Exterior stained and just about done…
Seeing as I hate painting with the fire of at least a few suns, I would have thought that staining would be an equally unfavourable task. It was actually quite a lot of fun and I went about applying it...
View ArticleThe house of my dreams…
Recently I’ve been dreaming about my house. Not the kind of fairyland dreams I might prefer, but dreaming nonetheless. I tend to be working on things like wall paneling, and it can seem as mundane as...
View ArticleAlmost a ceiling…
Putting insulation and wall paneling up on the ceiling has taken a really long time. I’d wanted to wait and write about it when it was all done, but it’s been longer than I deem reasonable so you’ll...
View ArticleA ceiling, door trim and a found porch post…
My ceiling is done! I feel like shouting it, and perhaps I will. My neighbors get that I’m weird. Seriously though, it’s such a thing to look at. The last pieces went up without much of a hitch, and...
View ArticleOf shelving and pine floors…
These last few weeks have been a bit mad, and progress has taken a back seat for a while to life and visiting family. Still, I have been working on and off on my storage/shelf/closet and am getting...
View ArticleWall paneling done…
Well it’s been an awfully long time since I’ve written! I hope not to be so long in the future I am back home and back to house building after a delightful time away, and my return has brought some new...
View ArticlePine flooring down…
Little Yellow has a floor! It’s haphazard with no particular order and 2 different kinds of nails from one half to the other (I ran out), but I don’t care. I love it and it’s the most beautiful floor...
View ArticleOf long awaited tung oil and many white paints…
I have heard really good things about finishing pine floors with tung oil, and last Tuesday I pranced to the hardware store in search. For those of you who think of a big, reeking pot of tongues (me)...
View ArticleA bathroom wall, white paint, table saws and an eclipse…
I’ve put up my bathroom wall! The first partition! It’s actually the only partition in my floorplan, but that makes it even more exciting I used 1 x 5 tongue and groove pine screwed into horizontal...
View ArticleWhite walls, a window seat and some bad yellow paint…
It turns out I love spaces with white walls. Of course in saying that, I recall some sort of rhyme they used to say in school about white walled rooms and crazy folk…so to be clear, this love is for...
View ArticleA Danish master carpenter…
I’ve made some wonderful progress around the house this last week which I will go into soon in another post, but the following story is more important right now. Last Saturday, my dad and I went to...
View ArticleOf corner shelves and window trim…
For some reason, I’ve started calling the back/changing room adjacent to the bathroom ‘the pink room’. It’s not pink, nor shall it be as I’m not particularly wild over large amounts of the colour, but...
View ArticleFabric bought…
I guess this will be a bit of a girly post, so those who are already suspicious of the title might want to flee before you get too far in…but oh my god fabric!!!! Don’t worry, I’ll make it short. On...
View ArticleCabinets framed…
Perhaps nothing has caused more procrastination than my kitchen cabinets, and considering just how much procrastination I am capable of, this is really saying something. For a while my dad thought it’d...
View ArticleCurtains up…
And the window seat bench has been stuffed and upholstered! My wonderful sister came up with her wonderful sewing machine and slaved wonderfully away for hours on end, several days in a row to get them...
View ArticleOf futons and good small companies…
Today, I ordered my futon! It recently occurred to me that I had best get something comfortable to sleep on if I am going to be living in Little Yellow, so I began to do some research on bedding...
View ArticleSink holes and light fixtures…
Gathering the nerve to cut into Flemming’s irreplaceable counter tops took a lot of thought. A lot of thought, a lot of measuring, and a lot of ‘you can do this’ talks with myself. But all went well,...
View ArticleA fellow tiny house down…
Though I do not know them personally, Kim and Jenn are two gals who have been building their own tiny house about as long as I have. They put beautiful work into this house, and it looked to be very...
View ArticleOf plumbing and leaks…
That’s right, leaks. The other day I went to test the water; connect the hose to the house, turn the bugger on, and wait for the terribly exciting sound of rushing water through the walls. Terribly...
View ArticleThe futon from heaven and the ladder that leads to it…
So the wool and cotton futon I ordered a little while back (from Small Wonders) is WONDERFUL. I was so excited when it came, that I couldn’t wait for help and hauled the thing down the driveway,...
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