Posts from the ‘All’ Category

After a week straight of nonstop work the dining room built-in is finished. And this time, since it’s been so long since part one and you’ve all waited patiently (all ten of you), let’s just reveal the final product here right at the start before picking up where we left off. I couldn’t have gotten [...]

I came home today to find the landscaping contractors wrapping up the first day’s work on the new paver walk, finishing up the layer of quarter stone and pea gravel. Finally! This project has been a long time coming. We were initially trying to pull this together all the way back in summer and fall [...]

Our new (2010) kitchen pantry, while a drastic improvement over what we had before we remodeled the kitchen, still left something to be desired. And that something would be “better storage.” Back when we bought the house, the pantry had an angled front wall at the back edge of the kitchen. Though it was physically [...]

The amount of work that is needed in the backyard to be able to start our herb and vegetable garden is just one more example of the never-ending chain of related to-dos around the old rowhouse. To wit: For two years, Rachel has been eagerly waiting for the day when she can start planting the [...]

Though we’ve had enough time to write lately, we just haven’t had enough time to do any projects TO write about. (I did manage to finish the basement stairway a few weeks ago, but that mostly just looks like it did when it was halfway done. I’ll post pictures of that soon this week.) But [...]

Our neighborhood in DC, like many neighborhoods across the District, turns into a something akin to a warzone around July 4th. Before and after the fireworks on the Mall — which can be easily seen all the way from Petworth depending on your vantage point — neighborhood streets are filled with smoke and you never [...]

For the hatch that leads to the roof on the sleeping porch, I was having a hard time figuring out how to best insulate and finish it out. Things are nearly ready to reveal on the upstairs sleeping porch, but the last major remaining item (other than installing the light fixtures and fan on the [...]

It’s been a few weeks but we’re back online and ready to unveil a few finished projects and tell a few house renovation stories that have been stored in the hopper for awhile. But first, the biggest story of all! Lillian Jae Davis (Lily) was born just a short time after midnight on June 12, [...]

Note: Uh, yeah, so we had our baby just a few hours after I wrote this post but before I could get to the photos on my camera to finish posting it. The handful of photos of brass locksets and plates for this post were on the camera with the first photos of our daughter [...]

And you know what, you could justifiably call it a full year and a half from start to finish on this project. Because I started stripping the handrail during Thanksgiving 2010 when our family was here after a friend loaned me his heat gun and I was curious to see how it would work and wanted [...]