Recent content by Haus

I recently bought a house with a detached 2-car garage 18' wide x 19' deep. I need to use it as a shop but the floor is REALLY tilted. I knew it was bad, but I just put a laser level to it and found that it was sloping 9.25" from one side of the 16' garage door opening to the other! And it is...

I found some 36x24" awning windows at Lowes. If I set them in the door from behind so I can recess the bezel, I don't think it looks too bad.

There is a detached 2-car garage already in place and we needed more room in the house. I hate just about every example where people try to fill in where the old garage door opening was... it always looks half-baked. I thought this might be the best solution. I liked this idea a bunch, but they...

Howdy, I am looking for suggestions for placing an awning style window in a carriage door. I have two garage bays that we are converting from garage to living space and they really need windows that open. There are no other windows on that end of the house and that is the prevailing wind side...

Howdy from Kentucky. I am planning on building a timberframe outbuilding ... a small summer kitchen/smokehouse sort of thing and know just enough about construction to be dangerous. I am looking forward to looking, listening, learning and ultimately building something that won't fall on my head...