One of the perks of moving into a new development two years ago has definitely been the wonderful neighbors we’ve met.  Since the neighborhood is fairly small, it’s been pretty easy to meet all of them, which is a big change from when we were living in the city.  We regularly hang out with a […]

I think this is going to be the last progress post I write on the wainscoting until we’re finished.  I’ll probably do one more post on how we replaced the window sill, but that will be it.  We’re that close. Over the weekend we were finally able to prime the panels.  Instead of brushing on […]

The long march towards a completed dining room wainscoting continues.  At this point, the only thing I have left to do is finish up some caulking and do some last minute sanding.  Then it’ll be PAINT time.  Right now the plan is to spray the first two coats of primer and then we’ll brush on […]

Thinking about building a new home?  It can be one of the most rewarding experiences in your life, but it can also cause a lot of stress and aggravation.  Here are 5 tips for new home builders that we’ve learned from the build of our new home in 2010.   Before you Build 1.  Did […]

Hope everyone had a great weekend! Lisa, the baby and I went up to Northeast PA on Friday evening to visit my mom and to spend some time at the local church bazaar. We’ll be posting about that stuff later this week… CAUTION: There will be pictures of delicious ethnic food. Consider yourself warned. Saturday […]

Back to life, back to reality (Thanks Soul II Soul).  After taking off five glorious days from work, it’s back to my day job.  Oh to be retired at 32.  Maybe if this blog thing works out I can retire early, like 70 instead of 72.  I know, I know, I’m getting ahead of myself. […]

Major dining room progress this week!  It’s actually starting to look sorta close to done!  This past weekend I was able to start and mostly finish installing the MDF raised panels onto the walls.  I only have the two sections remaining under the window to wrap up and then I’ll be ready to finish up […]

You know that router table I’ve been talking about building for a while now?  Well, I built it a couple weeks ago and today I’m guest blogging about it over at One Project Closer.  Stop by, say hello and check out their great website!!

Despite the fact that our current raised panel project has been pretty time consuming, we’ve still had to make some time for the normal seasonal work.  Just this past week we did some basic outdoor sprucing up.  We’ve had to do the typical weeding of the flower beds and I reinstalled the drip irrigation controller.  […]

What a weekend! Got a lot done in the past few days. I was able to finish up my router table (more on that later this week) and finally get cracking on the getting those center panels cut and routed. We were also able to squeeze in some much needed R&R. The first thing I […]