Project: Keyless Door Locks
There’s an app for that. When I got a keyless lock on the car, I asked my husband why we couldn’t make the house keyless, too. So he set up a Nexia Home system and I love it. We have keypad locks for every door. …
Projects
Project: Protect Your Cabin from Carpenter Bees and Wood Peckers
Carpenter Bees will seriously damage a log cabin. They drill tunnels and lay eggs. Which is bad enough. But then woodpeckers come to eat the larvae and make huge holes to get at them. Woodpeckers can actually hear bee larvae. The damaged wood attracts other …
Project: Adding a Drawer Under the Cabinets
I managed to squeeze two extra drawers into the kitchen by using the space in the toe-kick. I bought two Komplement drawers at Ikea. They were not the right size, but they came with all of the parts. My son-in-law, Beau, cut them down to …
Project: Refinishing Hardwood Floor
When I bought the log cabin, it had sculptured white carpeting. I had files of photos torn out of magazines. I looked through those and did a lot of research. I wanted solid flooring. Not a veneer or a synthetic. Flooring Choices: Species: What kind …
Project: Kudzu to Apple Trees
When I bought the log cabin, the yard was completely full of thorns and kudzu. The first year, I started clearing it myself. It grew faster than I could cut it. I was covered in cuts and scratches. And it still looked as bad as …
Project: Adding Closets
When I first bought the log cabin, it had two bedrooms. One was small and the other was even smaller. The wall between them had each room’s closets. The only place you could put a bed was under a window. The other walls had doorways …
Project: Turning the Attic into a Playroom
When I bought the log cabin, it had a completely unfinished crawlspace attic. Just insulation and stuff the previous owners had abandoned laying over the roof trusses. There was access from the ceiling in the second bedroom. Roof trusses or roof rafters are not the …
Project: Log Cabin Kitchen
This is the 2017 version of the kitchen. It fits into about 8’ x 10’ of my open floor plan. There is 42” of walk space from the front of the fridge to the facing cabinets. This is plenty of room to open the fridge, …
Log Cabin Siding
Did you know they sell siding to make any house look like a log cabin? I saw this first on a dog house, but you can buy the siding at Home Depot and put it on any house. The boards are tongue-n-groove. That means they …
Richmond Barn Kits by Best Barns
Pricing from Home Depot Richmond 16’ x 20’ $8,646.85 Richmond 16’ x 24’ 10,295.00 Richmond 16’ x 28’ $11,785.00 Richmond 16’ x 32’ $12,639.00 This barn-style kit can be used to assemble a cabin, workshop or garage. It builds a 2-story barn style building you …
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