BHH has fallen victim to a serious ice dam problem. I made this little video to show you how serious ice dams can be.
I also created this follow-up video to tell a little bit more about the problem as it relates to our attic.
I have been working on this issue to no avail,…
The downstairs hallway is getting ready for its makeover.
Over the weekend, I scrubbed the baseboards and identified the trouble spots. The entire space is in pretty good shape. The typical issue of latex paint over oil-based without a proper primer was apparent on the doors and baseboards. I found plenty of bubbled paint on both.
The…
These last few weeks have been filled with unfinished projects. For the record, I feel much more satisfied with work that has a definite end date. I am not the kind of person who enjoys reading four books at a time or having what some might call a "creative mess." Even so, sitting with the…
A couple of months ago, I repaired the legs on our foyer dresser. In addition to posting the tutorial here on the blog, I also shared it on Hometalk. Hometalk is an online community where members can share their home improvement ideas or projects, and they are able to ask and answer all of their DIY…
We enjoyed another snowstorm over the weekend. Our family is getting so used to snow that anything under a foot elicits only a slight nod of interest. Andy and I shoveled for two hours Saturday morning. We passed the time by pretending we were prison inmates on work release or prison inmates tunneling our way…
This post is a little late because two of the kids and I had an impromptu hotel sleepover due to dangerous whiteout conditions while we were driving the ten miles home from their fencing class. Ten miles! Have I mentioned that winter is difficult here? It is crazy to think that we were so close to home,…