I hadn’t yet posted a full set of before pics, so here goes. Ready yourself for thoughts/emotions somewhere within the underwhelmed-to-horrified spectrum. Nighttime viewing is not recommended. If it gets too intense, please, just look away and think of puppies. I want you to have a happy New Year.
Let’s start with the heart of the [...]

Lately I’ve been spending both airport and sky time devouring whatever design mags catch my eye at the terminal. The Dec/Jan issue of House Beautiful has a photo of what I’ve had in mind for framing out all of the doors and windows.
(photo credit: housebeautiful.com)
Our friends have a stack of old railroad ties that they’ve [...]

It’s definitely a morale buster for me when we’ve got to spend days working on quick fixes rather than lasting solutions. Good thing I’m not in politics.
Another morale buster is that we were supposed to be in Vegas this weekend celebrating Steve’s birthday, but I got contagious eye infection. I’ll be kind and not post [...]

… in a house this size.
We’ve got a 6 foot wide x 4 foot deep area of mini hallway – look:

I’m standing in the bathroom doorway looking out toward the dining room. To the left is the Master Bedroom and to the right is the future Kids’ Room.
We plan to close up the bedroom [...]

Ok. So there’s no air conditioning – and that’s a good thing. In our last apartment we paid around $250-$300 per month to run the thing, and that was just one wall unit and one window unit. Yuck.
What to do? A two-stage evaporative cooler, that’s what!
From toolbase.org:
Getting out of a pool and standing in [...]

The first project that we were going to tackle was a hydronic radiant heating system. This entails pulling up the wood floor (which is in bad shape due to numerous strange patch jobs for various heating systems over the years), repairing the subfloor, having the radiant heat installed, and pouring an inch to inch-and-a-half self-leveling [...]