Not all the remodeling of a home is done inside the basic four walls of the house. Developing the potential of the outside can be just as daunting a task as renovating the inside. In some ways, though, landscaping can be more quickly satisfying than remodeling, though it can also hold the promise of long-term benefits. […]
Construction
Living in This [Leaky] Old House
We first saw the house almost two years ago, and the smell of mildew probably should have scared us away, but it didn’t. It was obvious, from the state of the ceiling (gaping seams between the sheets of drywall, with chunks and peelings of spackle trying to fall) and the carpet (large square in the […]
Moving from Storage to Sanctuary
It’s amazing to me, how one space, with a little bit of work, can serve two entirely different purposes. Take, for instance, our current storage space. Right now, a cumulative fifty years’ worth of junk is sorted (more or less) on floor-to-ceiling, wall-to-wall shelving, tucked in a tall-boy dresser, and stacked in a double-wide closet […]