Back when our two story house was a just a one story pavilion outdoor kitchen we ran across our local Habitat for Humanity Restore was having a moving sale and everything was 75% off. So I jumped at the opportunity and braved the crowds to grab the tags off of every cabinet that I could get my hands on. About 8 months later, after sitting not so smartly under and on tarps at the top of the hill, they were finally dragged under the house. Another month later, the bottom cabinets have been drag...

I realize that the reason that I haven’t been writing blogs is because what I do now is becoming exceedingly technical as to the workings of building a house with little carpentry experience. So instead what you get is REALLY heavy blog topics about my take on the world or about my latest illness. So I am going to have a go at describing some of the technical things involved with building your own house, from how to build cabinets/counters using as much salvaged material as possible to h...