How-to
If you’ve never seen a burst water pipe — or the damage one causes — consider yourself lucky. According to Sate Farm Insurance, about 250,000…
Here at the MyFixitUpLife HQ we do a lof of painting both inside and outside the house. And doing a good job painting is as…
Every so often, the forces of the universe conspire — and not in a nice way — to block people from success. If you’re a remodeler,…
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…
