House Paint Revealed

Wednesday, June 16th, 2010

Cue the drum roll!  Raise the curtain!  At long last, I am pleased to reveal the completed Bungalow '23 exterior trim painting. Did I say the paint was "completed"?  Well, not quite.  Even with all the major trim repainted, there will still be exterior painting for me to work on.  Other ...

Change of Address

Thursday, June 3rd, 2010

Okay, this one took a long time even by my ridiculously drawn-out standards.  Way way back in October of 2005, when I was a newbie blogger about to mark the first anniversary of closing on this house, I bought some new house numbers.  They were mission-style and I thought I ...

Clicker Garage Door Keypad

Friday, May 28th, 2010

Why didn't I do this sooner? For years I've thought it would be useful to have an entry keypad for my overhead garage door, but I assumed it wasn't possible without a new garage door opener and I never really looked into it. But when my house painters asked about accessing ...

Exterior Scraping and Priming

Tuesday, May 25th, 2010

With most of my house projects, things usually get worse before they can get better. As the exterior painting work here progresses, the pattern is the same, though this time I have other people in charge of the work. Getting Worse It took the painters a few days to finish the scraping ...

A Look Into The Future

Tuesday, May 18th, 2010

At last it's time, here at Bungalow '23, to look into the future! The future, Josh? That's right, Dear Reader, let's look to the future-- all the way to the year 2010! In the year 2010, in fact this very week, my house is finally getting the exterior paint job it has needed ...