The weather has been our enemy since November, when we first moved in. We’ve known nothing but snow and cold in this house. Winter left us with astronomical utility bills, blankets on our windows, and an ever-growing pile of exterior repair work to be done. This weekend it was almost (gasp) spring-like. I even heard […]

How great is my fiance? I came home from work yesterday to find the walls of our back porch GONE! When he gets into a project, he’s a maniac. He’s a neat maniac, though – he got all the debris loaded onto a trailer, and salvaged all of the clapboard siding, decorative elements, and useful […]

The kitchen updates have been an ongoing, slow-moving process. Christmas preparations pretty much stalled our progress, but now that things have died down I have a renewed energy for fixes. So, our cupboard doors are FINALLY back on the hinges. They’ve been leaning up along the walls for about a month now, and staring at […]

Right now, the kitchen isn’t exactly working for us. It’s small, but I can handle that. The thing that’s killing me is our total lack of cupboard space. Here’s what we’ve got: (click for larger) That’s it – every pot, pan and canned good we own is shoved into one of those cupboards. Miraculously, it […]

While painting the kitchen, I noticed a cold draft coming from the space where the back wall meets the floor. Since drafts are our enemy, I got down on my hands and knees to check it out. What I found was a sizeable gap between the floor and the bottom of the wall; I could […]

Mindy began to paint the kitchen tonight to freshen up the walls and attempt to disguise the door that has been poorly sheetrocked over. As Mindy and I began to move the fridge away from the wall she suddenly paused and put her hands over her mouth saying, “Honey… I found a dead mouse and […]