Retrospective

Howdy folks. Brokenthumbs here. It’s been a couple of weeks hanging out in our new, nearly finished kitchen and i’ve got to say I love it. The food comes out without complaint, or… Read More →

8-bit Kitchen

Our collective bank accounts decided to put an immediate stop on all impending home repairs or improvements, which included a mandate; the countertops and backsplash must be postponed pending further funding or resource… Read More →

White is Right

Wax On, Wax Off

There is no reason to remake The Karate Kid with a mustache-less Chinese kung-fu practitioner. We sum up the best part of the movie every time a box of spackle paste comes home… Read More →

Ahoy Matey

First off, we’d like to apologize for the lack of earth shattering progress on our kitchen collab. Broken Thumbs has been quite busy getting his life back in order and cannot devote his… Read More →

Ketchup and Rice

Now that our stove is working, the rest of our kitchen needs to catch up so we started putting the finishing touches on our cabinets, walls and floor. Heading to orange box, we… Read More →

Come on baby, beleuchten Sie mein Feuer

What time is it? It’s peanut butter jelly blog time! Although neither of us like Nazis or Würchwitzer Spinnenkäse (Milbenkäse), we still think we have a strange affinity for all things German. Pointy… Read More →

A Natural Selection

Upon embarking on the kitchen remodel adventure it’s easy to recognize the rough road of arduous tasks, like drywalling, plumbing and electrical, but like the poor and oft forgotten Wallace, what and how… Read More →

Eat me

I bet you think that your attic is dark, filled with rats or bugs, and where the boogie monster hangs out during the day. Surprisingly, there are none of these things in our… Read More →

Just nod if you can hear me

Hello? Is anybody there? We spent the final days of this past week primering and painting up the rearranged living room. Thankfully we had our ever faithful assistant, mew, join our painting party… Read More →

Italian Stallion

Finding a dark gray tile, devoid of brown, was quite the difficult task. Heck, finding a non-brown tile was down-right impossible at big Blue Box home improvement center. Pointy Shoes’ coworker was kind… Read More →

Tyranny

After three days, you might be asking yourself, what was that great surprise? You may ask yourself, where is that beautiful house? You may ask yourself, where does that doorway lead to? And… Read More →

The Dream Team

It’s Half-Time in our marathon renovation session, and i’m starting to feel like somebody on a bad HGTV show, except we don’t have the bad jersey/canadian accents, emotional onscreen meltdowns, and prerequisite camera… Read More →

Down to skin & bones

Well, just bones really. Broken thumbs’ dad came to help us with the house and did a good job cleaning up the last details. I think I’m starting to see the light at… Read More →

This post is dedicated to Robert

We LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE our new maple tree, thanks to Robert. After we brought it home, pointy shoes found and removed cigarette butts, ABC gum, and trash in… Read More →

Smash the Magnavox

We spent the weekend removing the top cabinet. It looks better already! and wall siding/door framing brown poo-ness. Here’s an action shot of pointy shoes removing the tiled countertops. I hope this never… Read More →

Do you likey?

After much futzing and frustration, this is the final layout. We decided not to get Ikea sink and faucets. instead… BEHOLD! I know a stainless steel sink is nothing to write home about,… Read More →

Squirrels & Birds

What happens when you ask a squirrel to build a bird’s nest? You get a not so great kitchen. which is why the chef, pointy shoes, has designed the kitchen below. Broken thumbs’… Read More →

Zee Germans and Svedish

Feeling out of place, surrounded by wanna-be chefs with too many LVs on their bag, we found “the one” we had been looking for. To be honest, we had already found the one… Read More →

Kitchen Ideas

This is what we have so far after taking some better measurements. We have our hearts set on white tile floors, and Ikea Cabinets, but we’re pretty unsure of what we’re doing when… Read More →

This Hammer was Made for Smashing

Yes. We’ve been very busy with things other then our dilapidated house, however with an impending visit from the house building authorities of our family, we got back to work this past weekend.… Read More →

The Symmetry Police

Instead of his & her sinks, which inevitably never get used, we decided to put together a his & her workstation, or more accurately, procrastination station. A friend of ours was kind enough… Read More →

Thank God We Live in the 20th Century or I No Longer Need My Sears Catalog

Firstly we must thank Uncle Randy and Aunty Joan. We would dedicate a plaque to your most gracious contribution to our home, but I doubt you would enjoy your names gracing our porcelain… Read More →

Ward was a Genius

Late last evening after having a good long housing conversation with the parentals, Pointy Shoes and I got home bleary-eyed and ready for a good nights rest when we had the sudden urge… Read More →

The Parentals

So my parental units (this is broken thumbs here), are on there way to visit us and what rightly is their house as well (we still owe them, along with pointyshoes’ parentals a… Read More →

Like A Record Baby

I know that by the age of 18, you’re supposed to give up your stuffed animal collection and be adults when it comes to your bedroom accessories. No more race car beds, no… Read More →

Wanna Be Mid-Century

Pointy Shoes got tired of exposing herself to the cars stopping at the stop sign outside our window, so we got white window coverings. After living with them for a week, I understand… Read More →

addendum

broken thumbs forgot to mention that we’ve had a streak of serendipitous occurrences. first, our old roommate, evan, came into town from texsucks on his way to seattle with an empty uhaul and… Read More →

Post Traumatic Moving Stress Syndrome

After an all month move-n-scrub-a-thon I think it’s safe to say we’re done. The giant fish tank is in our new place, along with the rest of our larger items. I fixed the… Read More →

Where the Magic Happens

So now that we painted our room our hand-me-down bed really didn’t match. In the name of good taste (and to avoid having four different kinds of wood in the same room, yikes),… Read More →

The Network

After living through the wireless revolution i’ve decided that wireless stinks. It works just well enough and looks just good enough that you won’t get off your tush and wire things up properly,… Read More →

Mounting Studs or The Walls are Alive with the Sound of Xbox

So apparently our walls have a few too many studs. We fed the multimaster a couple squares of our freshly flat and painted wall in order to run wires behind the wall, and… Read More →

Itso Flat!

We’re finished painting! well, more like we got tired of painting so we decided to stop. Broken thumbs managed to get the TV hung as well. It just took 10 holes in our… Read More →

Prince Songs That Begin with Purple

How did I get such a great picture of my surrounding landscape at the new place? Glad you asked! I felt like today was a great day to risk life and limb to… Read More →

The Great Conversation Starter

I don’t think I need any rants for this one. It makes for a good conversation segue from weather small talk to the most awesome pickup line ever found. The always classic “hey… Read More →

Insert Title Here

My brain is dead. Pointy Shoes insisted on smooth walls so we began the arduous task of sanding down the skip trowel nonsense with the trusty green and navy. Even with its mighty… Read More →

I am the multi-master

If you have met me in the real fleshy world, you probably already know that I’m savagely addicted to tools, German power tools specifically, like a crack addict to well.. crack, so when… Read More →

Locks & Shit… Mostly Shit

So somebody kindly stole the lock box with our keys when we were in escrow, so taking some sagely advice from the internet, we went through and changed all the locks on the… Read More →

Grief

At some point in our tiny existence as human beings we experience loss of something dear to us. A big loss like this is the root cause of grief I’m told, and what… Read More →

3D mock-ups

I’m way too lazy to sketch-up myself the whole damn house right now, so i’m goofing with IKEA’s neat tool. It’s perfect for those of you who think sketch-up is way too much… Read More →