I have three large tables in my sewing room. Here are some old photos. It's beautiful furniture, but it takes up most of a room. After...

Last spring, I bought a big pile of tongue & groove for the re-roofing project. It ended up there was quite a lot left, but by the time ...

The inexpensive maple table worked great for Jeff's Uplift Desk. It took us an hour or so this afternoon to get it assembled. I've...

In January we ordered Jeff an Uplift Desk frame , but the solid wood tops were crazy expensive; like $550-1000 expensive. I couldn't bri...

I spent a couple days playing in SketchUp again. The plan isn't as complete as I would like because my version is so old I can't dow...

Our forecast calls for nice cool weather for several days so it seems like a good time to finally get this railing installed. We made good p...

I don't remember what kind of wood CDR used for the back stairs—it was something tropical—but it looked really nice when they finished t...

For the past couple of weeks, I've been slowly plugging away at painting the railing for the back stairs. We didn't have enough sawh...

So far this year I've been spending a lot of time sifting and getting rid of stuff, the garage is no exception. We had this old workbenc...

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,...

With no range in the kitchen, Jeff was motivated to pull our old camp cooker out of the shed. It was a lovely day to do some outdoor cooking...

I finally got my act together this week and continued work on my closet. I varnished the top shelf and did two coats of shellac on all the r...

We made good progress on our closet the past few days. We've installed the fixed shelving on the right side and face frame on the cabine...

I put the last coat of stain on the plywood pieces this morning.  Then, this afternoon, Jeff and I spent a couple hours finalizing the right...

The boxes are built and installed. The douglas fir plywood is cut and ready for staining. I know how I get to spend the weekend.

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...

Jeff from Hand Made Home finished our front porch. It looks amazing. It took three coats to get a nice even finish. This was the before. ...

I've planed down the cedar and our installer did a temporary install on these boards so we could get the spacing right. There will be ad...

Jeff finally had time to work on our shed step project. These were built with pressure-treated plywood and 2x4s leftover from building our s...