Washington New Old House

Big Ed is finally retired! After moving to Washington, Ed continued to commute to California every week for work. Now, three years, nine mon...

Last Monday, the finish coat went on the sheetrock, and we are ready for primer and paint. The finish coat upstairs is a Venetian plaster fi...

I took off to visit family for a few days and Ed stayed home and worked worked worked. Now that the sheetrock is all up Ed corralled a few k...

Sometimes you are money ahead by paying the pros to do their job quickly and efficiently. We decided to sub out the insulation and sheetrock...

Ed finished the Trex deck two weeks ago, and I forgot to post a picture. That darned stuff is really heavy! Hopefully it will last forever...

We were having a house full of company for July 4th, so one of the priority projects before that was to clean up outside. Boy, does the s...

The immediate goal is to get the shingling done up to that green trim board. That's pretty much the first floor. We want to get that don...