So things have slowed down a little bit around here since we knocked dragged out our dining room wainscoting and gussied up our front door.  It’s going to pick up again soon though.  Plus, in the fall I’ll be taking another grad school course.  Before we know it, we’ll be busy like crazy.  We do […]

For a while there, I didn’t think I’d ever be writing this post.  Thankfully, this day has arrived and our kitchen cabinet pullout drawers have been successfully installed.  If you recall, I built these drawers over a series of five posts (here, here, here, here aaaaannd here).  In actuality, I think I spent maybe five […]

Hope everyone had a Happy Easter!!  Ours was filled with great family and great ham!  So great in fact, that we skipped our normal Monday post to sleep in!!  It was worth the wait though, because today we’re going to talk about concrete countertops. Thankfully, this post isn’t about another project that Lisa and I […]

So here’s my kitchen cabinet sliding drawers update: I think this project may become a saga.  If it takes me another five posts to finish this cabinet drawer situation I wouldn’t be surprised at this point!!  I’m trying not to get frustrated, but it happens.  What’s the snag?  Aren’t you basically done this?  Yes, well, […]

I would love to have a post today that showed off my finished sliding cabinet drawers installed, but unfortunately, my local hardware stores didn’t have the right drawers slide hardware in stock at the moment.  I’m going to grab some early this week when I go into the city, so I’ll have a wrap up […]

Well this project sure feels like it’s dragging on a bit!!  It really shouldn’t take this long to finish, but between work trips, booked up weekends and normal parent-life activities it’s hanging around a little longer than I’d like.  But that’s okay!  I would like to stress that if you have a free weekend, you […]

So our sliding drawer project is coming along slowly, but nicely.  We’ve measured and purchased our wood and we’ve cut it to its width and length.  Now comes the tricky part, we’re going to start making the joints and other cut features of the drawers.  This can be an intimidating part of the project, especially […]

Now that the weekend is over, it’s back to work on our sliding drawers!  I hope I’m not dragging this out too much for you.  Ideally, it would be nice to have one post that showed how to make a sliding drawer from start to finish, but I feel that there is a lot to […]

Since this is my first post on any real type of carpentry project, I thought I’d share some of the process I go through when I’m starting something like the kitchen sliding drawers.  If you’ve never done any type of wood working before, I hope you find this helpful. CLICK HERE FOR PARTS 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7. 1. Measuring […]

Notice anything new around here?  We finally got around to upgrading our header.  After I read this post from Michelle at Decor and the Dog, Lisa and I spent some time picking photos and messing with picnik.com.  I have to admit, our new header looks perhaps a bit too much like Michelle’s old one, but […]