There’s nothing like a few loose ends getting tied up to spruce up the place and offer a little hope. A couple of those shifts brought us some new experts to add to our…

We were in the garage (actually, the potential/future garage) that for the past several months has been the repository for all items exiting the main house that needed to be saved. Or so we…

Yeah. You heard me. There’s no other way to say it. Joel, in his frenzy of drywall-dust vacuuming, sucked up St. Joe with the shop vac. He knew it. Joe put up a good…

I just spent a wonderfully relaxing week with my daughter, Alexandra, in Boulder, Colorado. It was a wonderful respite from the house renovation and a perfect mother-daughter connecting time. Believe it or not, things…

On June 29th, Fort Wayne experienced what I now know to be called a derecho – high winds that travel a long distance. Ours were 91 miles per hour and went all the way…

There have been a few stages of insulating this drafty old place to ensure that our pipes don’t freeze, our heating bills don’t preclude our ability to eat, and our risk of fire traveling…

Having been given the inspectors’ green lights to march on, drywall became the next order of business. I’m not going to lie. This was a little sad for me. I had gotten quite attached…

We passed!!! All four of our wonderful contracting groups did their jobs well and earned a gold star from the powers that be. This meant that we were granted permission to move onward and…

You’ve all seen the sketchbook that I created for the Art House Co-op’s annual program to be catalogued in the Brooklyn Art Library. If you missed that project, you can see it here. The…

Written by Joel Sauer When we purchased our “new” home earlier this year, it had sat empty for nearly five years.  Unfortunately one of the casualties of this vacancy was the hot-water radiator heaters. …