We’ve been avoiding some of our bigger projects lately. Feeling guilty? Me? Always. Anyway… Our next BIG project is the master bathroom. It’s big in a few ways; big money, big changes, big investment of time and energy. So while we should be planning for it, we’re avoiding it instead. The only real step we’ve […]

Came across this and had to share…. because you can never have enough tools, and some people have exorbitant amounts of spare change sitting around just waiting to be spent. I give you the $1,200 “Giant Knife, Version 1.0” (no kidding, that is apparently it’s name): It has 85 tools, including such useful features as […]

One of our most popular posts is a plea for help I wrote during a humid week two summers ago, when our hardwood floors started seeping cat urine. You can read the full post here. It seems that many, many people have similar problems in their own homes and are googling awfully hard to find […]

A while back, I posed our pre-winter to-do list. And because we had a very quiet weekend with no real house-related accomplishments to speak of other than a few washed windows, I thought I’d make myself feel better by going through our list and checking things off. Our must-do before freezing temps list: Finish the […]

Just thought you guys would be interested in the latest project that This Old House is undertaking. It’s a cute, fairly average looking old house in their fave city, Boston. Personally, though the Cambridge House and DC House were cool, I’m excited because this one ought to be a little more relative to what we’re […]

I’m a researcher at heart; I went to nearly every store in the area comparing rug prices and selection. I hit Home Depot, Target, Kohls, Macy’s, JCPenney, Marshalls, TJ Maxx, and a host of online shops including buyrugsdirect.com, homedecorators.com, and ebay. I put about 20 rugs on my “watch list” for ebay so that I […]

Pfft. Let me begin by saying that this whole blown-in insulation project goes down in Fixer-Upper history as one of our least favorite. Ever. Which is saying a lot. It wasn’t one thing, but a combination of lots of little annoying things that made it suck so bad. On Saturday morning Teague drove out to […]

Last week, I found a sweet surprise in my mailbox – 3 prints from talented photographer (and former neighbor) Andrew Burdick. I’ve known Drew nearly all my life; we grew up about a block from each other. But since embarking on our grown-up lives, I hadn’t heard much about his travels and adventures. When I […]

On Thursday, I attended my very first stained glass class. I’m a person who craves knowledge; I eat up books, magazines, and tv shows that teach me new things. It’s something of an obsession, this needing to know. It stems from my type-a competitive personality; deep down, it bugs me if someone can do something […]

We didn’t make any progress last night – too tired, too bored with drywall – but I thought I’d post some photos of last weekend’s wallapalooza. That is the ceiling “before” – you can see the insulation peeking through, and the rough shape of the lathe. This is why we decided to frame up a […]