An old house is never finished, right?
Here you will find articles and posts about home improvement projects, ideas, and advice about how to restore and renew your vintage home (or make repairs on a home of any age).
I can’t fix the world but I can fix this (hopefully)… Finally trying to tackle the remaining original wooden windows in our late 1880’s Chicago worker’s cottage, preferably before the last of the glazing falls out (or winter comes, or whichever comes…
When you have a *very* limited budget, a bucket of paint is one of the best tools in your toolkit. Let me show you a kitchen story of a complete transformation on an Oops! paint budget… it’s a kitchen paint makeover that…
Here are a couple progress shots of the paper bag floor with the brown builder’s paper layers glued down over the old, rough, gouged softwood floor. There are some spots that need regluing, especially at the corners and edges, but trim molding…
It’s Throwback Thursday… or Truth Be Told? Either way, it’s a beautiful day. Crisp, but the sky is a clear and cheerful robin’s egg instead of the bottom of a bucket of grey mopwater that we’ve been staring up into for days….
After debating whether and how to soffit this weird drop ceiling that was left exposed when I took down the wall and other even lower drop ceiling at the back of the master bedroom, we decided it should go. The plaster underneath…
But sometimes you have to take a break! Moving house, plus the critters, into yet another work-in-progress has been pretty overwhelming. Thank god this one’s closer to done in many ways than the past two projects… But here we are! And with…