This entire post is mostly to organize my thoughts, make something I can come back to, refresh my memory so I don’t forget — again. That book I got in college from a friend should’ve had a theme not of, “oh, the places you’ll go,” but “the places you’ll redo.”
Things left undone, by room.
Categories: exteriors, sledgehammer renovation
Tagged: bath, construction, electrical, garden, kitchen, landscape, living room, organization, workshop
Boy, that phrase has taken on a new meaning around here.
When we bought this house, we didn’t know until we were driving through West-by-god-Virginia that we were purchasing a house in the 100-yr flood zone. (Gee, thanks for the warning, assholes.) Given the type of loan, flood insurance would be mandatory — there goes about [...]
Categories: bureaucratis hell, exteriors
Tagged: garden, landscape, structural design
Turns out you can get it from a lot of things, and, if you’re me, you can get compound carpal tunnel — throughout wrists, fingers, up the arm and the elbow and some in the shoulders. Cripes. But I explained everything I’d managed to do in the course of screwing up muscles/joints so thoroughly, and [...]
Categories: sledgehammer renovation, things and more things
Tagged: carpentry, wild kingdom, workshop