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• Archives

  • [+] 2009
    • [+] August 2009
    • Chickens in O-Town
    • [+] January 2009
    • Picture Rails
  • [+] 2008
    • [+] November 2008
    • Ok so the driveway
    • Sad, But Not Defeated
    • [+] August 2008
    • House Blogs: Making Friends (and Quilts) Since 2004ish
    • [+] July 2008
    • [+] May 2008
    • Light Switch UI
    • [+] April 2008
    • Sprummer?!
    • Seriously.
    • [+] March 2008
    • We don't have children because the tomatoes would get jealous.
    • Sod: From the Latin "Sodus" which basically translates as "to give up."*
    • A Love Letter to Our Garbage Men...
    • [+] February 2008
    • Pre-Spring Chores Begin
    • Temporary Fix to Preserve Beth's Sanity
    • [+] January 2008
    • When Hatred Drives You To Start Small
    • The storms are clearing
    • Still no progress
    • How to Get Tons Done in the First Week of the New Year
  • [+] 2007
    • [+] December 2007
    • Merry Christmas from the Casa
    • [+] November 2007
    • My dad was wrong. That's the important part of today's post.
    • Retaining wall spa treatment
    • More on Steampunk if You're interested
    • [+] October 2007
    • Shrunken head and Snake 'O Lanterns
    • Steampunk for Greg (and the rest of you Victorian folks)
    • Front Porch Phase II - tile baby!
    • In which I bang my head against a wall repeatedly.
    • [+] September 2007
    • Is that snow?!
    • [+] August 2007
    • Resto = cool; Maintenance = sucky!
    • Aura Paint, a review
    • So happy you just wanna giggle
    • Newly Upholstered Chairs
    • [+] July 2007
    • Vacation! and No Spoilers.
    • Hot time at the hoedown
    • [+] June 2007
    • Thwarted by fake tennis
    • The Nemesis
    • [+] May 2007
    • ...they eat your guts and they spit them out.
    • Well, here's an update...
    • My brush hand is all crampy.
    • [+] April 2007
    • Ta Da! The bathroom...photos and long post approaching
    • Unexpected side effect of bathroom work
    • P.E.V.
    • Where I stand
    • Bathroom teaser
    • Creeping Mess
    • Something Fun
    • Cadet? Try Colonel.
    • Possibly the jankiest thing yet
    • !@&%#! Toilet
    • Sweeet Concrete Time, Ba Ba Baaaah
    • [+] March 2007
    • Stucco Details
    • Face-lift Part 2: Stucco Walls
    • Three Years in Review
    • Shh. Don't let it hear you.
    • This can't be good.
    • Update: Some good things ARE free
    • Monobrow
    • Lunch when working from home
    • Projects Moving Slowly
    • Digital thermostat!
    • Stucco-plasti
    • [+] February 2007
    • Satisfaction
    • When Beth's out of town...
    • Sidetracked by Bargains
    • Just so excited for the new "This Old House" project
    • Awesomeness--or why house restorers should own $1000 trucks
    • You plant your food in WHAT?
    • [+] January 2007
    • Getting Caught Up
    • Cat Burglar Characteristics
    • Doors. Check.
    • Completely un-house-related "lava is badass" post
    • House Un-Christmased and Ready for Action
  • [+] 2006
    • [+] December 2006
    • The Compact - Added to the list of feats I really admire but am too lazy to execute
    • Stuff you already know about saltillo but REALLY NEED to know about saltillo
    • Tagged with spray paint = good!
    • The end is near!
    • This Just In
    • Up there! In the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane!
    • The (s)crap is gone!
    • "Do not grout if there is any chance of rain."
    • Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our sunny weather
    • Termite Control?! It’s perfect! How did you KNOW?
    • Tiling on borrowed time
    • [+] November 2006
    • Holiday lighting extravagannnnzaa!
