The Making of a Craftsman Home. We are the proud owners of a craftsman four square in Tacoma, WA. Our blog is about making a home and learning to live a craftsman way of life. Tuesday, June 16, 2015. Friday, January 17, 2014.

Built in 1923, Blogged in 2009. Tuesday, January 28, 2014. When we renovated our kitchen. A few years ago, we chose a Corian. After being away from the house all day, we returned home late in the evening. I went straight to bed, but my husband stayed up to watch a movie. In the middle of the night, he heard a loud noise. The counter top had cracked! Or, more accurately, the seam split. I have no pictures yet, bu.

Wednesday, February 22, 2012. This past Summer, we completed major renovation work on our basement and the space is now all finished. We are slowly completing the finish details room by room. Floors - White glossy hex tile with black and white border. Sink - Xylem-CUM198RWT Undermount Sink.

Tuesday, December 23, 2014. My parents are here and my dad is totally savings us by doing most of the trim work.

The story of restoring a beautiful brick 1906 foursquare in the MidWest. Saturday, October 25, 2014. Wall paper, wall paper, wall paper, paint. There was actually THREE layers of wall paper and one layer of green latex paint - thank goodness it was latex. However, in some places they painted the latex on the plaster where they had pulled some of the wall paper off. Not completely, mind you. Why? Why did you do this? Very excited about the changes. We did lose a little p.

Friday, June 7, 2013. And we are coming upon 1 year left on our 5 year plan with this home. One of my goals this weekend is to come up with a small list of projects that I would like to get done this summer. 1st will be updating this blog more often and with the few little projects I tackled over the last year. Sunday, May 27, 2012. The outside of the house is still missing shingles a.