House in Progress Diary

Houseblogs.net recovers. Economy...not so much.

As some of you may know, in addition to this personal houseblog we also run the website Houseblogs.net. It's a bit of a labor of love that's grown over the years and is now somewhere between a hobby and a...

Posted by aaron on October 21, 2008 7:53 AM

Hot and Bothered

We started up the House Voyeurism Flickr Pool for Houseblogs.net. Here is the description from the introduction:...

Posted by jeanne on February 12, 2008 10:25 PM

Houseblogging in the Wall Street Journal

This Friday's edition of the Wall Street Journal includes a pretty nice article on houseblogging, including a reference to this site and to the other site we manage: Houseblogs.net. The article focuses on an interview the reporter did with Jeannie...and...

Posted by aaron on September 28, 2007 6:54 AM

Our Weekend

Things we did this weekend: - Kept painting trim on house and garage (only the top half of the house is left to be done...yay! And our neighbor was delirious with joy.) -Began installing new version of Houseblogs.net with upgraded...

Posted by jeanne on September 18, 2007 7:15 AM

House in Progress in Chicago Home

This week the September/October issue of Chicago Home Magazine arrived at our local bookstore and our site was among five websites listed under the title Design Diaries: Five local home blogs that keep us coming back for more. It's...

Posted by aaron on September 4, 2007 11:50 AM

DesignMyRoom Launches - Congrats to Swatchbox

Our friends at Swatchbox have launched an impressive interactive design tool....

Posted by aaron on August 31, 2007 11:16 AM

Don't Believe the Hype

If you believe what you read in the press these days, you'd think this house is putting our marriage at serious risk. We're here to tell you that while we could use a little free time without deadlines, things...

Posted by aaron on May 1, 2007 7:09 AM

Hello San Francisco Chronicle Readers

Today our site was featured in the Home section of the San Francisco Chronicle in an article about home improvement and renovation blogs. The article (Have Hammer, will blog) interviews us among a number of other people who have chosen...

Posted by aaron on April 14, 2007 6:36 PM

Hello Vancouver Sun Readers!

Many thanks to Derek from Kensington Bungalow who tipped us of to an article in today's Vancouver Sun about houseblogging that happens to mention our blog here at House in Progress.  The great thing about this particular article is that...

Posted by aaron on March 2, 2007 4:35 PM

Housebloggers and the 5 Things Meme

We've been busted.  I thought we had flown under the radar of the 5 Things Meme careening around Houseblogs.net, but Enon Hall called us out and I don't have time to write about what I was going to so here...

Posted by jeanne on February 28, 2007 5:13 PM

Track Your Favorite DIY Topics at Houseblogs.net

Sorry, but we've been a little slow to post here at House in Progress.  That's partially a reflection of exactly what you'd expect--we haven't done jack on the house in the past few weeks.  However, it's also due to the...

Posted by aaron on February 5, 2007 11:01 AM

Introducing the Houseblogs.net Community

Every once in a while we have something to share on this site about our other little online project--houseblogs.net.  Today is one of those occasions, because we've launched an upgrade that we've been planning (and talking about) for a long...

Posted by aaron on September 5, 2006 4:33 PM

Housebloggers in the Chicago Tribune

The Chicago Tribune (our hometown paper!) wrote a very cool piece about housebloggers today called True-life confessions of the weekend warrior.  The tagline almost made me spit tea onto my keyboard:  Bloggers detail the good, bad and ugly of rehabbing;...

Posted by jeanne on July 21, 2006 8:44 AM

Reaction to Mention in Old House Journal

We didn't realize that HouseBlogs.net had been mentioned on the Editor's Page of the July 2006 edition of Old House Journal until we returned yesterday from a vacation.  We caught wind of the mention via other housebloggers.  Some of the...

Posted by jeanne on July 6, 2006 9:00 AM

Three Years (and 11 Days) of Progress

Believe it  or not, it's now been three years since we closed on the house.  In fact, it's eleven days past the exact anniversary--whoops!  I guess time flies when you're having fun so much going on.No, actually it really has...

Posted by aaron on June 9, 2006 4:08 PM

High-Tech Mailbag: How to Install Structured Wire?

We haven't reached in to our digital mail bag in quite a while, so I decided to post the latest question we got from a frustrated DIYer... Hello, my name is Clint. I stumbled upon your web page and read your posting...

Posted by aaron on February 24, 2006 11:29 PM

Houseblogs.net Is Up and Running...with Something New, Too

Our hosting service fixed a bug and houseblogs.net is working properly again. Sorry if the problem prevented anyone from getting their regular houseblogs fix for a few days. ;-) Beyond just repairing the site, we've added something new too: Ask...

Posted by aaron on November 20, 2005 3:22 PM

Energy Conservation Projects: EFI.ORG

Carries energy conservation items that are hard-to-find in traditional retail outlets....

Posted by jeanne on October 13, 2005 1:09 PM

HouseBlogs in the Wall Street Journal

Um, wow! We just got an email letting us know that a bunch of houseblogs are in today's edition of the Wall Street Journal. So, I darted out at lunch and snapped up a few copies from a local bookstore....

Posted by jeanne on June 30, 2005 2:27 PM

Interactive Home Design Tools

If I could accomplish this in real life as easily as I could on the computer, I'd be set!...

Posted by jeanne on April 19, 2005 6:20 AM