    • In the gutter
    • Mind-numbing home improvement
    • [+] October 2006
    • Tiled and straightened front steps
    • Halloween Graveyard
    • [+] September 2006
    • A warm glow is cast...
    • Unnnnnngghghhhhh
    • Door update: here's a photo
    • The Door, not to be confused with The Doors. For one, we don't have Jim Morrison.
    • Talavera tile is on its way
    • Only minor accomplishments
    • Quick! Before the site goes down again!
    • Beauty and the Beastie
    • [+] August 2006
    • You've all probably read this joke already
    • Completely unrelated yet thrilling news
    • Stripping is in the air apparently
    • Hail to Habib, he's the one we all say hail to
    • Stair preview: the first step
    • Beth vs. Insinkerator the Second OR Why the Internet Rules
    • The great front step extravaganza begins
    • Bizarro World in Oakland
    • WHY?!!!?!!
    • Deserty jungley goodness...right here at home
    • I'm proud as a mamma with an ugly baby!
    • Comments for the bathtub
    • Shiny happy peeoople...I mean baathtubs
    • Big freakin Check. Mark.
    • The Terror of Minor Plumbing
    • Let me tell you about this weekend
    • [+] July 2006
    • The dog's not the only one who bathes in the yard
    • Now you see us, now you don't
    • Shameless Plug
    • Breakfast nook-a-rama
    • You know that part of Rapper's Delight
    • Miserable freakin' job
    • Green living room
    • So, yeah...
    • [+] June 2006
    • Delicious on the inside
    • Very Little
    • Grammar as art
    • Porch Phase I complete
    • The Family Handyman is just like the government
    • You Chicagoland people have all the luck
    • Pretty porch posts, on the hillside...
    • You know what takes longer than you think it will?
    • Less hateful burglar bars
    • What's with all the backyard stuff?
    • Massing on the front porch
    • [+] May 2006
    • Solution for freakin, ever-lovin splinters!!!
    • And I would carry five-hun-dred pounds, and I would carry five-hun-red more...
    • If there was any doubt that I'm a big ole dork...
    • Okay, Chicago People!
    • Momma, or trains, or trucks, or prison, or gettin' drunk
    • "Come here to me," it calls
    • Dog and Mower: Both love the yard
    • Deal of the (Mid)Century
    • New Blog layout, new URL
    • belt sander 1, forearm 0
    • Darth Vader Ice Sculpture
    • Not quite a thousand words
    • Fix my twisted buckled ways!
    • Not so picturesque
    • [+] April 2006
    • SPF one million
    • Michigan Modern
    • mud is mud...rain or shh...wait...rain or rain
    • [+] March 2006
    • Really, REALLY...dont.
    • Drool for the tool (or what to do with your time when the sky is falling)
    • Improvements pending
    • [+] February 2006
    • You. Are. My shiiinnning star....
    • One down! One to go (plus a bunch of other little pieces)
    • All the acidy goodness with none of the superheroey side effects
    • Stripping on the Pole
    • Green Acres is the place to be, Ooooakland livin' is the life for me!
    • [+] January 2006
    • And so it begins...again
  • [+] 2005
    • [+] December 2005
    • No reno beyond dragging the outside in
    • Frah-JEE-LAY - The House on Cleveland Street
    • [+] November 2005
    • Arrival of...THE REALTOR
    • Plumber: Canceled
    • [+] October 2005
    • Sick of it!!!
    • Murphy's Law
    • It's just not scary enough
    • Ah hahahahahaha, someone is in looooovve with Lisa LaPorta
    • The last of the front windows
    • This is how you freak out your neighbors
    • What the hell is that thing?!
    • [+] September 2005
    • Photos of some trim
    • Wait, is that my house?
    • It's like new, but OLD! But not crappy.
    • Second coat
    • I know, I know...where have we been?
    • [+] August 2005
    • Let there be light...
    • ...and then there's crazy
    • Windows
    • Small Spaces
    • Good news and bad news...wait...bad news and weird news...wait...weird news and...
