When we were cleaning up for our holiday BBQ, Jeff made a snarky comment about our junk pile of wood on the side of the house. He was right,...

We got a new toy! We're going to have to get rid of more stuff from the garage to make room for this! Last Friday we went and bought the...

 And we finished another project! We couldn't make the top shelf tall enough for gallons because we needed to clear a pipe sticking out ...

I've been continuing to clean up the pile of salvaged wood in our driveway. We had a few pieces of weathered and rather ratty pieces of ...

As part of our garage reorganization, we decided to move the leftover cans of paint into the basement. The basement has more consistent temp...

 And it is done! We're really happy with the finished project. We actually paid $10 for the Roll-Away Lumber Cart plan from the Woods...

 We are so happy to have breathable air again. SO HAPPY. This afternoon we were able to venture outside and work in the garage again. We mad...

I have spent at least 20 hours the last few days sifting boxes and piles. If I see a box that clearly has stuff in it and isn't labeled,...

Now that the end of summer is rapidly approaching, I finally kickstarted my garage organization effort . As a reminder, this is the plan for...

And we finished another salvage wood project! A firewood rack for the side of the house. This project used up the last of the weathered 2...

We finished another project! I've been having a lot of fun building stuff with our giant pile of salvaged lumber. This time a small ben...

I'm super excited about what we built from salvaged wood! Maybe you guys remember from the photos of the yard the mess of wood along the...

After playing with tile some, we thought it would be fun to look into making some tiles from scratch. It would be nice to do something for t...

In my search for living room upholstery fabric, I have become a fan of Palazzo Fabrics and Robert Allen Design. They both have a fantastic u...

I realized it has been more than 6 months since I did a project wishlist and I thought it would be nice to look at what we've done since...

It's been a while since I had the confidence to publish a project list. The last was in April 2014  and I've copied the list below. ...

I was amused to run across my list detailing my ambitious plans for 2013 . Boy, did we ever fail. We'd spent too many years fixated on t...

We've spent some time this week reevaluating our project plans for the year. Looking back at last Fall's list , we seem to have depa...

Jeff and I have been working on paint stripping, staining and painting fairly steadily since the summer before last. I'm tired of the pr...

The last three weeks, I've been in one of the longest periods of non-motivation that I've had in quite a while. I just got tired of ...