The Roof, plus Porch
Brooke here. Last time, I wrote about the problems with getting the roof project going. Now, it’s roof-and-porch rebuild time.
Tag: paint
Precarious Death Stairs, Revisited.
ETA: The blog is being rebooted as an incentive for my Patreon Supporters. All posts go live after a week, but Supporters at the $10+ tiers get early access. Thank you! Brooke here. This isn’t the first post I wanted to put up on the rebooted blog. There is so so so much that needs […]
Yes, They Do Windows. Both Sides, Actually…
Brooke here. We’re Angie’s List members. It’s an… interesting service. It’s rather like paying money to subscribe to an opinionated phone book. I have found that most of the reviews are a few steps above Amazon’s, and pretty much on par with Goodreads: yes, some folks have various axes to grind and they want to […]
Wood rot!
Brooke here. What a delightfully eventful summer that was! I don’t know about you guys, but it seemed as though our friends and family drifted from crisis to crisis, like polar bears trying to find a place to bash a seal over the head in an ever-shrinking ice field… And now summer is over, and […]
Sherman-Williams April Paint Sale
Guys! Guys! It’s coming! The biggest sale of the year at Sherman-Williams is April 19-22! 40% off, plus an additional 10% if you’re already in their system as a preferred customer. Which I am. This public service message has been brought to you by the Cheap-Ass Division of Bleeding Wallets, Anonymous.
Probably time to start with the bathroom posts
Brooke here: The hallway bathroom has been remodeled. It… Oh boy. Let’s start with how it originally looked when we first bought the house: Yeah, that’s a lot of yellow. It’s not a large bathroom, about 50 square feet, so the yellow was extra-concentrated. The bathroom came with a built-in pantry closet (door on the […]
The Fence, Part I
Brooke here. A few weeks ago, we received notification from the city that our Crazy Poet Disasterhouse had been reappraised at much more than we had paid for it. I floated on a cloud for about three days, thinking our hard work had finally paid off (hey, I don’t know how the government does this […]
I was gone for three days!
Brooke here: While I was standing in the bird decoy store waiting for the SWAT team to leave — (Which is a rather ridiculous story about a dude who made a very poor judgement call by placing a geocache under the floor of an ice cream shop… while wearing camouflage… and failing to label the […]
+1 Bed
Brooke here: Brown was sick over the weekend, so we had to postpone Chainsawaganza. In the meantime, I did some projects on the Neverending List of Things to Do that didn’t require heavy lifting. One such project was repainting a metal bedframe. We bought the bedframe new last year and we quite like the overall […]
The Precarious Death Stairs
Brooke here: The more I think about it, the more I think something dramatic needs to be done to the Precarious Death Stairs (PDS), and soon. One of the first things Brown did when we moved in was buy a powerful motion-activated LED to light the stairwell (which I removed when taking the picture as […]
Flying by night 