Now it’s getting somewhere good

Now it’s getting somewhere good

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...

A new woodworking project coming up

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...

Adventures in stained concrete

After reading my post about us planning to put down wood tiles in the chicken coop, my mom recommended we think about doing an acid stain on the concrete instead. Just the name alone sounds intimidating but it would likely turn out to be a must more economical option...

The chicken coop gets a new wall

Some are probably wondering where we disappeared to this weekend although we usually go pretty silent over the weekends and that’s usually because we’re working so hard. This weekend we decided to throw ourselves back into some work and started the to...

Every project has a practice project

It seems that around here there is a practice project for every one of our major renovation projects. For example, the lower wall by the front door is in dire need of new plaster. It’s a major project and of course very visible to everyone entering our house so...