For the last five years a small, simulated wood panel refrigerator has done an adequate job keeping food cold, but its quite energy inefficient and it can only store a few items in its freezer. The refrigerator is barely adequate for one person and when Jo comes to...

  As you can see by the above photograph, there's a bunch of gray matter stuck to the wall on the left—that's PEP (Paper Enhanced Plaster). The color is a dark gray at the moment, but once the walls dry out (pick a year), the color will almost be white. I first...

Over the past few weeks, I've managed to finish two more walls. The going is a little easier compared to the outside walls since I have been placing the logs flush with the mortar. It still requires a bit of pointing with a bent butter knife, but not nearly as much as...