Framing is all finished and the cement has been poured. We were home during the pour on one of my LTFT days and Arden was fascinated. We watched until one of the guys’ pants went waaaaay beyond plumber’s crack. I have to say in my experience, that plumber’s crack is an entirely earned title. Along with brickeys and siding guys… One {…Continue Reading}
Day two of framing, and I think I’m in love! Okay, it’s a tad on the obnoxiously tall side, but we got the wall height variance and the neighbors had the opportunity to contest it at that point. C’est la vie, or so they say… Now I think we might need to do some exterior upgrades on {…Continue Reading}
I don’t have any fun projects completed to post, so I’ll just do a quick wrap up of what’s been going on. We broke ground – literally – on our garage reconstruction. On Thursday, they took out the old slab, dug for the footings, and put in the foundation walls. We’re using a treated lumber {…Continue Reading}
So, the last time we talked about the garage reconstruction, it looked like this: Since then, we cleaned up the last bits of the structure and crammed it all into the rented dumpster – barely. The builder came out and checked the foundation and it’s not adequate for the new garage. So, that meant the {…Continue Reading}
I am super-geeked about this project. Arden loves it already, and I am pretty darn pleased with myself for making it for her! Super-hubby Dave has been busy with major outdoor projects for several recent weekends (fence installation, garage demolition), so I decided that Labor day weekend would be my DIY weekend. I was inspired {…Continue Reading}
It’s funny how big projects seem to stretch out forever, and then all of a sudden, things come together seemingly overnight. We’ve been working on a garage reconstruction project for about a year. We started by asking my brother to draw up some plans for us.  We wanted to mirror the roofline of our house to {…Continue Reading}
