I drove in to work today behind a Lexus SUV with a “Git-R-Done” bumper sticker. I think that sums up our new location pretty well. Even in the dead of winter (February being the grayest, coldest, and most miserable month here in CNY) I just couldn’t kill the urge to walk around town and explore [...]

You guys rule. Seriously. After anxiously releasing my big announcement into the blogosphere yesterday I wasn’t sure what the response would be. Here at home we’ve gotten a lot of support. But we’ve also gotten questioning glances and a few folks outright begged us to change our minds.  So I was relieved to see a [...]

Hold tight, kids…. this is a big one! Since roughly August, my posts have been sporadic and the house work non-existant. I’m sure you’ve noticed a change in our pace. It was partly DIY burnout, partly the result of finishing nearly everything we wanted to change. But there is another reason we’ve been hands-off at [...]

My poor, neglected houseblog. It’s been far too long since I’ve written something insightful or useful for our readers. There was a time when so much was going on around our house that I literally could not keep up! Lately we’re stretching if we bother to change a blown light bulb.  And yet, we’ve made [...]

I haven’t written in a horribly long time, and I don’t even have a good excuse. Let’s blame the holidays and a touch of seasonal depression, shall we? We’re planning quite a few big changes here at Fixer-Upper for 2008, many of which we’ll be sharing with all you blog readers in the near future. [...]

This article gives us all yet another reason to DIY. When you find that big stash of money (and we all know we’ve got money in the walls, or the floors, or somewhere, right? Pretty please?) you do not want to share it. According to this Yahoo article, a homeowner and contractor are in a [...]

You’ll read in just about every women’s magazine on earth that holiday traditions bring people closer together and create warm fuzzy feelings that keep us warm when it’s sleeting sheets of freezing rain outside. They push all sorts of grand-scale traditions, like decorating the entire outside of your house in hand-cut evergreen fronds and glitter-encrusted [...]

Guess what came in the mail yesterday? A reward for all my hard work blogging our remodeling and renovation adventures. My very own, light-weight, small-enough-to-comfortably-grip 18 volt Master Mechanic cordless drill. This is the first power tool in our whole arsenal that is all mine. That excites me for two reasons; first, I can put [...]

On this, the holiest of all shopping days, I’m sitting in my craft room working on a few homemade Christmas gifts, consciously avoiding the spending frenzy. I’m a bargain hunter, which makes it tempting to head out in search of those “great deals”…. I took a long hard look at the Lowe’s flyer yesterday, but [...]

A friend passed along this “consumer alert” via email… too funny not to share: Home Depot Alert A ‘Heads Up’ for those of us men who may be regular Home Depot customers. Over the last month I became a victim of a clever scam while out shopping. Simply going out to get supplies has turned [...]