Emergency Toilet/Floor Repair: Not for those with Delicate Sensibilities!
What happens when you have only one toilet in your house, and said toilet malfunctions...at Christm…
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The Most Wonderful Time of the Year Christmas is my favorite time of year! I always feel like a li…
From Scrap Lumber to Shabby Chic Phone Stand
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Painted Furniture Made at 173 Sometimes the perfect piece of furniture isn't hiding in a …
The Houses of My Life!
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Ramblings The Houses That Made Me Love House 173 Long before House 173, two simple homes quietly ta…
New Windows and a Door for the Front Porch
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A Bittersweet Change to 173 Before we bought 173, the front porch looked like this:
Fall Plantings!
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A Couple Trees for the Devil's Strip A trip for slippers somehow ends with a Kwanzan cherry and…
Design Ideas - Just Killing Time
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Hotel living for another week. I don't mind it - love my job, but there's always project a…
DIY Scrap Wood Umbrella Stand: A $0 Porch Project
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A Legacy 173 Scrap Wood Project Sometimes the projects you build while waiting become y…
Waiting For Irene
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Flashlights, storm windows, a cleared yard and one nervous homeowner waiting to see what Hurricane …
Hanging a Valance
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I Always Break Into the Liberty Valance Song A good friend of mine made this super valance for the …
Kitchen Help Wanted!
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For 14 long years we've suffered with one of the most outdated kitchens left in America. No, r…
Legacy Project: Building a Garden Bench from Leftover Lumber
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Legacy Project Made at 173 One nursery visit, a tape measure, and a pile of leftover lumber became …
Even More Door Stuff AND I Made the Reading List!
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It's incredible to me how many little things go in to simply changing the color of the back doo…
Punch List - Back Door Hardware
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Snow day! No, it didn't snow in August (although it wouldn't surprise all the "Global…
The Back Door - The (next to) Last!
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It really seems insane that the transformation of a back door would require this many posts. I tho…
The Back Door - Part Two
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Finally the humidity has let up and, luckily, I had the day off today! So I took the back door out…
Provenance Pics!
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Heat + humidity + me = not a whole heckuvalotta work getting done. In the humidity I worry about t…
A Sneak Peek!
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I'm not going to divulge all right now, although looking at the pictures it's probably goin…
Turning a Plain Stool into Vintage Bathroom Decor
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Painted Furniture Holy Heat Batman One unbearably hot afternoon, some leftover paint, and a plain …
The Back Door - Part 1
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Just when you thought you'd heard the last of the back porch - mwahhhahahaa! Seems like I'…
OK, I'm Obsessed - One Final Look
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I just saw this first picture today and thought it was a good "Before and After" opportun…
Replacing Our Chain-Link Fence: A Backyard Transformation
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Retro Project Away with the Chain Link Fence One of the earliest projects that gave House 173's…
A Day of Odds-N-Ends
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Ramblings A Little Backyard Maintenance Sometimes the most satisfying days of homeownership are spe…
Getting Rid Of An Old Pile Of Concrete
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A summer or two ago I rented a jackhammer and broke up the old sidewalk that ran across the back y…
Made at 173: The Untimely-But-Fun $5 Potting Bench (Part 2)
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I got home from work today and ran right outside to get the potting bench finished. In case you…
$5 Potting Bench
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I Really Didn't Need To Do This Right Now It wasn't on the summer project list, but a pile…
Shingling the Back Porch Part 2
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After shingling the back wall of the back porch, I finally got around to doing the side wall. In t…
Shingling the Back Porch
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So I Thought - Why Not? One ugly wall, some inexpensive cedar shingles and a simple idea that would…
Building a Semi-Wattled Garden Fence
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Using Apple and Birch Branches Using salvaged apple and birch branches, this quick weekend project …
Legacy Project: Remodeling the Back Porch at House 173
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A Complete Overhaul One of the first major renovations that transformed House 173 from an old hous…
Legacy Project: Third Floor Renovation 1998
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A Look Back at a Pre-Blog Project Okay, so in the beginning I don't think there were blogs …