Adventures in Home Building

This is the result of 2.5 days of work - one stinking column! I had a friend show me how to do this for the first half day. It then took a f...

With family coming into town this weekend, we have been really busy wrapping up some of the bigger undone items. We are still far from done,...

Not much going on in the bonus room for now, but the two bedrooms and upstairs baths prove we ain't afraid of color!

When you pass from the small (intimate?) foyer and office area, you pass through a short hall that gives access to the half-bath or the mast...

We moved in about 2 weeks ago with an OK from the inpector. We'll call him back in May when the front porch and back deck are done. Ther...

Here is a recent exterior picture. It's nice to have the grading done (and even better when the ground stays frozen so the dogs don'...

It was a busy weekend. The wood nailers were already installed, but on Friday I finished up the wiring and, at the end of the day, we had m...

Coming through the foyer "airlock" door, there are three directions to go. Straight leads into the GreatRoom Right leads into the ...

The front door does not open into the center of the foyer, it is offset to one side. This first picture is what you'd see when coming t...

The "doorway" in the lower left is the pantry mentioned in the last post. You can see the support post from before, too. The do...

(I need to figure out if there is a cleaner way to do thes layouts. This may be hard to follow. I've done some searching on adding capt...

These are necessary for us to get the slope of the final grade as we desire. Stacking up these blocks is not that hard (granted, someone who...