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How to Make a Skylight Shade88

How to Make a Skylight Shade

Instructions for creating a custom, reasonably priced shade for a skylight. Includes needed supplies, step by step instructions with photographs.

16 comments    save money fabric shade
How to finish quilt binding85

How to finish quilt binding

Putting the binding on the quilt is the last thing you need to do. These instructions are for the very last part of putting the binding on. It results in a beautiful finished binding where no one will be able to tell where you started and where you finished. The great part is that it is easy.

12 comments    easy methods quilt
Facing Challenges70

Facing Challenges

We're trying to save this house from becoming part of the ecosystem. First it was carpenter ants and dry rot which is a funny concept because it is caused by water then a roof that wasn't really a roof and...

6 comments    architect roof energy star
Bathroom Renovation73

Bathroom Renovation

It sometimes feels like we have more ongoing house projects than the earth has blades of grass, although I do realize that is a complete exaggeration.  Another major project here in the House that Keeps on...

0 comments    shopping bathroom tools
Bathroom Renovation 371

Bathroom Renovation 3

During the time we were demolishing the old bathroom and opening the space into the old small walk-in closet we found time to select and order a new tub, cabinet and plumbing fixtures. We decided on the Kohler Archer tub and also the Archer brushed...

0 comments    save money plumbing insulation
Sun after Rain56

Sun after Rain

I'm looking out the window and seeing some blue sky between large moving gray clouds. It's rained hard here for the past 3 or 4 days (I've lost track) and the weeds have taken over the yard and the gardens. ...

0 comments    motivation timing beautiful yard
Family Emergency53

Family Emergency

I haven't published due to a family emergency.  My brother called on Friday May 8th to inform me that he was to have emergency by pass surgery on his heart.  It was quite a shock and I immediately went into...

1 comment    brother open heart surgery family emergency
Bathroom Renovation 262

Bathroom Renovation 2

Last time I left off at the end of the demolition.  So, the next part of the project was the electrical.  We had to move some electrical switches, remove, move and replace lighting and install a good ventilation fan. The plumber was coming soon...

0 comments    diy bathroom plumbing
Bits of Information56

Bits of Information

The architect is still working out all the details so I am not totally sure if these options will be available but I am getting some calls and e-mails returned. Hallellujah for that. As it turns out if the roof can have a 2/12 pitch which is a...

0 comments    metal architect roofing
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