5 Ways To Prevent Your Pipes From Freezing Without Heat
We ran out of oil heat in the middle of a huge snowstorm. Here’s how we kept the pipes from bursting while we waited two days for an oil de…
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 Install Cabinet Hardware
The duplex kitchens are looking more and more like real kitchens, and they took an especially big leap forward this past weekend after we g…
Installing Under-Cabinet Lighting
We’ve done so few upper cabinets in our recent kitchens that we actually haven’t installed under cabinet lighting in ANY of them. But we di…
Refinishing Oak and Pine Floors
Last week the studio and I got to see the freshly refinished floors at the duplex for the first time. And despite having just gone through …
The Tile We’d Install Again – And What We Wouldn’t!
Tiling was one of the most daunting tasks on our duplex to-do list this year (four bathrooms! two mudrooms! and there are still two backspl…
New Video House Tour!
It surprised us to realize it has been nearly two years since our last video house tour. And we were even more surprised to realize how muc…
Mudroom Cabinet Storage Upgrades
We don’t have a proper mudroom in our house and our garage door, which we use as our primary entryway, just dumps us right into our kitchen…
The Duplex Has Drywall! And A Video Tour!
Last week we gave you all of the details on the outside of our duplex renovation, but today we’re turning our attention to a big developmen…
Finding Shutters For Our Historic Beach House
You guys may have seen some of our progress on the duplex’s exterior on social media, but let’s get into some of the nitty gritty (and answ…
Building Shelves And A Floating Desk For An Office Nook
I know, I know – the idea of adding a little DIY office area at a vacation home seems borderline ridiculous, but back when we were debating…
The Best 45 Tools For Home DIY
We get a lot of questions about what tools people should own and they only seem to pick up steam as we approach Father’s Day (are us dads r…
10 Smart Home Devices We Love
“Smart home technology is cool, but is it actually worth it?” That’s the question we asked ourselves for years as we cautiously watched the…