D-I-Y Mushroom Factor, F-Y-I
The Little Project That Grew Every home remodeler and renovator runs into it at some time, the dreaded mushrooming of a simple project into the monster money pit. It is what you come to expect when working on an old house project. This is not about fungus- at least...
Leveling floors & ceilings in 120 year old farm house.
First…A little history. Back in 1985 my wife and I and our 5 children (at the time) purchased an old farm house out in the country that was built in stages beginning in 1894. We had lived in the city and felt it would be a good idea to move to the...
Old People And Old Houses
Removed the ceiling plaster firstYou would think they go together, old people and old houses, but we are finding that occasionally the two are in conflict. Handyman and I have started back on our eternal (it seems) endeavor to renovate this old farmhouse, but our...
What Is the Mushroom Factor?
fixing up old houses That is the question of the day, isn’t it? Well, though I wrote a small blurb about it early in the days of this blog, I found that Squidoo had no search results for it. That is right: a whole huge online community had no resource for...Ilona’s Garden Journal
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