As you know, my other business is dyeing yarn , and for years I had a job weaving saddle pads on a giant loom.  Seriously, the loom was th...

Going.... Lest you thought we had stopped all work on the house, I am here to reassure you that not a single picture frame in this house...

Eric knocked the old front wall of the house down.   The old living room addition on the front of the house was on the left. [Original h...

Once we got the upstairs floors done and the windows and doors trimmed out we took a bit of a break from major construction.   Our idea of...

So, there's been an extended period of radio silence here.  Sorry about that.   We've been busy doing the upstairs floors. The g...

Our January project is finally done and it was worth the considerable amount of time it took.   Eric built these shelves on the wall aroun...

A year ago I got some old doors from a local salvage place. I was thrilled.  $25 each.   What a deal. Not. More than $200 in paint str...

The bedroom floors are done!   Before I forget, these are the products we used for staining, sealing and finishing.   I'm ve...

I know it's been forever since I've given you an update on the house, but the truth is drywall is boring. Drywall mudding is bor...

We brought some of our new windows home during the holidays.   We went with a stock size so we could afford to get bigger windows.   Thes...

The fascia board on your house is the board that covers the rafter ends and is the board to which your gutters are connected.   It's...

Finally.   After the rain.  The roof. Eric went with rafters instead of trusses because we didn't have any way to get prebuilt tru...

So, for some days after we started cutting out the old roof and starting putting up the second story, our house was not under roof.   It w...

I told you on Thanksgiving that it was only with the help of our friends and neighbors that we were able to stand the walls and roof.  Ove...

At last we got all of the new 2nd floor floor joists in and the old roof cut out. Next we did the decking, which is the subfloor for t...