Hello, friends! I came back. I don't see how people* can both work on a house and blog about working on a house. * Normal full-time-job people, that is, who don't get paid to blog. I just spent $99 to renew my WordPress.com Premium account, which includes the No Ads upgrade. That keeps WordPress from placing [...]
Day 2! Full disclosure: this weekend won't end with triumphant After photos because I won't have our new shower curtain in hand until Tuesday. This is the drawback of real-time blogging. All totalled, I spent way too much time on this damn grate. I just wanted to get down to bare metal so that I [...]
Our country's independence gave me a glorious four-day weekend (thanks, Thomas Jefferson et al.!) and I'm celebrating with a bathroom makeover. My friend Kimberly suggested that I live-blog it. I won't be doing that exactly, but I do plan to post pictures each day of the previous day's progress. I'm usually a very slow blogger [...]
Seriously, when all other projects feel too daunting/expensive to tackle (I'm looking at you, Bedroom), just paint a door or two. Enormous and immediate gratification. Take this exterior back door, for example. Someone had even scratched their name into the paint. I corrected it for them. After: So satisfying! I sanded it a bit and [...]
Of all of the things I worried about prior to moving into this apartment - the window air conditioners, the absence of a washer & dryers - the thing that should have kept me awake at night is PLASTER WALLS. I had no idea what I was up against. $40 worth of hollow wall anchors [...]
Project Palermo 