Goodbye Window Film, Hello Pella Windows and Sliding Doors!
As a designer, I often counsel people, "You can't do it all at once." Okay some can, but most of us can not. And we did replace the majority of the windows...
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Fall: Time to Get Your DIY On :: 3 Products 3 Projects :: Roof Flashing, Carpet Pads & Compost Tea
Fall by far has been my best season for diy. Ironic perhaps, the easy, cooler temperatures setting in, but a sorta kick in the pants somehow. I mean – I inevitably find...
The Four P’s of Refinishing Furniture with Paint :: How to Paint a Table
The most important things to remember when you’re refinishing furniture with paint is that several things need to work together to ensure your success—a stain-blocking primer, a paint with a durable finish,...
The Tip of the Rowhome and Working with Aluminum Coil Stock
The zen master, an artist in aluminum, Tom Struble pointed me to this technique. While Stephen R Christopher called out the term "Brick Bend" for me, it was Tom who suggested that...
Seeding a New Lawn :: My Own Personal Growth
This front yard, when the home was purchased, had a rather medium-sized and unruly tree smack dab in the middle of it. In an effort to make the home more curb-appealing, Mrs....
Mrs Moxie Flips Out :: The Bride of Building Moxie Flips Houses
This particular house, a Colonial (I guess), sits less than a mile from ours. After a short shopping period, she purchased it for a near rock bottom price . . . after...
Want to Buy a Fixer Upper? Five Tips to Help You Decide If You’re Ready
It can be a fun project, a great investment, or even a good way to settle into your forever home without spending a fortune to get what you want. But before you...
Installing Stone Border Edging for a Garden & Patching Grass with a Lawn Repair Product
Now, it would have been lovely not to have disturbed the grass’s edge while installing this border. But of course that was not happening. I needed soil both behind and in front...
Learning How to Landscape :: Like Building But with Plants
Much like a wall in a home can provide partition, and in some cases, it can be bearing. It always includes such things as plumbing or electrical, and it is contained by...
Installing a Bathroom Faucet :: American Standard Outreach with Speed Connect
Moving forward with their basement remodel, I told them that this particular faucet was what is known as a centerset faucet. That is – the faucet is made for a top that...
Video: Installing Pet Screen in a Wood Screen Door :: Insects Out & Pets at Bay
Re-screening is actually a pretty easy diy procedure, and especially since the only tools you really need are a screen/spline tool (like the one pictured and not my hoopty one) and a...
Installing Checkerboard Flooring :: Get a Classic Floor with Vinyl Tile
This tile was thick at a solid 1/8” and rigid, much like what I know as Resilient Tile, but lacking much of its signature heavy-fill and graining. It was “dry backed” and...