DIY

We’ve got the room painted, a new light fixture hung, and our hardwood floors selected. You can read all about part 1 here and selecting our flooring here. The next step to creating our home library was installing the flooring upstairs. We purchased a pneumatic floor nailer from Harbor Freight and a small, ...

I said I wasn’t going to touch our upstairs area, and that was a big fat lie. Hear me out. A lot of my other projects are at a standstill until we can get the floor a little more stable. For instance, I don’t want to lay down tile in ...

I've been looking at upgrading our interior doors for a while now, which are cheap, hollow-core doors. The cottage was built in the 1940s, and the doors should reflect that. I looked at new solid doors that had a little more detail, and they were quite pricey. While I believe ...

Because my home has so many large projects that take time to complete, I sometimes like to throw in a few small projects to make it feel like I’m actually accomplishing something. It’s like writing simple tasks that you’ve already completed on a to-do lists just to cross it off ...

It seems like I always have projects lying around that needs to be finished up. Does that happen to anyone else? I picked up this vintage desk back in November. It sat unfinished in my living room for a few months, but I think it turned out exactly how I ...