Let’s finish this thing up! Part 3 and the final steps to your treeless treehouse.
Category: Yard and Outdoor DIY
How to Build a Treeless Treehouse Part 2- Walls, Trap Door, and Siding
Part 2 in the treeless treehouse series!
How To Never Put Up Christmas Lights Again (but still have Christmas Lights)
Putting up and taking down Christmas lights is the pits. It’s dangerous. It’s time consuming. It’s frustrating. It sucks the Christmas spirit out of you. But… I love Christmas lights. I love the look of them and (once they’re up) the Christmas spirit they do bring. Christmas is my favorite season of the year but …
We bought a junk camping trailer for $500!
We’ve never been into camping- we haven’t found tent camping with kids to be enjoyable at all, so we kind of figured we were just hotel people. We started to realize that the people who love camping are the those that have travel trailers and can bring the comforts of home with them. We’re always …
How to Build a Treeless Tree house – Part 1 – Footings and Deck
Once upon a time, we had small children who loved having picnics in the front yard, dressing up like frogs, and playing on a good ol’ swing set.
Building a Woodshop from Scratch – Electrical Wiring
If you’ve been following my other posts about this wood shop, you’ve seen the framing and then the siding, trim and roofing and broken rib come along over the last little while. By that point I only had two big projects left to do outside the shop: running electricity to the shop and building the …
Building a Woodshop – Sheathing, Roofing, Trim and a Broken Rib
Holy Schneikes! It’s been months since I blogged about the shop and it’s come a long way since my last post. Since finishing the framing, I’ve worked on the next steps, which are many: Wrapping the structure in OSB Roofing: Applying OSB Sheathing to the roof, then tar paper, drip edge and shingles Wrapping the structure …
My dreams have come true!
There are 12,000 reason why we love our house. We feel very lucky in many ways, considering we went into this whole purchase pretty blind and went off of a gut feeling that it was right. We truly had no clue what we were in for project-wise when we moved in. It’s been non-stop projects …
How to Fix Your Car’s A/C in 5 Minutes
It’s August. It’s been averaging 102 degrees Fahrenheit where I live. Not having some good air conditioning in your vehicle can be pretty rough. When my A/C stopped working on the left side of my car, I knew it was time to recharge it. Recharging your A/C is a really easy process and only takes …
Building a Wood Shop from Scratch – Framing Progress
When we were looking for a new house a few years back, we really hoped to find one with a good amount of space and a three car garage, so that we could park both cars in the garage and then have some room for me to do woodworking and my many projects. We ended …