Burning Thanksgiving calories by building a new garden bed
And we’re back with a bang! Yes, we’ve been away since October, but our sweet baby girl (oh, and life in general) …
Pantry version 2.5
Our new (2010) kitchen pantry, while a drastic improvement over what we had before we remodeled the kitchen, still left something to …
A surprising discovery for the backyard raised beds
We’ve been planning on raised beds all along in the backyard running along almost the entire length of the northern fence. This …
So the delivery guys will actually know what the number is on our house
A staple of DC rowhomes (as well as most rowhomes from the same period elsewhere) is the tradition of hand-painted house numbers …
Finishing up the backyard retaining wall
After one week, the backyard retaining wall is done. Even as I wrote that just now, I was so dubious that it …
Planning out the rest of the backyard
While the retaining wall is almost finished, we’ve been going back and forth on the master plan for the rest of the …
Turning an overgrown nightmare of a backyard into something better
The amount of work that is needed in the backyard to be able to start our herb and vegetable garden is just …
When it’s all over it just begins again: the master bedroom
We always joke that each room renovation in the last 22 months has been done a little better than the last. Which …
On the hunt for antique window trim and making it up as I go along
After a week away, we’re back online here at the Old Rowhouse. After the week of Steve came to a frenzied close, …
Week of Steve has the opposite problem now
I just said we’d had time to write but no time to do any projects in the last few weeks with the …