Sometimes home improvement is really cheap.  To wit: I finally got around to shimming the bathroom door.  It was really hard to get the lo...

When I moved into my house there was this huge custom stainless steel plate around the floor register in the kitchen.  I didn't think lo...

My kitchen cabinets have seen better days.  The drawers are especially beaten up, lacking any sort of track system to keep them from wearing...

A few times back I lived in a house with a wood stove and it was, to be a tiny bit hyperbolic, the best thing ever.  Because my house was a ...

I planted pansies back in the beginning of march, when the tulips emerged.  Pansies like the cold and I thought they wouldn't last very ...

Did your mom ever give you a haircut when you were little, and maybe it wasn't perfect?  Did you maybe give her grief about this for yea...

So remember all that dirt that sat in my front yard and how I just dumped it in the backyard, for lack of a better option?  I decided to se...