybe I’ve mentioned this a time or two before, but I’ve got a small compulsion when it comes to buying tools. I spot a biscuit
Shortly after the astounding pile of rubble was cleared from the inside of the living room, the house started to look like, well, a house.
There are parts about living in an unfinished garage on a busy country road that are less than ideal. The fact that I can’t get
Swear to god, I went three years of my life without ever picking up a grout float, and then bam bam bam…bam bam…bam… 1677 one-inch
The big news for Memorial Weekend is not that I ate birthday cake for breakfast AND lunch three days in a row without collapsing from
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