How To Build A Paver Patio
Hallelujah, the patio is done! I’ve caught my breath a little bit and regained feeling in most of my muscles, so I’m back to tell you the e…
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.
How To Lay A Paver Patio: Gravel, Sand, And Stones
The last four days have been nutzo in Patio Land for us (not to be confused with Temptation Island- remember that show?). The good news is …
How To Make Your Home Feel Like Home
We interrupt this regularly scheduled broadcast for a quick patio progress report: the wallet-draining patio supplies (mentioned here) have…
How To Fix A Broken Pendant Light
The other day I flipped on the lights in our kitchen and noticed one of the two pendants over the table was out. No biggie, right? The prev…
How To Prep and Level A Paver Patio
Digging is right up there with the Kardashians for me. As in, I’m getting tired of it (What? I’m a guy – we don’t like those shows). I knew…
When Home Projects Go Wrong
I learned in grade school that trying to be perfect would probably result in a caffeine-pill-fueled freakout a la Jesse Spano (yes, many of…
12 Design Mistakes We (Hopefully) Won’t Make Again
Q: I have an idea for a blog post. “Design mistakes we won’t make again.” As I look through pictures of all the beautiful work you’ve done,…
Hiding Damaged Tile With Trim
Sometimes I go crazy and I demo stuff without really thinking too hard about what I’ll do after the demo dust clears. See, for some reason …
Covering Drywall Cracks With A Ceiling Medallion
Whitney Houston once famously said “crack is whack.” I don’t think she had the ceiling of the kid’s room in mind when she said it, but hope…
How To Use Painter’s Tape To Catch Drill Dust
In the midst of hanging our bedroom curtains last week, I snapped some pics of a little trick I use to control the mess of drilling holes i…
Fire Safety Tips
We recently received this email from a reader and have been thinking about it pretty much ever since. So we thought we’d share it in the ho…
We Found A Note Hidden In Our House!
You know how we hid a secret note in our first house to hopefully be discovered in a few decades? Well, we found one in our new house! It d…