As the weather has warmed, Holly and I have opted to immerse ourselves in yet another construction project.  Since our garage has been taken over by yard care equipment, we really need a shed.  This is a perfect opportunity to use the skills that I learned while building the basement. I’ve always been impressed with the look of shed kits but I’ve never really heard anything good about them.  It seems like they always have...

For the past few years, Alex and Emma were sharing a room.  We thought that putting Alex in with Emma was the best option since, at the time, both he and Hannah had a hard time going to sleep at bedtime.  There was way too much playing and jumping on beds and it just wasn’t worth the nightly battles. The problem with the sharing of the room though is that both kids were very messy.  It was rare that the carpet could be seen thanks...

Now that the basement is almost completely finished, I decided that the weekend would be spent trying to clean the garage enough to allow one of our vehicles to be parked inside.  I have always taken great pride in the fact that, unlike some of our neighbors, we could actually park both vehicles in the garage and still have room to walk around them.  When we decided to start working on the basement though, all that changed.  I still took...

I know that it’s been a while since I posted anything.  I actually have good reasons for not doing so.  Last week was complete chaos in the Zohner home.  Let me try and catch everyone up. Last Friday, my sister Chelsea got married.  Because of this, my mom came into town from Denver.  The last time she was here, she made a comment about how the basement looked just as it had months earlier when she last saw it.  I wasn’t...

I’ve come to a horrible realization over the past week as I have been cutting and installing the baseboards and door moldings in the basement: I’m allergic to the wood that I’m using.  Well, that’s somewhat misleading because I’m not using real wood.  I’m actually using medium-density fiberboard or MDF as it’s more commonly called.  MDF is an engineered wood made by breaking down softwood into...