I'm a home improvement enthusiast, living a very merry DIY lifestyle.
You can find me writing for Home Living Handbook, HGTV.com, and a handful of other websites. Follow me on facebook and instagram, or drop me a note if you'd like. I love notes.
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Happy day of independence, thanks for visiting, and most of all, thanks for giving me a second chance on the whole stair painting efforts. Last week I shared with you …
It wasn't too long ago that I snapped this photo of some lady's foot and a great wooden (albeit very weathered) doormat at one of my random garage sale stops. …
I had an urge to update the front porch light yesterday. It was just one of those totally-out-of-the-blue idea initiated by a realization that the existing light needed a good …
I wasn't hiding the destroyed entryway from you, really. I just forgot about it. Back when I moved in, I painted it a nice clean white, installed some quarter round trim, …
Come on over now, Grandma. Between the handrail that I reinstalled on the inside staircase and the brand-spankin' new front porch with fancy dual-handrails that is about to be revealed, …
I lived through 710 days of a house with an ugly storm door. It's (in my possibly way-too-detail-oriented-brain) the one thing people notice as they're approaching the house, ringing the …
Things that I'm OK saying now that Pete moved out of his apartment? It's really easy to break-in to homes through cheap sliding glass doors. This is a little post about keeping …
5 months after finishing the siding, and 1 month after originally shopping for outdoor lights (I wrote about that over here), I made my selection and ordered the Mini Coach …
A by-the-seat-of-our-pants plan to DIY some entryway shoe storage yielded pure awesomeness. And, it was free. Tired of not having a place to leave our snow covered shoes, Pete manufactured …
When I had the house re-sided, the side door spotlight needed to be uninstalled by the crew. Because I knew that I didn't want the same one reinstalled (it was …
It's times like this that my pocketbook is happy (do people say pocketbook anymore? How old am I?). My house number is a simple 1 and 5, so when it …
Back before the snow really started, I dwelled about how I really needed to come up with a good way to store my wet boots and protect my nice hardwood …
One of the projects I proudly accomplished in 2010 was replacing the front entry door to my house; the one that had been installed wasn't in bad shape or anything, …
I never really expected that the new front porch construction had a glimmer of a chance of happening before springtime, but temperatures in the low-50's on New Year's Eve melted …
Not too long ago, I wrote about my aversion to bad vinyl flooring. During the course of that floor restoration project, I removed some particularly lousy faux-rock vinyl squares that …
I'm really not a vinyl floor kind of girl. Hardwoods have my heart. Ceramic, great; porcelain, marble, or slate, amazing (and heated tile, especially in the bathroom, even better). But …
Alright, not everything works as well as planned. I vow to share with you the good, the bad, and the ugly, because no one's perfect, but at least you deserve …
We had our first note-worthy snowfall of the season in Rochester yesterday, which unfortunately halted the crew working on my siding, but allowed me plenty of time to veg out …
I was never able to figure out exactly why the hardwood front porch was designed like it was. The front of the house has a small overhang measuring about 4'x6', …
I'm a home improvement enthusiast, living a very merry DIY lifestyle. Follow me on facebook and instagram, or drop me a note if you'd like. I love notes.
You can find me writing for Home Living Handbook, HGTV.com, and a handful of other websites.
Thanks for visiting!
