We’re only a few days away from the new year, so it’s natural to reflect on our successes and failures. Of which we’ve all had many… personal, professional, and of course house-related. So, in the spirit of new-years-listmaking, I give you our top-tens! Fixer-Upper’s WORST surprises of 2005 10. Each time you fix a radiator, […]

With the holiday madness, home improvement progress has come to a screeching halt. And I’m ok with that. There’s plenty we accomplished and didn’t blog about, especially during the rush to get Cody’s apartment ready. For starters, we were facing a bit of a dilemna with the stairwell. Cody’s side-entry door opened up into the […]

Yesterday we moved in Fixer-Upper’s newest tenant, my younger brother Cody. For those of you who knew us back in the day, rest assured there will be no over-the-head wedgie attacks, spit torture, or flying furniture. We’re WAY more grown up than that now. At least we pretend to be. Like most siblings, my brother […]

and look what he fit through the chimney: For Christmas this year, Teague and I asked my parents & grandparents to help solve our dirty dish dilemnas, and they definitely delivered. I can’t tell you how excited I am. I hate, hate, hate coming home to a sink full of dirty dishes every night. Even […]

in which we dress the dogs in costumes and humiliate them so thoroughly, they stop peeing in the house for two whole days. Bruiser is NOT A FAN of costumes, as you can tell… Nero is just upset because velvet makes him look fat.

I know, you’re all just DYING to see the plethora of quick fixes we’ve been pushing through before Cody moves in upstairs (in less than a week!). I apologize for taking so long to post these, but we’ve been crazy busy these last few weeks. You know, holidays and all. But now, for your viewing […]

So it seems that many of us have dreamt about finding and exploring new closets, rooms, or entire sections of our house. I myself have a reoccuring dream in which I find about 3 new rooms I was previously unaware of. In the dream I am always very excited about my find, and amazed that […]

I had a great dream last night. In it, I found a closet in our house that we had somehow forgotten about. I was happier than a kid at Christmas! I think it’s pretty funny that I’m so house obsessed, I fantasize about more closet space instead of, say, Jake Gyllenhaal….