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This week’s Before and After winner comes from a well know style and design resource on the web: Rhoda @ Southern Hospitality. Rhoda’s been an annual supporter of our Before and After series and always has an amazing DIY project to share....read more 
Posted 1 day 11 hours ago on One Project Closer
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I think this goes down in the record books as our first ever video reader redesign submission (though the transformation is just as fantastic in photo form). So if you haven’t already seen this time lapse of Susan’s couch upholstery makeover then you’ve just gotta check it out:...read more
Posted 2 days 6 hours ago on This Young House
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I suppose I should be thankful that the front doors are still there at all. All too often you see these original double doors removed and replaced with a modern single door and side lights. My doors have really been through a lot though, and it shows. In the picture above, one door and part of the other still need to be stripped of shellac....read more
Posted 2 days 21 hours ago on The Petch House
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I’m ashamed to say that I’ve never really cared for the typical Southern version of cheese grits. The grits are tasteless, the cheese is lumpy, and the eggs dry everything out. When you go to reheat the leftovers, you have to cut a cube out of the solid yellow mass and crush it down with the back of your spoon. That’s just not right....read more
Posted 4 days 11 hours ago on Chad Chandler's Blog
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That's all I'm saying - just keep the plants watered. Even the ones you don't like. Especially if they know you don't like them. Check out this story I found on Yahoo. Heck, I'll just copy the whole thing here:...read more
Posted 4 days 15 hours ago on The House on Red Hill
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This year marks the tenth that Jill and I have been working on our old house. When we took on our Queen Anne, it was a wrecked frat house — condemned property that had sat empty for nearly a year. Jill loved it at first sight. I said, “No way.” She was absolutely convinced that we could bring the house back from the brink. Never mind that we knew nothing about fixing a house....read more
Posted 5 days 17 hours ago on http://Houselove.org
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So, a sundial is pretty much useless, unless it is in the sun. I decided, since this was a scientific sundial, indeed a precision instrument, that it needed a precision base.
With left over materials from our last solar job, I fashioned a base using 8 inch sonotube, 3 inch PVC conduit and an 80 pound bag of ready mix....read more
Posted 1 week 41 min ago on Home Owner's Blog