Window Trim – Part 2 – Ten Years to Instant Gratification Finally. Window Trim I’m not sure you’d call our home office a hellish landscape, but it certainly possesses many characteristics that bring forth wailing and gnashing of teeth....
Whether you’re looking for a small acreage for homesteading, a working farm to support a career change, or a large parcel for a family retreat, finding the right piece of ground is nothing like spending the day at Sunday open houses in a new subdivision. Where...
We had gone for 10 years without a porch ceiling, and though the families of barn swallows and pigeons thought that was great, our family wasn’t that impressed. As far as the porch ceiling went, I was all about the beaded-board sheet material from Lowe’s....
Window trim isn’t just about having pretty stuff around your windows. It provides some more utilitarian services, helping stabilize the sashes – they’re the moving parts of the window – and most importantly, helping to seal at the bottom of the...
Growing in the Midwest, farm lanes were a thing. It was a cropping region, with no livestock, other than seasonal 4H project animals. With little livestock, there was little fencing, and fields weren’t planted fence row to fence row, like we plant here in...
Tips on Selecting a House Site Three major physical factors contribute to your enjoyment of your farm – your farm location, your driveway placement, and your house site. They’re interdependent, governed by economics, practicality and aesthetics. Get these right, and...