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...
by Tiffany | Jul 25, 2007 | Decorating, DIY, House & Home
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...
by Tiffany | Jul 25, 2007 | DIY, Homesteading Life, House & Home, Pets, The puppy years (1-2)
Over the past few days I’ve been painting the doors inside our house and Ayla decided yesterday that she needed to help. I don’t think it was really her main intention but she came in the house, leaned up against a door jam, froze in place when I told her...
by Tiffany | Jul 23, 2007 | DIY, Homesteading Life, House & Home
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...
by Tiffany | Jul 22, 2007 | DIY, House & Home
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...