More Furniture Finds
After buying the lovely table at Michaan’s I started visiting in person during their preview hours and thanks to a…
Category: Interior
Blue Room Refresh: Part 2
Continuing on from Monday’s post, back in early February of 2019 we ordered a Murphy bed from murphybeds.com and it…
Lick the Cookie
One of bits of decor we’ve added to the house is a long (and growing longer) row of patent plaques…
Console Tables
(Sorry, no witty-punny sort of title came to mind for this post.) Back in early 2019 I started scouring the…
Teaky Teak
Before the teak that runs through most of the main areas of the house could be refinished a lot, and…
Craiglist, Chicago and Lumber Liquidators
It’s been a while since regular posts have been going up, and even though we’re under a shelter in place…
Under the House
After the furnace work was completed I took a lot of pics and videos of what is under the interior…
The Pantry Revisited
Before the dust had even settled from the great furnace replacement project we had to start putting the house back…
Getting Off the Diesel: Part 1
Back in May of 2018 we started the very large project of decommissioning our twin diesel furnaces. It seemed like…
Replacing the Second Hot Water Heater
In December of 2017 we had the second water heater replaced. Our house has two water heaters: one for the…
Last Studio Details: Blinds and Curtains
Continuing on from the last two posts, as part of the studio renovation we ordered in remote-control motorized blinds via…
Studio Painting
Before lights and rugs and blinds were installed in the studio building, we had our regular painter come and give…
Sealing and Lighting the Studio
The long, drawn-out saga of the studio building has taken longer to write about than the actual work took to…
Fast Kitchen Makeovers: Part 3
One last recent addition in the kitchen was so simple I installed it myself the same day Agent Smith and…
Fast Kitchen Makeovers: Part 2
The last post covered the simple fan controller changes we did in the kitchen, which got me thinking about the…
Fast Kitchen Makeovers: Part 1
The previous owners of the house had rather questionable design taste, as evidenced by the kitchen and bathroom remodels they…
Finishing Touches in the North Office
Continuing on from the last post…after my office space was repainted there was still work to be done. I decided…
Office Recoloring
When we bought this place just about every room was painted in the same blah color of light poop-brown. My…