on the kitchen renovation... and my sanity. Yesterday was not a great day on the house renovation front. Not as bad as the previous week whe...

The last of the projects completed without my supervision. This time it was replacing the rotted redwood siding under the sliding door in th...

We started Saturday with a long list of things to do in the yard, things we'd been putting off until the weather got warmer and with tem...

So the advice I received after yesterday's post was to remove the rotted siding. And of course what I had forgotten is the possible dama...

When you're rehabing a house how do you know whether a project is renovation or just simply maintenance? For example, that vanity unit w...

We have a new roof! It was supposed to go on a couple of weeks ago but the rains delayed things. This morning, however, Tom the roofer and t...

I can't get over the difference that the paint and stain has made to the outside of the house. The redwood stain has hardly changed the ...

Summer is almost over and winter will be here before we know it, so we are taking advantage of the unseasonably clement weather to waterproo...