Planting the Jay Tree
The blog has been quiet as work has slowed down, but there’s one small finished project I haven’t chronicled yet, mostly because …
Pantry version 2.5
Our new (2010) kitchen pantry, while a drastic improvement over what we had before we remodeled the kitchen, still left something to …
When it’s all over it just begins again: the master bedroom
We always joke that each room renovation in the last 22 months has been done a little better than the last. Which …
Week of Steve has the opposite problem now
I just said we’d had time to write but no time to do any projects in the last few weeks with the …
In which I learned that I was actually building a boudoir
At some point during the long slog through this upstairs sleeping porch project, maybe while picking out light fixtures for the ceiling, …
And we’re back! Plus one
It’s been a few weeks but we’re back online and ready to unveil a few finished projects and tell a few house …
At long last, insulating the porch ceiling
About ten months ago, I was trying to figure out the best way to insulate the ceiling of our upstairs sleeping porch. …
Putting the final touches on the kitchen window project
It’s so gratifying to finally put the last finishing touch on a project. Perhaps that’s because it happens so infrequently around here …
Get your own Petworth map prints by Torie
In our last post, I showed off the great Petworth map print that our friends Lilly and Colin bought for our house …
A year later, turning an old window into something new (Part 2)
This is the second post of a series. Catch up on the first post here. Yesterday I continued telling the story of …