1900 Farmhouse

One of the more rewarding aspects of the potting shed project was using some reclaimed material. The three windows came from our neighbors ...

To match the siding on my home, I added this dutch ship lap siding to the potting shed. It was fairly expensive but worth the character it ...

Well, my last post confidently stated how easy framing the walls were. As for roof rafters, it was a completely different story. Not imposs...

I like framing. It's not extremely challenging just as long as you have measured everything correctly. The outcome creates a bit of exci...

When I first decided on the floor being concrete, I figured I'd just do it by bags and a mixer. But after a few folks comments on gettin...

For the potting shed floor, I decided on concrete from my experience of stepping through the floor of the shed that existed on the house whe...

Now with the design established, it was time to deconstruct the shed that I had built 16 years ago. It took longer than expected which made ...

The blog is back. After nearly a 4 year break, I've taken on another project on the 1900 Farmhouse worth blogging about- a potting shed....

The main reason for contracting out to Jane Coombs for a landscape design was that I knew little to nothing about what plants would survive ...

For an added feature of the hardscape, the landscape designer included "peeler poles" to the edges of a couple of mounds. It'...