PSA: Free Quart of Glidden

Heads up: Glidden is giving away free quarts of paint (eggshell finish, your choice of about 200 colors) until July 2nd.  Take ‘em up on it,  yo.

Read Full Post »

Subprime Housing

GoogleReader also brought me this amusing Craigslist ad (emphasis added):
Looking for an experienced craftsman to build me cabinets for a home library. I have a 3 year old home so the workmanship must be excellent. Looking for someone to help me create a library, someone with great ideas. I’m trying to stay away from the [...]

Read Full Post »

Drainboard sink

As I’ve mentioned, Googlereader keeps an eye on Craigslist so I don’t have to.  One of the things its patrolling for is “vintage sink”, because something like this would be perfect.  Perfect, that is, if (1) it wasn’t much, much too big and (2) Missy liked it.  But other than those two hurdles, perfect.

For what [...]

Read Full Post »

A poll: please stay seated

Wooden benches inside the house: yes/no?  Open-ended follow-up: where?

Read Full Post »

Finally

It’s about time that I get some help with house projects around here.  I’ll show you how to use the heat gun next, kiddo.

Read Full Post »

Back

I’ve been in Vermont for a week, learning about teaching about war from some of the best military-academic folks in the country.  This weekend is commencement, and then, officially, summer work begins.  I hate the assumption that college teachers get summers off (publication pressure makes sure that’s nowhere near the case), but not teaching does [...]

Read Full Post »

Maine Cottage

You know what?  It turns out we can’t afford a $2,000 coffee table from Maine Cottage.    Bummer.

So I cut the legs off a $10 table from Re-Store, sanded the varnish off the top, painted it robin’s egg blue, and bob’s-your-uncle, there you go.

Then I helped the baby take pictures of a cat.

Read Full Post »

Duvet

Missy is awesome: Exhibit 12C

We have white sheets too, and our bed is so summery now.  Thanks, punkin’!

Read Full Post »