Keeping a journal is something that I have always wanted to do, but never really managed to find time for. This beautiful Garden Journal from lf’n Books is practically begging for someone to pick it up and start writing out their life history. Illustrated by Jen Corace, this journal is a limited edition, [...]

With our loan in place, we can finally start on our addition. We spent some time carefully marking out the exterior walls of the addition for our excavator. You can see in the picture above the outline of the addition. It was crazy to see it all marked out, it really is [...]

So this weekend, I was battling a bad cold, but I still had time to work on the shower a little bit. It was actually a multiple day project that started last weekend. First I had to install all of the floor drains. There is one inside the shower area, and one [...]

CB2 always has some great stuff. They are a great alternative to Ikea when you are looking for something that is both modern and affordable. Point in case; The Silo Pendant Lamp shown above is only $39. That is a total steal for such a classy chrome pendant. The floral wall art [...]

We finally got around to buying a shower. We used some left over Christmas money and splurged a little bit. We ended up with the Danze parma tub/shower combo shown above. We obviously don’t need the tub part, but that lets us use the diverter that is below the faucet handle to [...]

Over in the forums, rjr is looking for a little help deciding what to do for the exterior of his house.
I posted this before several months ago and received some good feedback. But I still can’t decide what do with the exterior of this house? I figured posting a picture of the house in it’s [...]

We had to re-work the elevations of our addition the other day. We were planning on using hardi panel ripped down to 9 3/4″. Turns out it is a lot easier to get Hardi Trim so you don’t have to spend all that time cutting it down. Unfortunately the Hardi Trim only [...]

Last night I was at a friends house helping put up some trim, and we were listening to The Shins. They are one of my favorite new bands, along with the Decemberists. So if you are a Shins lover, and have never heard of the Decemberists, click on the picture to [...]

The search for a good rocking chair for my wife to rock our baby in has not been an easy one. Most of the choices are way out of our budget. The Rocco Rocking Armchair is a new kid on the block as far as tasteful rockers go. Great mid-century design teamed [...]

For some time I have been double posting everything to our forums, thinking replies would be easier to search there. Some people still are commenting below the posts here.

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