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I was thinking yesterday as I was installing the sod in the backyard about all the hours and sweat and some blood (and maybe just a few tears) that it took to get to this point. My goodness, we’ve come a long way from where we started in the backyard over two full years ago. [...]

And saying that “my hands are a little sore” today is like saying “our backyard is full of rocks” I rented a tiller late Friday night and cranked ‘er up in the backyard early Saturday morning. I think I may have used one years ago, but I had no memory of the fact that it’s [...]

Yesterday, the new living room entertainment center cabinet was half-finished. Before I wrap up the rest of the story and show off the finished product, I should probably step back and explain just a little bit about how I put it all together for those of you that care about such things. I used nicer sanded [...]

So the plan all along was to “practice” building a bunch of built-in furniture for the house in various places, and then use all that I’d learned and what were sure to be burgeoning master cabinet making skills (ha!) to complete the coup de grace: a built-in entertainment center in the den; the most viewed, [...]

Like I said before, one day I’m going to run out of spaces to fill and radiators to cover, and that’s going to be a sad day for me. Because I am really enjoying the built-in bonanza currently underway in the old rowhouse. Though, based on the amount of time and effort these last two [...]

One day, I’m going to run out of nooks and radiators and corners to fill or cover with new pieces of built-in furniture, and that, my friends, is going to be a sad day. Because I am on a roll in the house right now creating new built-in furniture, and honestly, I’ve enjoyed this more than [...]

“Furniture” is probably too strong of a word for what I spent the last week building: a custom radiator box combined with bookshelves for the guest room. This is the first of two posts; read part two here. This isn’t anything like a fancy chair or a dresser or a chest or any other kind [...]

While going through the desk this weekend I was siftng through a bunch of house related papers and I found the original mls printout for our house listing from 2010. In the description of the house there was this hilarious little nugget. But before you read it, just go and read any three random blog [...]

The blog has been quiet as work has slowed down, but there’s one small finished project I haven’t chronicled yet, mostly because the story is a difficult one to tell and the words hard to find: the special new tree we planted in our treebox that will grow ever upward and outward in front of [...]

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 [...]