Renoventures
This blog follows the home renovation stories of my wife and I, while we tackle an early 1900's home in Central Maine. From wiring to tiling, we tackle it all. Occasionally we'll spend some time decorating or refinishing an old piece of furniture as well. Come visit us and see what we're up to!
Repurposing a room to make way for baby
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- Published on Sunday, 14 April 2013
Authors: Matt
For the past several months I’ve been telling myself that I need to write a blog post. Part of my reason for not is that I haven’t had any decent sized house projects to blog about. There has been alot going on lately though. To start, I switched careers after being with the same company for almost 12 years. It was time...
I’ve Got the Whole World, on my Wall…
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- Published on Saturday, 03 November 2012
Authors: Sara
I get a lot of *feedback* when I want to make changes in our house, especially when it comes to walls, be it the color or what’s on them. We started off with pet pictures and God awful yellow paint…
Then we went to white paint (which was an obvious mistake) and travel pictures….
Let’s face it though, the travel...
I’m no Norm Abram
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- Published on Sunday, 16 September 2012
Authors: Matt
I’ve been told recently that when I get bored, I get grumpy. I’m not sure if that’s entirely true, but I do find myself pacing around the halls when there isn’t a large scale project happening at the house. We certainly have enough small projects that need to be completed should we ever list the house, but I...
Straight out of “Compostin”
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- Published on Sunday, 09 September 2012
Authors: Sara
I’m sure that NWA had at least a passing interest in composting when they wrote the lyrics “Mix em and cook em in a pot like gumbo“. That’s kinda like composting right? Are you still with me?
To say I have a one track mind is an understatement, so when I saw my first compost bin I knew I was going to have one...
Can’t see the chicken wire, can you Russ?
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- Published on Saturday, 01 September 2012
Authors: Matt
We had a few more sections of fence to finish up in order to keep Claire safe and off her leash in the back yard. Some of it had to be done with chicken wire, and the other few sections we finished up with the fencing that we used in the other project. The fencing we were using before from Lowes was out of stock, and they had a...
Olympic Fencing
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- Published on Saturday, 04 August 2012
Authors: Matt
I’m not much of a sports fan, so this weekend while the Olympics are in full swing on the “teevee” I’m spending the day out back working on our own fence. When we had Charlotte, we had planned on installing a fence out back to keep her in the back yard. She was good at staying on our property, but it was more a...
For Charlotte
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- Published on Friday, 20 July 2012
Authors: Matt
It’s amazing to look back at all our old house project pictures and see one detail in almost every set, our dog Charlotte. Our little lab/mix has been my project manager since we got her as a puppy over 9 years ago. One of my first gigs when I was a commercial producer was to put together a campaign based on volunteerism in the...
This Retaining Wall Wasn’t Built in a Day
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- Published on Sunday, 08 July 2012
Authors: Matt
Have you ever heard the saying “Rome wasn’t built in a day”? Well, this retaining wall wasn’t built in a day. Even if we had the time to build it in a day, I’m not sure my back could take it. The project started off with a new driveway. In past winters we’ve had to shuffle cars around to dodge the...
Painting the Doors
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- Published on Monday, 28 May 2012
Authors: Matt
Since it was Memorial day weekend and the weather didn’t look half bad, I decided to take advantage of it and paint and hang the pantry closet doors. We have been deciding if we want to order new kitchen cabinet doors, or make them ourselves. In all of that mess we have to decide how the paint is going to match and look. This...
Laundry Closet Doors
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- Published on Wednesday, 23 May 2012
Authors: Matt
One of my favorite things to do is use my router. I am a router freak. If there was a support group for router users I would be a card carrying member. Whenever I get the opportunity to route something, chances are that I will do it. Back in the day when I used to work with my dad, I’d get to use a router that can only be...
