How To Hide A Microwave By Building It Into A Vented Cabinet
So, remember that microwave that we got a great deal on a couple of months ago? Yeah. Well. We returned it. A few of you questioned why we …
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.
Favorite DIY Tools
Here it is, the much requested post about our favorite DIY tools for all of you folks who are asking Santa for something tool-ish this year…
White Corian Counter Review
Merry Countermas to us! They’re here. And they’re spectacular. Just as a reminder, the cave room looked like this back when we moved in las…
How To Hang Cement Backer Board For A Wall Full Of Tile
As exhilarating as demolition can be, there’s always that nagging voice in the back of your head reminding you that you’re going to have to…
How To Demo Old Backsplash Tile & Plywood
In case all of that turkey and stuffing made you forget, allow me to remind you that our kitchen was looking something this after the upper…
How To Remove Old Wood Kitchen Cabinets
Our cabinets are like Chumbawumba… they get knocked down. Well, they weren’t actually knocked down as much as they were “carefully removed”…
Filling Cabinet Gaps Around Our Stove
Some aspects of this kitchen remodel are certainly less exciting than others – especially when compared to having just opened the wall up. …
Removing Our Kitchen Sink & Our Old Granite Counters
In the words of Carla from Top Chef: hootie hoo! Our counters are ordered (more on what we chose and why we chose it here). They came in at…
How To Trim Out A Cased Opening And A Half Wall
The wall is down (more here). Drywall is up (more here). Time for trim. I actually kinda enjoy doing trim. Despite it requiring lots of foc…
DIY Drywalling Tips
As exciting as it is to have both that section of wall and the contractor gone, there’s still a lot of work ahead of us before our opening …
Knocking Out A Wall To Make A Large Cased Opening
After 330 days of living in darkness, we can fiiiinally see daylight in our kitchen. And it’s nothing short of ahhhhhmazing. This whole pro…
We’re Opening The Kitchen Wall Up!
This is it. The big wall-opening week (aka: w.o.w). So… woot! The first order of business is to share a few details that we’ve been asked a…