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Published 2024-03-27
Tag: kitchen
Published 2024-02-02
House project blog: kitchen cabinets
This was a long time ago now, but we have been too busy on uninteresting repair projects for me to be able to keep up with blogging. I started writing this near the end of last year, when our kitchen was nearly done. We have been living with it at…
Published 2023-10-25
House project blog: really good contractors
This project was huge, and it required so much work that there was no way I could have gotten it done myself. We hired a general contractor to demolish the ceiling, build the new wall, and redo the electrical wiring in the kitchen, while I focused on removing the existing…
Published 2023-07-18
House project blog: take it apart
I’m falling behind on blog posts about house projects. There has been a lot going on, and we have been making quite a bit of quick progress. Starting a couple weeks ago and ending last week I have been working on demolishing our new kitchen. The cabinets were old and…
Published 2023-05-01
Triple-berry hard cider
Over the last couple months I have been brewing a triple-berry hard cider from ingredients easily available at the grocery store. I loosely followed an easy recipe that I have used before, but this time I kegged the cider in a kegerator I bought on Facebook marketplace instead of bottling…
Published 2022-07-10
King of Flavor MSG shaker
My wife and I are fans of Nigel Ng and particularly like his Uncle Roger videos, so my brother Morgan Jones and I made her an orange-polo-shaped MSG shaker as a gift for her birthday.
Published 2021-04-16
Kitchen cabinet remodel
Last summer we started a long process to resurface our kitchen cabinets and counters to make them both more functional and more modern-looking. We started with a plan that we wanted to do something about our ugly cabinets. My best guess is that the previous owner had tried to stain…
Published 2021-01-02
Apron sink runoff diverter
We are in the process of remodeling our kitchen (which will be its own story when it is done). One of the huge improvements was replacing our kitchen sink with a deep aluminum apron sink. It is very similar to a farmhouse sink, except for 2 things. First: it weighs significantly…
Published 2020-02-11
Cabinet door repair
I wish I had taken some more pictures of this process, since it turned out pretty well in the end. Someone who lived in our house before us had an anger-management problem. Doors all over the house have signs of being slammed open or closed, like the dents from knobs…