Modern Barnhouse Renovation Archive

When we bought our house back in 2013, one of the biggest disasters was the back patio. There was a moldy, mildew-y vinyl fence hiding a cracked & sunk concrete pad and perhaps the world’s ugliest & most unsafe basement staircase railing. See below: Absolutely terrible! The

Ah… the downstairs bathroom in our barn house. When we toured the house before buying it, the bathroom was one of those rooms that made your skin crawl instantly. It was so grungy & gross and the floor looked like someone was murdered on it. We knew

While renovating our barn house, we quickly found out how hard it is to find a stud in the wall using one of those electronic stud finders you see at the hardware store. We plugged in a battery, and it beeped & booped in the most random

When we first looked at the barn house, we knew the kitchen & dining room area would have to be changed. The original idea was that we could “live with it” for the time being until we really decided how we wanted to change it. But once

When we first looked at the barn house, we knew the kitchen & dining room area would have to be changed. The original idea was that we could “live with it” for the time being until we really decided how we wanted to change it. But once

Well, it’s September of 2014, and it’s been over a year now that we’ve had the plywood plank floors installed. If you’ve watched my video series or read my other posts here and here, you might have wondered how they’ve held up. In short… they’ve held up

Alright, so if you remember in Part 1 of my plywood plank floors post, I mentioned how we were renovating the entire interior of our barn house and were looking for a interesting floor that was both low cost and durable. Searching around the interwebz… I found

Probably… no wait…. definitely one of the best changes we made to our house during renovations was getting rid of the uber gross, stained, sea of cat hair (umm… carpet I mean) and replacing it with wood floors. We were keeping things as low cost as possible

Boom-shocka-locka. I have no idea how to start up my newly re-purposed DIY Dork site (now with a fresh new wordpress smell!) … so why not start with the biggest project my wife and I have ever tried to redo. We bought a barn! (…house) A pretty