2nd Annual Bungalow Blog Tour

Saturday, May 8th, 2010

Welcome to Bungalow '23, stop five on the Bungalow Blog Tour! When my wife, Ms. Bungalow, and I bought our house in October of 2004, we weren't necessarily looking for a bungalow or an Arts &  Crafts home.  We just wanted a place near the south Minneapolis neighborhood where Ms. Bungalow ...

A Short Update

Friday, April 2nd, 2010

The drywall crew finished their work in the bedroom days ago and the new walls are ready for primer.  But with a child on spring break and a new puppy to train, I just haven't had the time to work on it. Today, I finally got to the hardware store to ...

Bedroom Drywall Progress

Wednesday, March 24th, 2010

There's nothing terribly complicated about hanging and finishing drywall.  It can be a popular do-it-yourself project for that very reason, and I've even done a bit of it myself. Getting quality drywall results, however, takes smart layout decisions and a skilled hand-- and I have accepted that it will take a lot more ...

Drywall Delivery Day

Friday, March 12th, 2010

Apparently the delivery of the drywall for my bedroom project was a big enough spectacle to draw my neighbor to her front yard with camera in hand.  Here's the view she saw: The boom truck lifted 24 sheets of 4' x 12' sheetrock up to the bedroom window opening on the ...

Refinishing A Radiator

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

In the two months since I finished stripping the paint from the radiator for my bedroom project, I have had some time to work and reflect. First the reflection: chemical stripping a radiator was tedious, laborious, odious, noxious;  in short, a massive pain.  I chose chemical stripping after determining off-site paint ...