Who doesn’t hate vinyl storm windows? Seriously. They’re ugly and they don’t work well. Because we kick it old school, we ordered a custom-made set of traditional wooden storm windows from Adams Architectural. Continue reading Storms of the Century
Strippin’ in my free time
My baseboards project is taking a lot less time than I expected. Between that and totally missing the smell of singed paint, I decided to strip a doorframe or two while I’m on vacation. Here’s the bathroom doorframe: before, during, and after. Continue reading Strippin’ in my free time
A Restorative Vacation
After a couple of ridiculously tough months of work, I’m on vacation this week. And like the Good Book says, there’s no better remedy for creative burn-out than a week of manual labor.
So this week, I’m staining, shellacking, cutting, and installing the cap and shoe for our living-room and dining-room baseboards. Continue reading A Restorative Vacation
Holy geez, we’ve been gone a long time!
We toured the world, adopted three children from every village we passed through, got four doctorates each, started a vineyard, retired as millionaires, and completely mastered DDR. That’s why we haven’t updated in almost a year. Continue reading Holy geez, we’ve been gone a long time!
“It’s a celebration, brick-es!”
You can pretty much pay anyone to do anything. We decided to pay AAA-1 Masonry a whole bunch of it to disassemble our front steps and clean the mortar off the old bricks so they could reuse them and rebuild the steps! What a hoot!
quick and dirty
just in time for our first anniversary in the house: check out our new list of everything we’ve done to our house since the closing on june 20, 2005. Continue reading quick and dirty
the comeback king
ferget flavor flav. we’ve got the real comeback king right here in our living room. Continue reading the comeback king