This is the dining room table I inherited from my grandma. It matches the buffet. I wish she had had some chairs for me to inherit. I'm not even sure what kind of chairs would go with it.

Our remodeled bathroom

Our remodeled bathroom

Papa Ben is removing the chandelier.

The free sod I got from across the street - Which, as you can see, is doing about as well as you'd think free sod would.

We found this behind the mirror at my grandma's condo. She's lived there for 20 years. We know neither Paul, nor Sharon.

Same for this side, but they haven't been planted as long.

$80 mirror, got it for $20. :)

The trim around the outside needed to be re-fastened. Shrinking wood had loosened up all the nails!

And here is the door basking the warm, glowing rays of the blah blah blah....

new cedar deck and we helped! May 2006

I was only able to get the backsplash up on one wall this afternoon. The process went slower than I had planned because of all the spacers that were needed.

After a bunch of hassle with levels and drills and cutting my thumb, I'm finally putting the screws into the drywall anchors.

project black wall. L had fun!

BAH! I've had painting tape disasters before, but this was was weird. I had taped up the wall before painting the ceiling and I took the tape off less than 20 minutes after finishing my painting. This one wall it just snatched up all the paint. So my Saturday Night painting adventures continued. :)

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Carpet up, padding up, moat of nails up, staples and nails up, and everything shopvacced, with a rug thrown down for good measure (and to cover a couple of gnarly splintery spots for the moment.

The beautifully messy bathroom! Part of the wall is lath (as you can see) and part is a double layer of concrete on top of drywall (the area behind, above and to the left of the toilet).

Wife grabbed this shot while I was going through doing some detail scraping and pulling some staples, brushing up as I went to keep the pulled staples and dust in one place while I scooted around.

Low deterrents. Diabetes will not stop the fun

The new storm door in the last of the daylight. Who is that strange little man in my kitchen??

Got it all off with the aid of an air-powered impact chisel. ;)

A closer view of the decomposed granite sand.