I started a Web site about our house when we were in the process of buyig it to show photos to online friends and also so I could call up my page and daydream about my house at work.

Then as we moved in and started making changes, I found the plain ol' Web site to be an inconvenient way of expressing our progress.

With inspiration from others (House in Progress, for one!) I started a blog. I love the format. It keeps me motivated, like you said, because I don't want to have nothing to say on my blog if I don't work!

I started blogging for two reasons. First was to keep my family on the West Coast updated on our progress on the East Coast. Second, it was a way for me to keep tabs on myself. As anyone who has been down this path knows, you can sometimes lose sight of what it is you've accomplished. On occasion I go back and read what's taken place, just to make sure that I haven't, as yet, completely lost my sanity.

I started our website as an extension of our monthly print newsletter that first began in November 1998. Our website went live in the spring of 2002, about 2 months before we found our house. Since our site chronicles most everything about us, it was the obvious next step to use it for our ongoing home renovation fun.

It's been great for sharing what's become a huge part of our lives with many of our friends and family who live a couple thousand miles away and several of whom have never seen the house in the 3 years since we bought it. And as someone said above, provides a nice pick-me-up when we're feeling nothing's getting done and that we'll be living in a perpetual construction zone for the rest of our natural lives.

My blog started in all the excitement in buying our first house and because I wanted to be JUST LIKE Brit and SD (http://www.clarkcreekhomeimprovement.blogspot.com/). Then it became a chronicle of what we've done (I've never been a diary-keeper) and an easy way to keep relatives updated. Finally, it has become my motivation. If I haven't done anything "post-worthy" in a few days, I know I'm slacking! And recently, it has been my tie to the house-blogging community. It's satisfying to be a part of this group.

I have a website, but it just got too complicated to constantly update all the changes we making to our home. A blog is soooo much simpler.

I think it's hard when one spends all this time on renovation etc... and so few people (that I know anyway) are interested in hearing about it, it's nice to just put it out there and maybe find others who appreciate the same things. It's not so lonely or weird that way. I just started blogging, but have been reading for a while.

We, too, had family and friends out-of-town/out-of-state. At first we just had a page of pictures up ('' check out our crazy house"), but as we started doing stuff, we wanted an organized way to let people know what was going on. Plus, after building sites for so many other people, I finally had a reason to have my very own.