After a fairly relaxing weekend with our wonderful moms and my beautiful wife, I was able to spend some free time on our dining room paneling project late Sunday afternoon. So far we’ve removed the old chair rail molding, added an outlet and repaired the wall damage from the wiring. Now we’re finally ready to […]
For a while there, I didn’t think I’d ever be writing this post. Thankfully, this day has arrived and our kitchen cabinet pullout drawers have been successfully installed. If you recall, I built these drawers over a series of five posts (here, here, here, here aaaaannd here). In actuality, I think I spent maybe five […]
Another weekend come and gone. They always go too quick! Luckily, we managed to finish one project and make some progress with another. We finally finished our cabinet drawer additions!! Been a long time coming! We’ll show you the details later this week. In the meantime, in today’s post we’re showing you how to fix […]
I enjoy doing electrical work. It’s usually fairly straight forward and doesn’t involve me getting very dirty. Usually. Sometimes I have to cut holes in the wall, like in our dining room. Since we decided to add some raised panel wainscoting, we’re adding a new outlet behind this buffet. The lamps we have on there […]
My reading interest tends to vary with my energy level. Some days I want to dive into a deep, multi-page scientific journal entry about the quest to find the Higgs Boson or read the entire Wikipedia page on early church history. Finishing large articles can be rewarding. Leaves you feeling like you read a novel. […]
Yep, we’re finally getting around to the dining room wainscoting project and we’re starting with a post on how to remove trim. There is quite a lot to do with this one, but we’re happy to finally get to it. We’ve got a full weekend of home projects ahead of us for a change and […]
I love books. Not just any books, mind you. I love How To books. There is something empowering about a How To book that I find very satisfying. Consequently, I rarely part with any of the DIY books I’ve collected over the years. They’re usually filled with so much info that even though I may […]
We don’t have green thumbs. Our lawn probably is never going to be the nicest on the block. But, that doesn’t mean we can’t try right? It’s April and while we should probably be thinking about some outdoor projects soon, we’re still going to be working on some indoor stuff for a while. Late last […]
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As promised in yesterday’s countertop post, here’s the rest of the before and after photos from our shore house renovation. Keep in mind that most of the before photos are kinda crappy in quality because we weren’t really thinking we’d be putting them on the web one day. I’ll start where I left off yesterday… […]
