A common theme among our friends who build their own houses (or gut remuddle them in our case) is this magical point of good enough. Diehards and perfectionists excepted, many of us get to the stage where our house is functional and

Well, this has been two years in the making (minus a six-month break for our sophomore cruise), but it’s finally here. Our long-awaited bathroom. But first, a trip down memory lane… As I was gathering these photos, I really saw

It’s been a while since I posted about our remuddling efforts. I’m working on a our new bathroom reveal, but in the meantime I’m taking a step back to record our thoughts on the bigger picture. When Tig and I

It’s been a while since I’ve done a remuddling update. The short version is that Tig finished the floors in the living room and future breakfast nook. They were the same wide planks that were in the kitchen. Since then,

This is Part Four of our remuddling updates. You can catch up on Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 in previous posts. Somewhere in mid-November, Tig got heat up and running. Before then, we were using electric heaters to

Just a quick update on the remuddling front: we have drywall! They were installed by Wayne and his guy in one day. Tig did the bathroom walls and part of the ceiling with cement-board and blue-board. After experiencing our third

This is part three of our remuddling updates. You can see Part One and Part Two. Now that we’re all caught up, I expect updates will slow down. Insulation! The day finally arrived. A couple days before, Tig and I

Part two of our remuddling updates. For Part one, go here. After a lengthy deconstruction phase, we were excited to get to the building phase. But first, a new subfloor needed to go into the new bathroom. Tig took the

It’s been a while since I wrote about the purple palace other than a few teasers and a chimney update. I’ve been putting off this post because it seemed I would need to go way back and explain so much

Here is something I can write about our home renovations: stainless steel chimney caps. I think they are rather pretty, don’t you? During the summer, I noticed a rather loud twittering coming from our living room chimney at dusk. Later,