Oct 26, 2007 | DIY, House & Home
On our quest for tasks to tackle before Macky returns, we continued with demolition today. Our revised plans now include a built-in closet – however, this one is a bit different. The built-in closet will be created by taking in a “dead space” between...Oct 25, 2007 | DIY, Homesteading Life, House & Home
We have talked about Jake’s Chair quite a few times on this blog, but so far there has been too much going on around here to take the time to actually build one. Now that construction of the guest house has kind of been on hold for the past two weeks we have...Oct 25, 2007 | DIY, House & Home
After this morning’s renovation depression it seems we are making a bit of headway. A trip to Hornbach and then on to Hagebau gave us enough supplies to continue with some of our projects not dependent on Macky and after just a few more hours of work we are...Oct 25, 2007 | DIY, House & Home
This morning’s blog post is therapeutic for us, it’s time to moan and groan about the standstill we have experienced for the past two weeks. After discovering that we are just not strong enough and don’t have enough hands to put up the ceiling...Oct 18, 2007 | DIY, House & Home
Aside from getting our behinds kicked by the ceiling drywall we had a pretty successful day regarding the guest house. This morning we took a trip to Conrad, think home depot for all things electronic, to pick up most of the things we need for lighting and wiring....Oct 18, 2007 | DIY, House & Home
After spending nearly 2 hours mounting a small piece of dry wall to the ceiling and then nearly knocking ourselves out when we attempted to mount a full sized piece of drywall we are calling in the troops. We have realized, that just the two of us can not mount the...