This is a laundry list of every blog post I’ve published. For a more user-friendly overview of our house and posts grouped by room, check out Bungalow Tour.
- Sunroom Renovation Before and After
- DIY Moulding and Painting in the Sunroom
- Sunroom Renovation – Floor Installation and Painting
- Sunroom Renovation – Week 3
- Sunroom Renovation – Week 2
- Sunroom Renovation – Week 1
- Let’s Get Into Our Sunroom Renovation
- ORC Week 6: Cursing the Queen and Hailing the Halo
- ORC Week 4: Our Bungalow’s Front Yard Landscaping
- Our Clean, Organized, and Practical Unfinished Basement
- Unfinishing a Finished Basement
- ORC Week 3: Basement Flood
- ORC Week 2: New Bungalow Roof
- One Room Challenge Week 1: Our Bungalow’s Exterior
- Sunroom Renovation Plans
- Bungalow Window Decision Making
- My Favorite Purchases of 2019
- Staircase Refinishing: That’s What the Money is For
- House Goals for 2019 and Beyond
- Moulding and Living Room Progress
- Bungalow Entryway with DIY Hook Rail
- ORC Week 6: Mudroom Before and After
- ORC Week 5: Shelving, Litter Box, and Light Fixture
- ORC Week 4: Door Trim, Window Shade, and Plant Shelf
- ORC Week 3: Doorway Broom Closet
- ORC Week 2: Drywall Finishing and So Much Painting
- One Room Challenge Week 1: Mudroom Makeover
- Kitchen Makeover Details Roundup 2 of 2
- Kitchen Makeover Details Roundup 1 of 2
- Kitchen and Dining Room Before and After
- Kitchen Progress: New Door, Trim, and Threshold Tile
- Kitchen Progress: Butcher Block Shelf
- Kitchen Progress: Faucet, Hardware, and Window Trim
- How I Filed TV Show Filming Rental Income with TurboTax
- Kitchen Decision Making
- 2018 House Goals
- Customizing an IKEA SILVERAN Bathroom Vanity
- Half-Bathroom Before and After
- Half-Bathroom Renovation: Day 4 and Beyond
- Half-Bathroom Renovation: Days 1 through 3
- Half-Bathroom Renovation is Underway!
- Bathroom Decision Making
- Reader Survey – I’d Love Your Feedback
- Adding Moulding to Inside Out Bi-Fold Doors
- Entryway Progress: New Chandelier and Rug
- 2017 House Goals
- Front Yard Painting and Landscaping
- Backyard Patio, Painting, and Landscaping
- Chainlink to Cedar Fence Upgrade
- 2016: The Year of the Exterior
- Cheap Bungalow-Friendly Light Fixture
- Bedroom Makeover: Before and After
- Two-Person Desk and Gallery Wall
- Let’s All Watch Easy on Netflix
- How I Installed an IKEA Bathroom Vanity
- Bathroom Makeover: Finished!
- Basement Laundry Room Before and After
- Chicagoans: Sign Up for a Water Meter!
- Living Room and Sunroom: Progress and Plans
- Bathroom and Stairs: Progress and Plans
- Kitchen Progress and Plans
- Bathroom Closet Before & After
- Bathroom Makeover Plan
- My Favorite Purchases of 2015
- Front Porch Upgrades
- New House Tour: Main Floor
- New House Tour: Upstairs
- House Offer Number 5
- House Offer Number 4
- House Offer Number 3
- House Offer Number 2
- House Offer Number 1
- Two Unexpected House Hunt Game Changers
- Chicago House Hunting: The One I Loved the Most
- Chicago House Hunting: The One that Got Away
- House Hunting: How We Got Started
- What’s the Deal with Project Palermo?
