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Q: Hey Carpenter Mark, we recently had new kitchen cabinets and counters installed and I’m tossing around the idea of doing the tile backsplash myself….
Question: I’m putting a new kitchen in my house and it requires some serious renovations. Anyway, I feel pretty good about the contractors doing the…
With the recent bad weather in many parts of the country, and more winter to come, you may be thinking about your roof. Is it…
While there’s not much you can do to control the cost of oil, natural gas, or propane, you can save money this winter by avoiding…
As lovers and students of old buildings know, asbestos was a common building material for everything from siding and roofing to the much vilified pipe-insulation. …
So I’m watching This Old House. It looked pretty new but I apologize for not knowing the exact episode. And I only caught it half-way…
One of the incredible things about living in an old town like ours is that walking out front door is, at once, walking into the…
As the parents of two school-age kids, we watch winter weather forecasts with more interest than we did before kids were in the picture. Hot…
Anybody who lives in an old house will surely tell you that storage is an issue. Closets–by modern standards anyway–are either small or non-existent. Hence,…
Sorry, but I have very little to good to say about no-name snow shovels. I do have a lot of nice things to say about…
It’s difficult not to be cliche when talking about HGTV’s 2011 Dream Home, because, well, winning that contest would indeed be a dream come true….
Currently active on the MyFixitUpLife reading list is the inimitable Bill Bryson’s At Home, A Short History of Private Life. To call the 150 or…
