Our tub alcove in the main bathroom of the house was in need of some help. The faucet was old, leaking and ugly. The header made the rest of the room feel dark. The sheetrock had water damage from the leaks. The tile on the deck was uneven and there was a lack of storage. …
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When we first built our house, we used pvc porch column wrapping from a box store that were undersized for the space and had awkwardly proportioned top and bottom trim. The column wraps were not the worst but they always felt too skinny and gangly, like a bunch of gawky teenagers holding up our porch …
I needed a space saving home office solution so here’s how I built my folding wall desk. This is nearly the last project in my basement multi-purpose room renovation.
I grew up only knowing pumpkin chiffon pie. My mother always hosted Thanksgiving dinner at our house, making at least this pumpkin chiffon pie recipe and a handful of others. Because pumpkin pie is almost exclusively a Thanksgiving thing I literally never had a ‘normal’ pumpkin pie growing up. I thought pumpkin chiffon pie was …
I’m not much of a baker and pie crust, like most even moderately complex baking things, intimidates me. So when fall rolls around and the season demands a pumpkin chiffon pie, I take the easy way out and make an oil pie crust. The benefit of the oil pie crust is that it’s dead simple. …
Making a DIY chicken feeder that is low waste from a five-gallon bucket and pvc pipe takes five minutes and saves you so many poultry related headaches. We tried many different store bought and home made versions over the years but this one is a clear winner. There are plenty of five gallon bucket feeders …
Keeping chickens in Upstate NY in the winter is a struggle. Having a DIY heated chicken waterer makes it much easier.
When we started our garden adventure we knew we needed to make raised beds. After one or two versions, this is how we made our favorite version of a diy raised garden bed out of cedar. The soil everywhere on our property for hundreds of feet down is clay. Just planting in the ground is …
A woven wire fence is only as good as its ability to stand and that means learning to brace a fence corner. When I first put in the sheep pasture fence, I cemeted in my three posts for each H-brace and called it a day. Yeah, that’s wrong. Even though this isn’t a high tension …
Way back when we were first talking about getting sheep we had only a rough idea what what we needed it tooks quite a few revisions to land on a small barn layout. Not everyone will have access to all the software tools I used, so I wanted to share not only where we end …