Composting
When we moved in, we started composting our kitchen scraps. While we had a garbage disposal in the kitchen sink, we soon learned to not…
Tag: Kitchen
Tiling Success
A few years back, I started researching if it would be possible to get matching tiles made for the great room. I found the original…
The Pantry Fridge
When we moved in, the place came with three refrigerators–one each in the kitchen, pantry and garage. The listing photos from when the previous owners…
A Space We Finally Use
Going from a somewhat tiny house in San Francisco to this place meant it took a long time for us to use certain facets of…
The Extra Door
Revisiting something mentioned in an earlier post and providing a bit more detail. Most of the doors here are sliding glass ones, but when we…
Related to the Great Room: Kitchen Touch-ups
While painting the great room, one extra thing our painter tackled for us was covering patched areas in the kitchen–where the old furnace register once…
When in doubt, just print it
It’s been two years since we bought our first 3D printer–a Prusa MK3, based upon a friend’s recommendation–and we learned very early on that one…
Arcadia
A somewhat odd fact about the living space at Purgatory is that we have many exterior doors for both the house and studio buildings. The…
Samsung Technical Support: OMFG it’s worse that I could ever imagine.
So the last post was about our new oven, and after it went live, I decided to finally try again to tackle the annoying issue…
And Again With the Kitchen Appliances
Since buying this place, we’ve had to replace the refrigerator because we couldn’t actually open the door–because the POs were…well….idiots. We’ve replaced the dishwasher because…
Fast Kitchen Makeovers, Part 3
One last recent kitchen addition was so simple, I installed it myself the same day Agent Smith and his father took apart and cleaned the…
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 powers of Amazon and the…
Fast Kitchen Makeovers, Part 1
The previous owners of the house had rather questionable design taste, evidenced by the kitchen and bathroom remodels they completed prior to relisting the property.…
Finishing the Kitchen Chairs
Continuing from a post waaaay back at the start of this year… Once the metal kitchen chairs were disassembled, it was time to obtain new…
More Kitchen Chairs
While rebuilding the Great Wall last year, Agent Smith’s father took some time to refinish the kitchen table and chairs. In September of this year,…
Another Appliance Story
Since moving in, we have had issues on and off with the dishwasher. The POs remodeled the kitchen in late 2014/early 2015 to better their…
Again with the kitchen sink
A few months after we moved in, I posted about our kitchen sink. We have limited space to its right, so we purchased a small dishrack…
The Kitchen Table
Way back in 2000, my grandmother moved out of the house she had lived in for close to fifty years, and as part of the…
Sink Update
As noted a few weeks back, our new kitchen faucet ran into a couple of serious hiccups, leaving us with no hot water or clear…
A bit of decor
Our front foyer was sorely lacking a spot for people to sit and take off or put on their shoes. This is an issue when…
How California Politicians Screwed Up My Kitchen Sink
A bit of background before I begin what is about to be a giant rant. The kitchen sink faucet that came with our house was…
The good bad refrigerator
When the POs remodeled the kitchen, they used Lowes. I found this out thanks to another issue I’m currently chasing down. It seems the POs just…
…and the kitchen sink
A while back we had the old water softener replaced. The guys from City Water Filter also looked at the reverse-osmosis setup under our kitchen…
Photo Stream* Highlights
I finally posted some new images up on our Photo Stream. (Update: the Photo Stream is no more, so here are some highlights and a…