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Stained concrete floors are all the rage in modern design. You’ve seen them at your local Starbucks… or hopefully you shun the corporate coffee house in favor of a local roaster and manage to catch a glimpse of stained concrete floors there as well. They’re everywhere these days, and I think it’s a design technique [...]
By January of 2011, we had started interior projects in the house. The first project to be completed was our closet. Our home is quite small, but we make the best of every inch we have. In February, we found prints in the snow that looked like mountain lion. But we weren’t sure…yet… And although [...]
It’s not quite winter but I’m starting to settle into winter projects already. Over the next few weeks I’ll continue to work on the garden infrastructure outside by putting up the new fencing, building raised beds and prepping for water and electricity expansions in the spring (this includes getting the solar field ready!), but once [...]
This was a busy busy weekend working on the chicken coop. Friday at 8:00am the chicken enclosure and coop looked just like this… After a quick run to the lumber yard I came back with 3 pieces of decking and 100 standard 2×4′s. The decking went on quickly and by 10:00am I was building trusses [...]
Building stuff is definitely one of my favorite parts of our little experiment. Here’s a quick rundown of some of the larger projects we have in progress. #1 The Chicken Coop – We decided to make a very small room inside the coop for a sink, feed storage and access to the nesting boxes so [...]
We were dealt a HUGE piece of stress-relieving awesomeness yesterday. WE PASSED OUR FINAL INSPECTION!!! That’s right, no more inspections, deadlines, inordinate amounts of stress related to the unforeseeable unknowns of hoop jumping, box-checking, and code-conforming tedium. It’s in our hands from here on out, and that’s just the way we want it. We celebrated [...]
We pondered over how to treat our waste for quite some time. Originally we wanted to install a composting toilet then recycle our gray water for some useful purpose. We ran into a couple of key problems with this scenario however. 1) We had very little use for the recycled gray water. We couldn’t introduce [...]
We all stayed up late last night getting all the piping installed for the central vacuum system. Well, what really went down is that Scott did all the work, I took photos and Sadie slept But anyway, here’s what we did: Scott installed blocking which will serve as a place to mount the vacuum unit [...]
