Bungalow '23: An Arts & Crafts home improvement journal

Raising The Garden, Part III

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

Finished. That's a word I don't get to say or write often enough around here. At least not without conditions like "finished for today" or "finished part 'x' of much larger project 'y'." But today, I can say that the raised garden bed project is really completely finished. In Part ...

Raising The Garden, Part II

Friday, May 23rd, 2008

Work on the raised garden bed continues, but isn't finished yet. Since my last post, I have finished framing the fence rails and applied two coats of forest green solid color stain to all the new lumber. I have also begun to work on the soil improvement, though ...

Raising The Garden

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

The calendar reads May, but I have already "raised" all my summer garden vegetables. That's because I spent my Saturday project time building up the garden plot. I took on this project for two reasons: the corner posts were no longer strong enough to properly support the chicken wire ...

Nursery Closet Framing Finished

Monday, March 17th, 2008

Over the weekend I finished framing the closet for the nursery. The outside wall needed to be built out with 2X2s to provide a nailing surface for drywall over the inside of the chimney. This will also give me a bit of space for some insulation ...

Framing the Closet

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

As if the lack of postings here wasn't sufficient to tell the story, let me spell it out: finding time for house projects and blogging has been mighty tough of late. Last weekend I watched the kids so Ms. Bungalow could put in extra hours at the office. The weekend ...