Fixing the Kitchen

The kitchen troubles seemed insurmountable. I spent many hours in the kitchen, sitting and staring at all the problems, mentally…

the John Troubles

There’s street level prostitution in this area. On many nights, I can look out my bedroom window and see a…

I had this idea for a fence. It probably grew from my hatred of pressure treated lumber. I thought a…

That little room ate up so many hours. The ceiling and all the walls had new drywall. Fresh primer and…

This was the worst room in the house. I think it had originally been a pantry. Kitchens in the late…

The kitchen was such a mess. The walls and ceilings had bad, cracked AND lumpy plaster, there was trim missing…

The worst thing the previous owner did was to hack up the door mouldings in the kitchen. I don’t know…

My semi-feral cat, Marm, moved outside in late spring of 2017. Marm was affectionate with me on her terms. I…

I optimistically planned to get the house painted the first summer. This was complicated by my lack of scaffolding. I…

One thing that was really good about the house was that there were already storm windows installed over the original…