Bicycle Work Stand for $10 in 5 Minutes

This is pretty cool. It's obviously not as sexy as a nice Park Tool professional work stand, but pretty cool and pretty cheap.

Bicycle Work Stand for $10 in [...]

Consolidating Our Den

So recently, with the pinball machine vacating the premises (*sniff*), we've been working on decluttering the office, partially by getting rid of some stuff, but also just setting up the room with more stuff that makes more sense for the space. I love the space of the cheap-fiber board L-shaped desk, but with the windows around [...]

Uses for WD-40

This weekend, Amanda and I got a email forward about the myriad uses for WD-40. It is a very useful compound, though WD-40's manufacturers whittled down the email forward's list of recommended uses a bit:

Uses [...]

Where did the weekend go?

Seriously, where did the weekend go? Oh wait, it was another one of those weekends spent busting our butts around the house. All of yesterday and this morning was spent installing the nursery wainscoting – utilizing three different saws (miter, jigsaw and circular). We took a little bit of couch time, but then it was [...]

Wainscoting Panels Up. More Work Tomorrow

So this is definitely turning into a full weekend project. Starting last night, we got the supplies to install wainscoting in the baby's room, including the panels, but also a compressor and a brad nailer. We didn't actually do any work on it last night – just got the supplies needed to start first thing this [...]

24 Rooms Tucked Into One

With our recent initiation of moving the office into what was the game room, we were striving to declutter, maximize space and utility. But man, our efforts have nothing on Gary Chang, a Hong Kong architect who has setup his very tiny living area into a very customizable and variable space. It's so cool, innovative and [...]

Game Room Starts Its Morph to Office

So Amanda and I tackled the arduous task of moving my den into the game room after she did some cleaning up in the office first thing this morning. The moving of my L-shaped desk and all the computer components went super smoothly, and I was able to consolidate my stuff into fewer outlets, etc.

That being [...]

18 Things a New Homeowner Should Do Immediately to Save Money

As the economy continues to plummet into the shitter, everyone seems to be looking for ways to trim from their budgets. Some restaurants have seen a 50% decrease in customer traffic. Eating out is an obvious place to trim expenditures. But another place hits closer to home – literally. The article below has some great tips [...]

Productive, But Blurred Weekend

Amanda and I tackled a fairly big home improvement project this weekend – installing a tumbled marble backsplash across our kitchen and over the course of about 8 hours yesterday and into this morning (past 1am), we got it all installed.

I'm really impressed and satisfied with its look, our workmanship and the wonderful aesthetics it's [...]

Lawn Update

I'd been anxious to do today's tasks for quite awhile – every time I mowed the lawn and saw the patchy spots, every time I battle with the weeds in the front and back yards and every time I looked down on the backyard from our second floor.

Well today, as the official last day of [...]