When you and your husband are trying to hold a piece of drywall up over your heads while standing on two shaky ladders, one of you perhaps wearing flip-flops, and you can’t get it to fit exactly right, it’ll start to feel pretty damn heavy. And when the “dead man” wooden support falls, and the […]

We’ve been in our house nearly a year, so I guess it’s about time we have a “housewarming”, eh? We didn’t want to scare our closest friends and family from ever visiting, so we waited until the cat pee smell died down and the walls were hole-free (downstairs at least). Now that we’re more comfortable […]

Aaron from House in Progress posted a very good read on how being a fixer-upper drastically changes your lifestyle. I can truly relate to his post. When Teague and I started looking for houses, we knew a few things. We wanted something old in a quiet neighborhood, and something that needed work. We were ready […]

As a child, I loved to color. Show me a nice new box of sharpened crayolas (the 72 pack, naturrally) and I still get excited. But I’m all grown up, and grown-ups don’t color, right? Not necessarily. Dover’s Victorian House coloring books feature the coolest drawings, AND they look hard enough to keep me quiet […]

Another work weekend has come and gone; we worked hard and it paid off – the chimney is ready for painting, the kitchen ceiling is framed in, the french doors are spar varnished, and the inner walls are fully insulated. But I bet you guys are about as sick of the boring home improvement stories […]