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We have a dungeon. Well, not really a dungeon, but it looks dungeon-like and that must count for something. It is actually the brick cavity underneath the front external stairs. I know - not exactly à la Fritzl, sorry to disappoint. Jason dubbed [Read More]

With the completion of a major overhaul to the house, the neglected garage has just served as a hideous reminder of what used to be.  After spending May through August working on the bungalow’s exterior, I finally turned my attention to the g [Read More]

div style="text-align: center;"Now that we are able to stay tolerably warm Luke and I are much more motivated to work on the garage. For the past two days we have been working on getting our windows installed. Neither of our windows are new. We pulle [Read More]

I was looking for photographs of other Tudor Revival houses on Flickr when I came across a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/reallyboring/3109208633/"this photograph/a of Frank Lloyd Wright's a href="http://peterbeers.net/interests/flw_rt/Illinois/N [Read More]

div style="text-align: center;"We moved a little closer to having a real garage today. After returning from church, we started installing the overhead garage door. Luke has done a few of these before so his experience saved us a lot of time. We we [Read More]

We really did have grand plans for the this weekends, but the weather just isn't cooperating. It's been snowing since yesterday morning so we have to settle for projects that can be done inside. That being said, we did have to complete digging our t [Read More]

div style="text-align: center;"Work on the garage has not gone exactly as planned. After finally getting our building permit last month I had hoped that progress would leap forward. However we have too many other things going on; trips to Montana, l [Read More]

Despite the cool weather we have been experiencing this week, progress on the garage is coming along nicely. This is my first week back to work so most of our progress on the garage has to take place in the evening. On Monday we framed in the last [Read More]

div style="text-align: center;"It's been a month since we spent a whole day working on the garage. Sure we've put in a few hours here and there, but that has not made much of a dent in the amount of work yet to be completed. We are really going to [Read More]

div style="text-align: center;"Sorry folks, but I really don't have much to show. The truth is, we have not been doing much remodeling. Between traveling and being sick we have not been motivated to get outside and work. But last weekend our shingles [Read More]

Fortunately our basement remained dry throughout the heavy rainfall in the Chicago area last weekend. We noticed our neighbor drying out a few things from her basement, but our street is in a relatively high part of town, so I think most people had o [Read More]

I hope everyone had a productive weekend, I know I did. So, you are probably wondering what "No More Moo-Cows" in my title means-right?br /br /br /Well, as some of you may remember, my Master Bedroom had an oh-so-lovely farm border along the top of t [Read More]

The OP has an Annual Neighborhood Walk Survey to insure that our homes don't deteriorate. The impetus for this likely came in the 70's when there was an overall fear that Chicago would swallow up all of it's neighboring communities and that we'd end [Read More]

I put up my cheap and easy garage storage shelf a few weeks ago, with plans to finish the shelf off with a bit of timber along the front and side of the shelf. Here is a photo of the finished project … As you can see, I added the timber trim a [Read More]

I primed the garage today as I heard we may get rain on Sunday. Although it is just primed it looks a heckuva lot better than it did with nothing. I realize it's just a stop-gap measure until we knock the sucker down next summer and rebuild but it's [Read More]

A few weekends ago I decided that we needed to add some extra storage in our garage. There are some fancy and expensive options available at Bunnings or places like Howards Storage World for storage and shelving solutions for the garage. Since I was [Read More]

Gardeners are advised to treat tulips as annuals. Despite their association with the soggy Netherlands, tulips are native to the dry, mountainous regions of central Asia. They need cold winters, wet springs, and dry summers to perform well year aft [Read More]

When writing about our previous garage I forgot to add a picture of it. Here it is:The retaining wall on the right hand side continues another 8 feet inside the garage making for the tight right hand turn into the rest of the room. [Read More]

Standing in the trenches of renovation is a nice metaphor for all of the hard work that goes into a home renovation, but we have found ourselves literally standing in the trenches of renovation. Keep reading to pick up tips on how to trench and how [Read More]

We ran a garage sale here in Townsville a few weeks ago and the response that we had to it wasn’t as good as what we were hoping for. It was better than our first garage sale at our previous help, but still not very good. Tamara’s parent& [Read More]