With a large and beautiful central stairwell in the house, we needed something grand in terms of lighting. When we were finishing the house originally, we really just slapped three lights together into a fixture; it wasn’t very impressive. Given the tall nature of our stairwell, we needed to build a platform to allow forRead more about Chandelier![…]
We’ve got a great chicken coop, and have some movable fences we use to create a larger area to let the chickens out in from time to time. We finally settled on a more permanent “yard” area around the coop and our shed. Wanting something more permanent, we had a fence built, partly inspired byRead more about House tweaks – chicken fence[…]
I’ve been wanting a workbench in the garage for a while, and the floor was starting to get stained just from the cars. We started our makeover by doing an epoxy coat on the floor. Here is the before: The process was surprisingly complicated and thorough. They started by grinding down the entire floor, grindingRead more about Garage makeover[…]
We’ve been keeping a list of finish carpentry projects, and adding some shelves was among them. All three of our daughters are voracious readers. We constantly run out of bookshelf space, so we added built-in shelves to two of the girls rooms. We’re still waiting for the painters to have time to paint some ofRead more about House tweaks – adding shelves[…]
Building a house is an exercise in financial exhaustion, so when we finished construction we weren’t exactly in the mood to spend a lot of money on quality art. We mostly just hung what we already had, some of which was very nice, and other just stuff to hang on the walls. We’ve add aRead more about Art![…]