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With the office complete, it’s time to start one of the most significant transformations of the house to date. The bathroom is a look back in time and presents a unique issue of me being able to do the work. As there is only a…

As with all the rooms, the hall and dining room are worn out and need an overhaul. The hallway between the bedrooms is short and only has a couple of small obstacles. There is an old heating metal grate on the floor and the doorbell…

With the kitchen wrapped up, I have decided to start one of the two main bedrooms instead of the second living area so that my daughter will have a place to stay when she visits. She’s not to keen on sleeping on the floor with…

As with most of my projects, everything is behind schedule including my cabin in the woods. Just coming off the kitchen remodel and completing the first section of the road I have decided to hold off on the main cabin until sometime next year. In…

When I purchased my hunting property in early 2017 the only marker off the forest road was a dangling piece of orange tape hanging from a tree. I had grand plans to clear a route back to a site I had designated for a cabin…

With the laundry room/mudroom just about complete, I have begun to focus my attention on the Kitchen remodel. I have been going back and forth on tearing everything out or salvaging and enhancing the cabinets and countertops. The cabinets for this small kitchen are custom built which…

After completing the remodel of the spare room and learning a few new tricks and purchasing some new tools, it was time to move to the next phase. The laundry room/mudroom is part of the addition that was added to the back of the house.…

The journey begins… In late 2017 I decided that when my daughter left for college, I would move out of the Dallas suburbs to a small town in southeastern Oklahoma and buy some old craftsmen style homes to remodel and flip to rentals. The location was…

Upon encountering a troublesome black bear who continuously tore up my deer feeders, I decided I was going to have to come up with a better solution to the cheap plastic Moultrie ones I had installed. I began searching the hunting forums for answers but…