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Do it Yourself

We've decided to start a new journal category: Do it Yourself! For certain projects we're going to post photos and steps for how we did certain projects. Because if we can do these, anyone could. ;-)

Once we started thinking seriously about buying this specific house, we knew we were going to have to learn a lot. Luckily we've got great dads and some wonderful friends and neighbors who've gone through this themselves. But since we're both career educators, we also started thinking about how we could share what we learn...and in a real way where problems come up that we have to solve. (They never show those parts in those home improvement TV shows!!) So, later on we started this site and realized we had a great way to actually do that...thus a new category for our website!

Projects will probably run the full range of complexity (although we're starting simple) and should eventually cover lots of topics (since this whole house basically needs to be fixed). We're thinking that most entries will focus on:
- How we approached a project.
- Problems we ran in to and how we got around them.
- Tools and materials we needed.
- Books and websites that helped us figure it out.
- Money we saved by doing it ourselves. (Sweat equity!!)

Hopefully you'll have as much fun reading about our projects as we have doing them! Plus, we'll be looking for you all to share your knowledge too. Don't be afraid to suggest even better ways to do things...especially if you see us doing something wrong! We're sure we'll all be learning something along the way!

Posted by aaron on July 28, 2003 at 10:37 AM (2)

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