Greengate Ranch Remodel
Saturday, September 26, 2009

New Home Theater Furniture

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They delivered the furniture for our home theater today. We bought a very large sectional and ottoman, plus two recliners. These, plus the e...
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Monday, September 14, 2009

My new blog: Hammer and Saw

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I recently started another blog: Hammer and Saw , focused on woodworking and furniture. Up to this point, I have kept my furniture projects ...
Sunday, September 13, 2009

Tip: Use contrasting filler on painted trim

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Until recently, I always filled the nail holes in trim with filler that was close to the paint color (in our case, white). No matter how sys...
Saturday, September 12, 2009

Built-in Bookshelf for my Son's Room

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The final thing we are adding to our son's room is a two-foot wide built in bookshelf, where his old closet used to be. It's 10...

Building a Windowseat #3 - Cabinetry Complete

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I finished up the cabinetry portion of the window seat project. As shown in the picture, I installed the top, which has a lift up lid. I als...
Sunday, August 30, 2009

Finishing up My Son's Walk-in Closet

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My son and I installed the closet organizer we built last week. The diagram below shows the layout... As I stated in an earlier post, this i...
Saturday, August 29, 2009

Building a Window Seat #2

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In the following set of pictures, I show how I installed the window seat cabinet I built earlier... Here is the bump-out we added for the wi...
Saturday, August 22, 2009

Building a Window Seat #1

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While I have been working on my son's room, I also got the widow seat area ready to go. I am working on building the seat cabinet as wel...

Small Walk-in Closet for my Son's Room

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We completed the sheetrock, texturing and painting in my son's room today. As part of the remodel work we are doing, we converted part o...
Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Installing Carpet Tiles #3 - Done

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My DW finished installing all the carpet tiles in the main areas of our basement - about 1400 sq. ft. in all. In summary, we are really happ...
Thursday, August 06, 2009

A Good Resource for Understanding Stimulus Money for Remodeling

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I found a very comprehensive site for understanding how I can take advantage of the stimulus / tax rebate offers in 2009: Remodeling Magazin...
Saturday, August 01, 2009

Sherwood, Oregon Named a Top-10 City in America for Families

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I am an unwavering fan of Oregon. I know that I am biased, having always lived here, but we really do have just about everything: forest, oc...
Sunday, July 26, 2009

Installing Carpet Tiles #2

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We installed another 500 sq ft of the carpet tiles this afternoon. Here are a few pictures showing the results... You can still see the seam...
Saturday, July 25, 2009

Installing Carpet Tiles #1

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As part of our basement remodel, we have been planning on putting in new carpet for quite a while. At about 1800 sq. ft. of carpet, it is no...

Back from Nicaragua

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My daughter and I spent a couple of weeks on a mission trip with our church to Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua. We had the chance to help build so...
Friday, July 03, 2009

New stone fireplace hearth

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As long as I have been laying stone in the back yard, I decided to go ahead and add a raised hearth to our upstairs fireplace. When we origi...
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Saturday, June 27, 2009

Backyard #10 - Adirondack Chairs & Creek

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This post isn't on anything specific - I just took a break from yard work to take some pictures. I built a couple of adirondack chairs a...
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