Wrapping up the back fence with a new homemade address plate
With the construction of the fence in the rearview, I had the idea to put our address number on the rear of …
Discovered whole going through old house documents
While going through the desk this weekend I was siftng through a bunch of house related papers and I found the original …
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 …
Two steps down in the back
In the two months since I finished the backyard retaining wall, getting down to the alley and the trash/recycling cans has required …
Burning Thanksgiving calories by building a new garden bed
And we’re back with a bang! Yes, we’ve been away since October, but our sweet baby girl (oh, and life in general) …
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 …
A surprising discovery for the backyard raised beds
We’ve been planning on raised beds all along in the backyard running along almost the entire length of the northern fence. This …
So the delivery guys will actually know what the number is on our house
A staple of DC rowhomes (as well as most rowhomes from the same period elsewhere) is the tradition of hand-painted house numbers …
Finishing up the backyard retaining wall
After one week, the backyard retaining wall is done. Even as I wrote that just now, I was so dubious that it …
Planning out the rest of the backyard
While the retaining wall is almost finished, we’ve been going back and forth on the master plan for the rest of the …