This is for all you WordPress bloggers out there…. everyone else can ignore the geekery to follow. A few weeks ago, I upgraded WordPress (the software this site runs on) to version 2.0 – about a week later, I noticed that my tags (keywords chosen by me to help you all find related content – […]

Last week, Marilyn of Hauser Haus kindly pointed out that when hung the closet door so that it opened inward, we essentially cut our storage space in half. And the minute I read her comment, I went “DOH!”. How could we have mindlessly hung it the way we had, and then how we could have […]

Even though we’re taking a break from major home projects, I find that I can’t stop myself from doing something, anything, to make the house a happier place to live. We toyed around with drywall here and there, but I spent most of the weekend practicing the greatest holiday ever invented: DISCARDIA. In the creator’s […]

I experienced the bathroom in a whole new way last night, and it really made me wish we’d have squeezed radiant heat into the budget. That’s because I got struck with a nasty stomach bug around 1am, and spent most of the night curled up on a bathmat on the (very cold) tile floor. In […]

We’ve been taking a break from nitty gritty house projects for the past few weeks. We totally earned it, and any energy that remained after our bathroom remodel was destroyed by the blank grayness of winter. This is my least favorite time of year in Central New York, and I’m sure I’m not alone. February […]

I won this cute little light fixture for $3.50 the other day: We’re in need of something for the bathroom ceiling, and for just about every other ceiling in the upstairs. We’ve got a grand total of 9 “plastic chandeliers” up right now. Like this: So a new (cheap) light fixture is always welcome. I […]

If we ever leave this house, we’re going somewhere south. Somewhere sunny and warm, where winter means a light jacket after sunset. Not snowsuits, triple layers, and full days of shoveling. All winter we’ve been dodging bullets, revelling in our luck that all giant snowstorms seem to fall just north or south of us. About […]

Right now, I have a camera full of bathroom photos that I’m dying to share… but since I just spent forever and a day helping Teague type up the shower post, I’m not feeling energetic enough to whip out another long one today. And the bathroom “afters” certainly deserve a long one. Instead, I’ll practice […]

The other day, I finally figured out why this project was stressing me out so much. It wasn’t the mess, or the expense, or the lack of free time. It was having to share a teeny tiny bathroom with Teague every morning. This is the bathroom we’re using right now: See that teeny tiny little […]

Ok, decision time. HELP! We’re going to go wainscoting in the bathroom. It’s going to be white. Originally, it was going to be 8′ sheets of beadboard because it’s cheap and easy, and looks pretty good. Then I saw this magazine photo of a bathroom with tin tile used as wainscoting, and I pretty much […]