It’s 8:00am Saturday morning, I’ve just finished carrying a couple hundred pound I-beam into the basement, with much needed help from my father, to use as a linear support for jacking joists back up flush with the girders and sublfooring and replacing sagging ledgers. We began at what so far seems to be the more […]

Now that the dining room is painted, the giant gouge of a doorway that leads to the stairs stands out even more.
Here’s what it looks like right now:

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Why the hole-like appearance of what appears to be an original doorway? Well, our house was a two-family for some period of time, and the […]

This Saturday marked our second full week in the house, and once again we managed to make a dent in our project list. Hurray for being young, able-bodied, and energetic.
On Thursday, I made a stop at Sherwin Williams on my way home from work. I am extremely picky about paint colors. I used to buy […]