Most years Jeff and I don't take advantage of Black Friday sales but, with the move, this year was an exception. Our current dryer went ...

I know it's a pretty minor accomplishment, but to me it feels a bit like an end of an era. I've been selling the dregs of that massi...

It's been 3.5 years and we haven't done anything with this huge pile of cherry wood. We need to dig some space out of the garage s...

Jeff and I have been spending a lot of time writing lately, but I finally got some more work done on the master bath last week. I finished c...

Jeff and I finally put a couple more coats of varnish on the ceiling and I repainted the walls in hubbard squash. Eric came out and helped J...

Barrett finally came out last Friday and finished grouting the bathroom tile. I should have taken photos, but I didn't have my camera wi...

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...

Looking at this thing, it's actually surprising it held on so long because it was attached with staples!! And the door handle was just s...

Jeff and Aaron made short work of digging out the wheelbarrow path today. They got a layer of gravel down before they had to wrap up for the...

As usual, this will turn into a rant about our tile guy. So, he finally came back for two days on Monday and Tuesday after ditching our job ...

Barrett of Reiner Tile & Stone didn't show up again today. During the last 2 weeks, he worked a total of five short days. The earli...

One more section of tile installed. I guess our tile guy threw out his back so progress is inching along slowly (as usual). Yesterday, aft...

We're happy with how our tile is turning out. Even though it delayed the finish another couple of weeks, I think it was worth it to take...

I just realized we had our 6 year house purchase anniversary last week. Wow, the time has passed so quickly. When we bought the house in 201...

Jeff and I finally managed to shuffle the rugs in the living room . I love the new rug! The smaller rug was moved into the library area. ...

The first batch of fired tile is back. These definitely look handmade. LOL It is apparently easy to get a small bit of something embedded...