Our 1931 bungalow is built in the craftsman style. While we certainly don’t embrace everything about this architecture style indoors, we do as much as we can to retain its character outside. So...
While searching for something totally unrelated at one of our favorite haunts (hardware store) the other day, we picked up these two houseplants. They’re a Dracaena and a Croton (crouton? mmm),...
As we promised, here’s our complete run-down on how we installed our galvanized shower surround. If you’ve followed us at all recently, you know we just upgraded our basement bathroom and took ...
We’re finally finished with our basement bathroom renovation (read all about it here, here, here and here), and we’re eager to show you all our hard work. But, first, let’s take a l...
We’ve been composting for a while now, and we’re excited to finally use all that rich compost next spring when we begin gardening again. For a long time, we’ve kept all our food scr...
We’re coming very close to being done with all the bathroom updates we’re making to our basement bathroom. From installing a new (to us) sink to laying a new floor, we’ve done quite...
For the past few days, I’ve been painting and repairing our exterior windows. While the weather has been much cooler around here, I thought I’d take advantage of some time off to get some...
One of the great things about our house is the large basement that would nearly double our living space if it were all in good shape and livable. That’s why we’ve been working to get it u...
We’ve made mention of our favorite thrift store in the past. It’s where we’ve picked up a lot of essentials, furniture, and random stuff over the years. Just the other day, we spied...
Our garage had become a huge mess. We organized it last fall, but we didn’t do the best job, and everything ended up a big cluttered heap again. As you know, we’re in the process of updat...
We’ve had a plethora of cucumbers in the past few weeks. Jarrett doesn’t really eat cucumbers, and if I’m the only one eating them, we needed to come up with a way to make them last...
Catherine’s parents are both college professors. They started back to school this week and are leading some freshman groups in orientation to start off the new school year. I couldn’t bel...
The basement bathroom, which we started a few weeks back, is still very much in progress, but we’re making plenty of progress. We’ve put in a new sink, and now we have a floor! You’...
We’ve been holding out on this one for a while. But, many of you probably already caught on (and maybe that’s why you’re here in the first place). Our basement has recently undergon...
You really can’t beat a good sandwich. And if you add pork products to that sandwich, all the better! That’s why a good B.L.T. is so satisfying. We’re also huge fans of one of Jarre...
Our current project is our basement bathroom. Little by little, we’re amassing all the things and completing all the projects it’ll take to finish the room off. One of the most important ...
When we tell people we’ve done the majority of the work on our house ourselves, they always ask, “How did you learn to do that stuff?”. First, I’m no expert on home repair by ...
A tiny unripe lemon from our dwarf lemon tree. Yeah, really tiny. We had to pull it off early (that’s why it’s still green), because we were afraid it was keeping the tree from really gro...
After a nice break visiting family in Tennessee, we’re back! We enjoyed our time away and time spent with Jarrett’s parents and family, and we even managed to bring back a few great finds...
We’re leaving today for a short road trip. We’ll be away from our computers, too, so we won’t be updating the site for a few days. We’ll come back soon refreshed and ready to ...
I finally got around to replacing the bare light bulb hanging on the corner of our garage with this jelly jar light fixture we blogged about some time ago. Here’s the sad exposed bulb before: A...
One week ago was our three-year anniversary. We got married in Catherine’s hometown, Rockford (about 85 miles northwest of Chicago). A lot of work went into pulling off our wedding, and we had ...
Summers are mad busy around here. Catherine is teaching summer school, which, though it gets out at 12:30, still makes for quite a bit of work over the break. She’s also taking a couple of clas...
Well, we’ve torn out the tile and ripped the old sink out. We still have lots of work to do to pull our basement bathroom together. As usual, we’ve pulled together some of our favorite ba...
Maybe it’s because we’re just too restless and can’t leave well enough alone. Or maybe it’s because in reality, we’re energized by always having a project to be done. Wh...
The other day, we mentioned wanting to cook our squash blossoms. Several readers recommended their favorite ways of preparing them and even sent us recipes. We decided last night to take one of those...
When we put our shelving system in our back room, we knew we would need some light scattered among the shelves to keep things bright…especially since we put a ceiling fan in with no light fixtu...
The weather here has been a bit crazy. It’s been hot, but it’s also stormed nearly every day for the past two or three weeks. Lots of rain can make for some not-so-great gardens, but ours...
This week, we decided to take our neglected guest bedroom and finish things up a bit. Only, we wanted to use what we had on hand and spend absolutely no money on it. Luckily, we had already begun fin...
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