This spring we finally got around to finishing up some outstanding house maintenance projects.  The big projects are more fun...

Next up in the 2nd bedroom were the closet doors.  Mace ordered the bi-folds months ago and they came in primed but still needed to be...

The weekend after we got the 2nd bedroom closet door jamb and trim installed some major visual changes were about to take place. First up...

After the drywall and priming phase it was time to finish off the closet with the door jamb and trim.  I got one coat on everything...

With the framing and drywall finished along with wall touch ups, it was time for me to get in there and start painting!  First color up…...

Now that the closet frame was up it was ready for drywall.  Here are a bunch of shots as the drywall was going up. A close up of the...

Here’s a peak at a current project we’re working on.  For the last month we’ve been working on putting a closet back into our 2nd bedroom...

Our master bathroom was in some serious need of attention and Mace had big plans to get it up to snuff before the wedding (which was 5...

13 weeks, 92 days, and countless hours of hard, labor intensive work and our deck was finally complete!!  So much time and energy went...

For extra support Mace added some bracing under the deck.  A small thing but you can never have too much stability on a large structure....

The same week the deck landing and skirt board were being done Mace was also doing some work inside the house so I could keep moving on...

Now that we had all the deck boards installed and the deck stairs mostly completed it was time to start on the railings!  Mace was...

Week 8 of deck building was a very exciting one because all the deck boards were down by the end of it!!  The planer was still getting a...

Mace and I were enjoying a glass (or two) of wine last night when Mace spilled some of it on the deck boards.  That lead to a...

After the structure was up we had a special delivery of our deck material.  What the deck was going to be made out of was a big topic of...

So while the guys were busy outside with the deck, I was tackling my own project inside.  Our hallway bathroom was in need of some...

Now that we had a solid foundation for the deck we could start building the structure.  With help on the way Mace started by taking off...

As I have mentioned before, one of the main reasons we ended up going with this house was because of the opportunity to put on a deck. ...

Nothing like having a plumbing issue when you’re in the middle of another renovation!!  That’s what happened to us during the...

While all the other finishing details were happening with the slider we also had to lay new flooring where we removed the baseboard...