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We’ve all seen them. You can probably picture one in your mind’s eye– if not your backyard. Or, on your TV: Norm has one on…
“Ouch!” It’s an exclamation I heard often within the confines of my small kitchen, where people regularly banged into an awkwardly placed door when trying…
I have a love-hate relationship with drywall–but apparent most people have a hate relationship with it as shown in my last drywall post. I hear…
Huntington Beach chimes in with a GREAT Remodeling question. HB asks: “How long does a single bathroom remodel usually take you, a single bathtub and…
Have you got a painting project going on this holiday weekend? Truth be told, we could be more passionate about painting, but there are few…
When you build something, no one is closer to it than you. Indeed, even though you’re building it for someone else, deploying your effort and…
Setting cabinets is a tempting DIY project because the installation principles are basic, but the reality—especially in the old-house world of crooked floors and uneven wall surfaces—is more complicated.
Old houses often have equally old–and by old I mean weed-choked–lawns. If you live in the Northern tier of the country, it’s a pretty good…
The bare bones of building haven’t ever changed all that much. Sure, we have fancy new materials to build with, and seriously cool equipment that…
In room-by-room remodels like the one we have going now there are some things I want to remain in the room in question (dust, debris)…
Re-roofing a house can be an overwhelming prospect. That said, there’s a lot of instant gratification in roofing, and if done on a beautiful day,…
