From the Doll House to the Dog House

A no-debt rehabilitation of an early twentieth-century home, using as many low-consumption tactics and recycled/re-purposed materials as can be gotten away with.

Sunday, November 29, 2015

Confession is good for the soul!

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I confess.....it ain't warming up before April. I bow to the inevitable, and put the storm windows up today. Also decided since I am goi...
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Thursday, November 26, 2015

Back from the dead!

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A little progress here, mostly just trying to keep my head above water, I'll start posting some of the little things just so it looks li...
Saturday, April 19, 2014

Colonnades!

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 The WINTER THAT WILL NOT DIE is passing at last! Time to do more work on the house! There were colonnades between the two front rooms...
Thursday, October 17, 2013

Plaster dust in the morning

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Taking plaster from the kitchen walls. No pictures because the grit will wreck my camera. I wish I could post the smell so everyone could sh...
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Friday, October 11, 2013

Up and away!

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Got the jack under the devil under my kitchen. The timber sank a little more than a quarter inch into the devil before it began to raise the...
Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Kitchen or else!

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One of the biggest stumbling blocks for the kitchen projects was a chimney that was right in the way. It came out about five feet in the a...
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Monday, April 15, 2013

And the Fat Man lived through most of the winter.....

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.....if winter ever ends I could say there was another one behind me. No outside progress. None; I hate the cold and dank weather so I hiber...
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