converting my shophouse

They slowly and steadily completed their jobs last week and cleaned out their rubbish on Monday. Here now is the bathroom, minus a mirror an...

The 'Turkish proverb' When the house is finished, death comes is in fact from Buddenbrooks , and Thomas Mann either made it up or m...

Could they have chosen a worse day to get back into dervish mode? All morning a storm was brewing and the air was like hot soup, plus I woke...

I haven't posted anything for a few days because Ood and the elderly cement expert slowly and carefully tiled the bathroom, tile after s...

We've had a few lazy days. He's got another job somewhere nearby where most of his people are needed, and it really is very hot. The...

Our much-trumpeted engineering solution was a total failure. They used huge chunks of styrofoam instead of small cubes, no mesh, and no grav...

The woman with the warm woolly hat and socks , who is very nice and gentle and works wonderfully hard -- she never takes a break outside but...