Using Hot Water To Strip Wallpaper
Send out the ravens! (yes, that’s a Game of Thrones reference). Wallpaper stripping has commenced. I was actually really excited to tackle …
Home Improvement Ideas and Projects
A bunch of in depth tutorials and step by step instructions for completing home improvement projects, keeping up with home maintenance, transforming a fixer-upper, and doing things like unclogging a drain or building a deck.
Ripping Up A Rug & Removing The Rug Pad & Tack Strips
We named the rug in the sunroom Stinky. We were feeling literal, and it was damp in the corners from moisture seeping into the sunroom from…
How To Install New Interior Doorknobs
Alternate post title: Come And Knob On Our Door. Don’t you love a good forced pun on a Wednesday morning? Ever since we shared a bunch of d…
Replacing An Old Furnace & Getting A New Roof
When we bought our house, there were two big issues we knew that we needed to deal with right away: the ancient furnace for the first floor…
How To Remove An Old Sliding Shower Door
Don’t eat while you read this. Seriously, don’t. This is the story of removing the sliding shower doors in our bathroom. It was one of thos…
Twelve Steps For Installing Hardwood Floors
After excitedly declaring “the hardwood floors are done!” just in time to move in, we got a bunch of requests for a follow up post with det…
How To Install Oak Hardwood Floors
Get on the floor. Seriously, wood, get out of those boxes and do your thing. Oh how I wish it were that easy. Turns out laying oak flooring…
A Full Rundown Of Home Makeover Projects & Links
Packing up our current house and new-house-floor-laying continues… … but we didn’t want to scoot outta our beloved current house without on…
Adventures In Hardwood Flooring
Late last week we were finally able to start installing our hardwood floors at the new house. It’s going well (we’re getting it done with o…
How To Make A Whole House To Do List
Exciting times guys. Operation Ditch The Blue Trim is currently in progress! So while we sweat our way through un-blue-ing things on the se…
Pricing And Picking Oak Hardwood Flooring
Let’s talk about wood, shall we? As we mentioned on Tuesday, we decided to go with solid oak hardwoods for the four bedrooms and the hallwa…
How To Draw Floor Plans With Floorplanner.com
Just like our first house floor plan and our current house floor plan from yesteryear, a bunch of you have requested a new house floor plan…