- Drunk in Love with Beyonce: 5 Drinking Game Rules
- Bottles in Boots, Y’all
- Cape Horn Illustration Giveaway Winner
- Plants in the Bathroom
- Cape Horn Illustration Giveaway
- Project Palermo on Apartment Therapy
- Rental Bathroom Makeover: Before, During, After
- Yard Sale Finds and DIY Cocktails
- Bathroom Makeover Days 3 and 4
- Bathroom Makeover Day 2
- Somewhat Real-time Bathroom Makeover
- All the Ways to Follow Project Palermo
- Upholstered Nailhead Trim Headboard
- Under Construction
- Plant Baskets & Jewelry Storage
- Cheap DIY Art and Free Image Sources
- Bedroom Makeover
- Apartment Doorbell Label Holder Things
- Wheels
- Rug Shopping, Forever
- Building a Picture Ledge for a Neon Sign
- Colors & Patterns in Merida, Mexico
- Zero Dollar Laundry Room Makeover
- Basement Storage Organization
- Good Riddance, February; Hello, Columbia!
- A Project Room of One’s Own
- Preach!: Meat and Tights
- Lighted Leaning Bookcases
- Haulin’ Brass
- Preach!: Sheets and Comics
- The Ultimate Project Room
- DIY Project Round-Up
- The Framer’s Intent: DIY Scarf Display
- Dust Yourself Off and Try Again
- Twin Catloafs
- Portrait of a Doomed Art Project
- Hardwired HEMMA: DIY Closet Light
- Happy Birthday, AP!
- Canopy Fail, Cinema Success
- DIY Metal Cutting Options
- Gold Leaf Paint Options
- Step by Step IKEA VITTSJO Nesting Table Hack
- Deadly Pretty Things
- When in Doubt, Paint a Door
- Swedes & Sputnik
- Cuddletown
- Cat Concessions: Plants and Upholstery
- Pipe + Netting Garden Trellis
- Operation Obscurement: DIY Window Film
- Lettuce Week: Thursday
- Lettuce Week: Wednesday
- Lettuce Week: Tuesday
- Lettuce Week: Monday
- Catio Cleanup
- Saturday Night Live
- Internet Shopping FAIL
- California via Des Moines Dreaming
- Garden Netting & Wildlife Sighting
- Open Window
- This is How My Garden Fails
- Bunnicula
- Unlawful Consumption
- Tools for (Over) Planning Raised Garden Beds
- Internet Browsing
- Raised Garden Beds: Two Tons of Soil, One Bucket
- Raised Garden Beds: In Progress
- New Toy
- Blog Referrers: DesignSponge vs. WordPress
- Living in a Modern Way
- Wall-Mounted Bottle Opener v. 2
- Heavy Metal
- A Harmless Dresser-to-TV Stand Conversion
- Wall-Mounted Bottle Opener
- Preach!: The ReBuilding Exchange
- Happy New Year!
- Gallery Wall: In Praise of Chopsticks & 3M
- I Built a House!
- Labor Day Weekend Odds & Ends
- Shagadelic
- Project!: Living Room and Dining Room
- Fancy Cats
- Kitchen Ceiling Fan: Victorious / Victory-ish
- Welcome, new readers!
- Kitchen Progress: Part 2 of 2
- Kitchen Progress: Part 1 of 2
- It’s Electric
- Let’s Hear It for the Boy
- Bathroom: That’ll Do
- CATHOLE: Litter Box Closet Cat Door
- Git-R-Done
- Video Games
- Paint it Black
- Speaking of cats . . .
- Tracks
- I’ve Made a Huge Mistake
- CATHOLE
- Maplewood Planning: Bathroom
- Recliners: Why They Gotta Be So Ugly?
- Maplewood Planning: Guest Room
- Bloom and Grow Forever
- Spring
- Meatload #2
- Maplewood Floor Plan
- Spring Cleaning
- Errands
- Shag Rug
- Weekend To-Do
- Maplewood Apartment Photos
- Maplewood Upstairs/Downstairs
- New and Improved
- Chilling out, maxing, relaxing all cool
- Project
- Bedroom Light Fixture
- Won’t you be my table?
- Grandma Droz
- Catio Portal Project
- Cat Attack
- Dining Room
- Hardware
- Budget Marti vs. Amazon
- oh man oh man oh man
- Preach!: Howard Restor-A-Finish
- Crafty Beaver
- Hardware Bidness
- Ping-pong No-go
- Eastwood Floor Plan
- Our New Place
- Blogz