If I were the type of person who keeps a paper planner, I would have set that thing on fire nine months ago. Who can plan for this kind of mess? Life was and still is so difficult for many that my only goal for 2020 was to be a force for good. That's it.…
This new weekly series is a casual look into my day-to-day DIY life at Blake Hill House.
Last week, I took one day to clean, rearrange, and spruce up the hygge bedroom of my dreams. In case you missed it, I also wrote a blog entry with a ton of photos. We have not…
While work on my daughter's bedroom renovation feels like it is going excruciating slow, we are making progress. The window in this room is my most complex window restoration to date. Mostly, that is due to the fancy window lite pattern on the upper sash. I thought I would write a quick post to explain…
I mistakenly almost titled this post as a mid-year check-in. Then, I realized that August is already half over. In the same way that my pandemic brain now registers the first four days of every week as Monday, the last three months have all felt like June. June is mid-year, and that's where I stopped…
So far, 2020 has turned out nothing like I expected. Early in the year, I planned the #yearofthewindow, began daydreaming about Season Four of True Tales From Old Houses, considered training for another marathon, and looked forward to a trip to Sweden in August. I also had window work planned in the Hudson River Valley,…
Lately, I have been enjoying vlogging. For all of the window restoration tutorials, it feels like a video is the best way to describe how to complete the work. I know that watching DIY videos isn't everyone's cup of tea, so I'll include the basic steps below as well. Painting a window sash isn't complicated,…