    • The garden, it grows
    • [+] July 2005
    • Spudapalooza
    • Ropes? Pulleys?
    • Huh.
    • This is just stupid.
    • Weekend Schedule
    • Early bronze age
    • Is it beautiful just because it's finished?
    • Bad Form!
    • [+] June 2005
    • eBay Anonymous
    • House Proud!
    • 120 Squats
    • tiny purple potatoes
    • Ich Bin Oklander
    • Crap wiring, your days are numbered
    • [+] May 2005
    • Window Rot - Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the heat gun...
    • Strawberries and Pigeons
    • Lies and Betrayal
    • Further adventures in homeowning
    • [+] April 2005
    • Remember how I hate oil-based stain?
    • Beth vs. the Insinkerator
    • Turns out shoes are heavy
    • Sad, sad lawn
    • Just Like Your Mom Day
    • So romantical...
    • [+] March 2005
    • Rosemary Irene
    • Clean wood for Nathan
    • Extreme backyard makeover: pergola
    • Cool black and purple iris
    • This Face
    • Old-lady-gay-man-palooza
    • Quarters
    • One of the best things to happen to the house...
    • Nothing photo-worthy
    • All this garden talk
    • Cutest Tree Ever
    • [+] February 2005
    • Bless me, I can SEE!
    • How can white paint be so pretty?
    • Aloha
    • My fake water feature RULES!
    • Valentine's day means no workin'
    • Die, old kitchen light!
    • stained door
    • The door hardware I want to run away with
    • I never want to see mulch again
    • Front door is in!
    • [+] January 2005
    • Why we did no house work
    • Deja Vu?
    • So you've seen the size of our yard right?
    • What comes after rock?
    • Rock
    • Non-house-related
    • Evil robocop delivered our rocks
    • Road trip bounty
    • No little house in this prairie
    • When does this ever happen?
    • The New Year
  • [+] 2004
    • [+] December 2004
    • Increase the cuteness factor...
    • We've clearly been good girls...
    • Pottery from the middle
    • Roofly Bliss
    • Beauty to camouflage the ugly
    • Crap Chores
    • Can you believe this?!
    • Christmas Swanky Style
    • Time for Fun
    • Fear Banished!
    • Lights, Tent, Circus!
    • Sunlight? Darkness? Have it all with new, improved CURTAINS!
    • Hmmm, I think I miss the siding
    • Whoos a whujie whujie dawwwwg
    • The cat sleeps on my face.
    • [+] November 2004
    • Can of mail no more!
    • Oh what a thing to dooooo...
    • Fall and My Stucco
    • Come here to me, cute fabric
    • Pretty, pretty nummmmbers
    • Rug with conehead
    • No Materials
    • Back to the House
    • Recovery
    • Stick to the Edges (but watch out for Oregon)
    • [+] October 2004
    • The Boy as Halloween Centerpiece
    • The Perfect Coffee Table, or why we are not like my sister and brother-in-law...
    • Construction fo' real
    • Shine on, shine on harvest porch liiiighhht...
    • Houston, We Have Stucco
    • Happy Anniversary Baaaybee, Got You on My Miiiiiiind
    • Not Hot
    • I'm a little worried
    • The House Melted
    • Vote!
    • In Other Awesome News
    • Janky Phone Wiring Annoys Us Further
    • Can One Be in Love with a Magazine?
    • [+] September 2004
    • If it didnt rain so much, I'd move to Seattle
    • Nothing New on the House
    • New Name
    • Knock knock
    • Land of Fruits...
    • Crap Work
    • A Tiny View of Early Landscaping
    • Hot Tomatoes
    • It's a freaking mailbox...not high art!
    • OGs of Renovation
    • Dixie with Shrek
    • Tear Off Complete
    • I've Seen the Light
    • [+] August 2004
    • The House
    • Day 1

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