A real, actual post! Yes, I know it's been ages. I stopped working on the house a few years ago because I accepted a new position at wor...

This weekend I put up the lattice under the deck and built a pair of gates. In the above picture the lattice is just resting in place. It...

In a few weeks we'll stain and seal it.

We got a late start yesterday afternoon so we didn't get as much done as we had hoped. Lowes didn't have enough of the baulisters we...

Yesterday we laid the decking. I forgot to get a board long enough for the center piece so the one that's there is just laid in temporar...

Yesterday I finished the deck framing. It took longer than I thought it would. I had expected to be able to install the decking yesterday to...

Yesterday we worked on framing the deck. Somehow I mis-calculated and ended up 4 boards short so we couldn't finish. I forgot the camera...

I know I haven't posted in a few weeks but it's because I kept forgetting the camera, not for lack of work. Last week I built the ov...