The office is one area of the house we haven't spent much time on. We recently rearranged the room by placing the desk in the middle; I really love the open feel compared to the room when the desk was against the wall - it makes studying for 8 hours straight much more enjoyable.  We also... Continue Reading →

  The living room walls were pretty bare, aside from the pictures above the TV. The first decoration I found was a flower canvas painting at Target. The blue is a perfect complement to the neutral tone room. I also found some blue vases at goodwill for $1 each and decorative straw-colored exactly the same as the neutral... Continue Reading →

Yes, that is right - the highlight of our project is that we now have a dishwasher AND a vent over the stove. The previous set-up had a hole in the ceiling that made it look like there used to be a vent over the stove, but the microwave they left us didn't vent; I... Continue Reading →

After an eventful day of fixing the leaking sewer gas mess in the wall, we put up a new mold and mildew resistant sheet of drywall. We also laid down some subflooring to level the cabinet floor with the rest of the kitchen. This was finished around 7pm; we really, REALLY wanted to get the... Continue Reading →

After a long night of pretending I was the hulk and getting a few hours of sleep, we got back to work. We removed a 4'x 8' sheet of the drywall from behind the sink that contained the old pipe and some mold. We figured it would be easiest to just put a whole sheet... Continue Reading →

The night of my last exam of the semester we got started on the kitchen. We were having Christmas Eve dinner at our house in 3 days, so we had to get to work quickly. The first step was to remove the sink. The sink itself was nothing special and came out pretty quickly. The... Continue Reading →

  Mid-July we decided to spend a little time improving the Master Bedroom. From the original bedroom post you can see that the paint was a huge improvement, but the old-lady ceiling fan just wasn't cutting it. We are cheap, so we refused to replace a working fan. Thankfully, the something went wrong with the... Continue Reading →

Mid-October J and I decided it was time to remodel the kitchen. The guy who owned the place before thought he was handier than he actually was - there were holes in the walls, old pipes capped and sticking out of the walls, and homemade plywood cabinets.  I'm sure you can see from the pictures... Continue Reading →

Friday was J's birthday. After celebrating, Saturday we got busy preparing for our first ever cabinet installation. Neither of us had done this before and we were both very excited to see the results. Jason spent the past two weeks preparing the cabinets (sanding, staining, clear coat). This was supposed to be the easy installation... Continue Reading →

    This was by far the best 1 hour project we have done yet. I picked up a package of 1'x1' sticky tiles to improve the grandma-like entry way that we inherited. The entryway was one of those things that we just ignored. It was super ugly, but we got used to it and... Continue Reading →