Ithaca Court Occasional House

09/18/2026

More from before we painted

09/18/2026

I was using two phones to take pictures, so these are some I didn't post before.
More to follow.
This isn't quite a before picture, more like a mid-way set.

08/22/2026

What an amazing day! So many thanks to all the people who helped. Despite having some rain, we were able to get it done.
We are going to repaint the fulcrum gate. Although it looks good, it's a little too Disney Princess in the purple color.

07/24/2026

The archway is up! Stop by to see it and try out the gate.
We'll be having a painting party August 22nd if the weather allows.
What colors should we use?
We do have a name for it. Artists Gate.

09/10/2025

Hard at work preparing the site for our new piece of art. It's going to be a while, but we need to be ready for it.

07/20/2025

We are prepping the front yard for a new art piece to be installed in the next few weeks. It is turning out to be a big challenge!
There was a tree that had been cut down before we got the property. It was a Yew tree.
Yews are the type of wood they make archery bows out of.
But by the time we got it it was essentially an overgrown yew bush.
So now it's time to take it out, and what we discovered was that it was a special kind, which has purple wood.
We will be making something out of the stump, like a table or something that will look really cool because it'll have purple wood.
And soon we'll have a nice piece of art to go in it's place.

12/18/2024

With the house next door being knocked down, we are putting up a new fence in spring. We have a temporary fence, with one piece of the new fence in place.

10/17/2024

This YouTube series of videos is about the refurbishing of our 64 year old stove. Eugene From Lorain Furniture and Appliances completely made it like new inside and it is a fantastic watch seeing his work

Part 1 of my series, This is a customer's stove that I am repairing. This series will go through disassembly, cleaning, adjusting the burners, rebuilding ga...