I tried the trench thing once, but I swear it looked like I was prepping for a tiny backyard river cruise. My neighbor kept asking if I was installing...
I keep thinking about this too—like, where do all the bikes, boxes of mystery cables, and old paint cans go if you lose the garage? But then again, my...
I swear, half the reason I’m nervous about smart switches is because I know the day will come when I’m standing in the dark, waving my phone around, y...
Permits Are a Maze, But Sometimes You Can Dodge I hear you on the permit headache, but honestly, I didn’t bother with the paperwork when I put up my ...
Man, I hear you on the reclaimed wood pain. I tried to “save money” by using some old fence boards for a planter box, and ended up spending twice as l...
I feel this so much. I spent hours programming my “Good Morning” scene, but now I just hit the old light switch like it’s 1999. The only thing that’s ...
Haha, glad I'm not the only one dealing with pet drama in the bathroom. My dog has decided the shower curtain is his personal nemesis—he'll bark at it...
I switched to silicone spray last winter after getting graphite powder all over my hands (and somehow my jeans too?). Silicone definitely feels less m...
Haha, pizza night math—I feel this one. But honestly, comfort is a sneaky benefit. We finally swapped out our ancient furnace last year (it was practi...
Haha, glad I'm not the only one who's learned city websites can be sneaky like that. I swear, sometimes it feels like they're playing hide-and-seek wi...
Thinning the mud definitely helped me too, but I gotta admit, my first attempt was more like soup than pancake batter...lesson learned there. 😂...
Haha, patience I have...common sense, jury's still out. Last weekend I spent two hours wrestling with a leaky faucet only to realize I'd bought the wr...
Mint is basically the Houdini of plants—mine escaped even with landscape fabric. I swear it laughed at me as it popped up three feet away. As for stor...
I looked into this too when I redid my bathroom last year (goodbye, pink bathtub from the 70s...you won't be missed). From what I gathered, it's not a...
Haha, sounds like the start of every horror movie I've ever regretted watching alone at night. Honestly though, older houses can be full of surprises....