We get asked about our front door and storm door pretty often. When we were trying to decide on doors we drove around our neighborhood takin...

The first step was to remove the old porch and concrete steps: Next were the support posts and porch structure. Porch flooring: This was ...

When we first bought our house in 2000 it had some boxy, overgrown evergreen bushes in front of the porch. We removed them and planted a tre...

When our house was originally built in 1927 the front porch had no support posts at all - it was just built right on the ground. When we bou...

Not having a garage that we could store anything in for 4 years we'd been keeping all our yard stuff in the basement and hauling our old...

The next project that I felt was necessary since I was going to be a stay-at-home-mom was a patio. I figured we'd be spending a lot of t...

Our house was originally a four-room house - a living room, kitchen, and two bedrooms (well, 5 if you count the bathroom). The two front roo...

Once the garage was removed we had a cedar fence installed in our backyard. Next we spent several hours cleaning up bits of asphalt and conc...

When we purchased our house in 2000 it had a detached one-car garage that seemed about to tip over. We were never able to park in it or stor...