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The east wall is 1/2 finished!

My final exterior client project of 2022

A fence for a dog named Shenji!!

A blog post about starting a multi-year bricklaying project at my own home.

Treehouses – because kids love treehouses!

The complexities of building a picket fence in an historic district in my neighborhood.

The treehouse – a day off, and yet so much love...I took a day off from the treehouse project today as I was committed to another client project, repairing a fence.  However, when I left the tree house yesterday, I was disappointed that I hadn't thought to bring my...

Today, Day 14 at the treehouse project……I completed the upper loft walls, including mounting middle horizontal side wall beams on the north and south sides, and one post on the north side, and mounting the 2x6 lower beam across the broad eastern section to support the...

Today, day 13 at the treehouse project……I first completed the final “keystone” wall board on the lower deck, which involved pulling out and setting up my portable table saw to mark and rip the left and right edges of the board so that it was symmetrically cut to match...

I completed the lower walls - except for the last wall board!I managed to space and mount all of the lower wall boards yesterday and today without having to pull my portable table saw out of my work van and rip any boards to get the proper spacing. Yesterday I...