by Tiffany | Oct 6, 2007 | DIY, House & Home
For almost a year now (since we started construction and put in the new windows and doors in the kitchen) we’ve had big gray areas on the walls of the house where everything was patched up. We’ve gotten so used to them we started to think it might look...
by Tiffany | Oct 6, 2007 | DIY, House & Home
Yesterday we posted about our recent success while working on the exterior base wall of the main house. Today we planned to plug a few holes where some of the bird housing used to be…and since we’d have plenty of mortar left over from those places, Stefan...
by Tiffany | Aug 2, 2007 | DIY, Homesteading Life, House & Home
I’m nearly uninspired to write about these doors and the trim but I figure at least I’m nearly done for now and perhaps writing about it will help me to forget it happened. It’s not that the results are not worth it – they completely are....
by Tiffany | Aug 1, 2007 | DIY, Homesteading Life, House & Home
We had a heater repairman come out this morning because our water heater has slowly been getting colder and colder. When we bought the house almost a year ago, the water from the tap was warm enough t make a cup of instant cappuccino. We could easily shower for 30...
by Tiffany | Jul 31, 2007 | DIY, House & Home
This weekend we worked ourselves hard again and managed to paint the entire chicken coop, brick out a hole in the wall leading to the outhouse and dungheap (which the dog loved to use when we first got this house and Ayla smelled just lovely after romping around in...
by Tiffany | Jul 26, 2007 | DIY, House & Home
If you read our houseblog, you probably saw that we were working on the chicken coop last weekend and made some progress is re-plastering the wall which was destroyed after years of exposure to chicken nitrates. This weekend we’ll be putting in a wooden tile...