meg & the martin men

What up.  Been a while.  We tend to get 95% complete with a project and then stall.  We have some final trim pieces to install and the colum...

Last night I power washed the porch for the first time in probably 50 years.  Literally.  See how dirty it was?  I thought gray/brown was th...

We're getting there! We had ordered a bunch of brick mould and cove moulding to trim out the edges of the bead board ceiling but it...

We declared last weekend, "get 'er done" weekend.  Goal: No scaffolding by Sunday. Remember where we started.  Tired... ...

You'll remember our porch started here.  Fine but the house had a pretty boring roof line with the porch extending directly into the ga...

Finally after 5 weeks of waiting the roofers began installing our custom standing seam, black metal roof!  I've been sweating bullets s...

Look what started today!  I'm really nervous about the metal roof.  I've never seen a metal roof that dives into asphalt shingles. I...