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Trim Work (almost) finished

Finally! It was really simple to do, I just needed to find the right sized rosettes for the master bedroom windows to match the rest of the house. For the last year and a half, there were two and a...

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Bathroom Ventilation

When we purchased our 1965 model ranch, we had a mold problem. There were several reasons for this, but one, which became immediately apparent was the bathroom had no ventilation. Ahhh, that nice...

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Fixing a Crooked Door

Since we finished all of the major repair work year and a half ago, our house has settled a little bit. I knew that this would happen, so it did not bother me too much. Frankly, I think we got off...

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Flooded Basement

I am fed up with this rain. I went outside this morning and shook my fist at the sky. We have had so much rain, water is now coming up, out of the floor drains in the basement. Fortunately, the sump...

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How to make an end table from a Stump

This began as a how to project, but then other things kept coming up, and the stump table never quite was finished. Since it was so nice out yesterday, I took the opportunity to move the finishing...

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Crown molding in the Kitchen

Ah, the wonderful world of the 22 and 1/2 degree angle… When we put our kitchen in, we did not put soffets over the cabinets. I don’t know, I never did like the way that looked. It also seemed like a...

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Putting a ceiling fan up in the Master Bedroom

Jay was nice enough to give me his old ceiling fan that I think he took out of his Kitchen. It sat in the basement for several months until I worked up the motivation to clean it off and put it up. Of...

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New Bunk Bed

William is now a little past two years old and getting too big for his crib.  So we decided that we would get a bunk bed for his room.  This way, if we have company, they can sleep in Eliza’s room...

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How much money did I save using my woodstove this year?

We burn about a cord of firewood in our Jotul F-100 Wood stove every year.   Our primary source of heat is the oil fired boiler in the basement,  the wood stove is a supplemental or backup source.  On...

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Basement not flooding

It is hard to take a picture of what is not there. Since June 10th, we have received 5.38 inches of rain.  That is quite a bit for a 9 day period.  Our old basement would have looked like this: flooded...

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