Category: home improvement

  • "The Sky is Falling!"

    By seven o’clock, Monday morning, our house took on the role of an Artillery Bunker, as I slept soundly beneath my fluffy down covers. It was Re-roofing Day One at the Hudson’s dwelling. These guys didn’t waste any time at all. Punctual and serious about the job. Looking out the window, I feel like Bugs…

  • From "blah" to "brown"…

    After staring at these walls in our upstairs hallway for the past 9 months, we finally cracked. ENOUGH!“Goodbye, white! Hello, Harvest Brown!” This is how I spent the better part of my weekend.Stuffed in a confined space with poor lighting, 9 foot ceilings and no ladder. By the end of the evening, I had a…

  • why I couldn’t feel my arms 6 weeks ago…

    it just occurred to me that I never posted about our long weekend project we tackled at the beginning of September. it went like this… Saturday we (a-hem, Jason) dug eleven of these… mixed 21 bags of this… Sunday morning, we put up these… then this… by mid morning… Sunday afternoon… aaaaaaaand DONE!!! now, where…

  • kitchen redux…

    you may recall my previous post regarding my utter distain with the lack of storage in my kitchen. I bought a wrought iron storage rack unit and that did help. but alas, as I looked into my sunroom, there were at least another 4 boxes left of all my baking supplies. (so, I like to…