Yeah, I hear you on the patchy look after spot-oiling. In my place, those spots do mellow out a bit over a few months, but under certain light you can...

Totally get where you’re coming from. I’ve got an old place a couple blocks from the water, and I’ll admit, I tried to save a few bucks on siding year...

I get the labor savings on steel, but honestly, I've found plywood shear walls easier to manage when doing remodels or repairs later on. Steel frames ...

Yeah, totally agree with this. My place is an old historic home, and trust me, "structural constraints" is basically my middle name at this point. Bet...

Yeah, that's a good call. Learned that lesson the hard way when we had our inspection last year. Thought I'd covered everything until the inspector ca...

I totally get what you're saying about the castile soap leaving a film sometimes. I noticed that too, especially in brighter rooms where sunlight catc...

Couldn't agree more about drainage. When we bought our historic place, I thought the charm would outweigh the quirks... until the basement turned into...

That's a neat trick, actually. I tried something similar in my old historic home—those closets just weren't built for airflow, ya know? The little bat...