I was originally thinking about skipping all the posts on our dining room wainscoting until we were completely finished with it. Staged and all.  However, it may be another week until it’s all buttoned back up, so I think I’ll just get on with it and show everyone where we’re at. The last couple weeks […]

So on Monday we shared our experience mounting a flat screen TV to a wall. Today, we’re going to show you how to hide the TV’s cables to get a totally sleek look. This is the second TV we’ve done this procedure to at Mike and Dana’s house and this version seemed to work better […]

We hope everyone is managing to stay cool during this little East Coast heat wave we’ve been having.  It was supposed to go up to 100 F yesterday!  I love the summer, but I’d rather be a little cool, than a little hot, ya know.  We have a blow-up pool we’ll be setting up for […]

I enjoy doing electrical work.  It’s usually fairly straight forward and doesn’t involve me getting very dirty.  Usually.  Sometimes I have to cut holes in the wall, like in our dining room.  Since we decided to add some raised panel wainscoting, we’re adding a new outlet behind this buffet.  The lamps we have on there […]

After a couple hours in the garage last night rewiring our garage door opener, I can safely say we’ve pretty much wrapped up the major work in there for the season.  Here’s how our checklist looks at this point… –  Have the garage spackled. –Paint – Epoxy the floor (postponed until APR/MAY) – Paint the […]

So I find myself on Sunday with a free day since I postponed painting the garage.  The next day is Halloween and Lisa and I will have about 50 kids ringing our doorbell for a few hours.  There’s just one problem though, our doorbell isn’t working!  It hasn’t been working for the past couple months.  […]

Well, Armageddon Week continues here on the east coast.  In addition to grabbing the standard Glenn Beck/Zombie Apocalypse approved fallout shelter supplies like water, batteries and toilet paper, we thought it may be a smart idea to install a whole house surge protector in case our electricity were to surge on and off as it’s […]

Now that the outlet has been installed on the side of the house and caulked, we can start our work on the breaker panel.  Before I started this portion of the job, I purchased a new 15 amp breaker from the box store.  A 15 amp is appropriate and necessary because the wire I used is […]

In this post, we are going to get close to finishing up the last few loose ends of our landscape lighting project.  To wrap up this job, we’ll install an outdoor outlet to the side of the house to provide power for our transformer.  Bye Bye extension cord. Very first thing: Pull a permit.  If your city or township will allow you to […]