I was talking to one of the banks on Thursday and they kept thinking I wanted to build a commercial building and they’d be happy to loan me the money at 8.5% variable ! If I wanted to build a house, I would qualify for 6.25% and could get a 15y fixed.
So, I said I’d [...]

The source for my post’s title is a book by Sarah Susanka. I am in the midst of designing a new home. At the same time, I am watching all of these “dream homes”, “home improvements”, “this old house”, “rezoned”, etc. shows of TV. The TV shows keep showing bigger and bigger homes - [...]

I was hunting around for a box the other day, and came across the following item. The handle slides the right part toward the left. The left part is threaded and can be moved closer or further from the right by screwing it further out or in. The left end can be reversed with the [...]

My brother stopped by to visit and I told him about the “what it is” I posted. He asked to look at the “thing”. After only a minute he said; “If I were to guess, I’d say it was for cracking pecans.”
I Googled “pecan cracker” for images and he was right! There are lots of images [...]

For the farmhouse project, I will be building the kitchen. One of the big tasks will be building the cabinets. I learned my lesson from my last kitchen and will have few if any base cabinet doors and shelves. Instead, I will have drawers - lots of drawers.
There are some very nice high-end hardware for [...]

One of my kitchen faucets just arrived (thanks again to eBay). It will look right at home in my kitchen but it’s not likely for everyone. That’s OK. It’s my kitchen.
I think, if the woman in the Kohler commercial has pulled a pre-rinse faucet out of her hand back - an impossible feat [...]

I’m building my kitchen around a Jen-Air 48″ wide pro-style stainless steel range. But that’s jumping right into the middle of a story. Lets go back a little …. (cue wavy picture and dreamy music)
I’ve been holding my breath for a couple months now or a JB would say “I’m literally holding my breadth” [...]

Google made quick work of this “what’s it” - so much so I had to edit Roy’s nearly instantaneous post to hid the answer. You may recall I am designing the closest think to a “private commercial” kitchen as I can and still have it feel like a home. The post about the pre-rinse [...]