Welcome to Pleasant Valley Ranch.

The (ongoing) story of a guy, a girl, and a house in east Austin. Follow our toil, trouble, and triumph as we attempt to remodel an average 1946 bungalow into our dream home.

In the Beginning Posted: 9/10/06	Sold As-Is Posted: 9/10/06	Let the Demolition Begin Posted: 9/10/06	Reconstruction Posted: 9/10/06
Plumbing is Progress Posted: 9/10/06	Running Water...Sort Of Posted: 9/10/06	Floors Throughout...Finally Posted: 9/10/06	Bring on the Shower...Please Posted: 12/4/06
Bubbleboy's Bedroom Posted: 12/4/06	Blood, Sweat and Tears...Mostly Blood Posted: 1/25/07	A Tale of Tile and Toilet Posted: 1/25/07	Can We Get a Shower, Please? Posted: 4/6/07
Hot Water Heater Hell Posted: 4/6/07	Ducks in Trees Posted: 4/6/07	Let There be Light Posted: 7/27/07	Coming Out of the Closet Posted: 7/27/07
Bedroom, Ho! Posted: 7/27/07	Making the Living Room Livable Posted: 7/25/07	Our Art Show Posted: 5/11/08	Replacing the Sewer, Yeeha! Posted: 5/11/08
Finishing Out the Living Room...Mostly Posted: 5/11/08	Breaking Through the Fourth Wall Posted: 5/11/08	Oh and the "Fifth" Wall Posted: 5/11/08	Leveling the White-Trash Porch Posted: 5/11/08
Really, a Comfortable Living Room? Posted: 04/04/09	Stop! Bathroom Time! Posted: 04/04/09	Oh my Gosh, so Many Bathroom Updates I Needed Two Pages Posted: 04/04/09	What's This, a Third Page of Bathroom Updates? Posted: 04/04/09
Art Walk, Year Two Posted: 04/04/09	The Compromise of a Temp Kitchen Posted: 04/04/09	Ah the Joys of Appraisal Values Posted: 12/28/09	The Dollar Yard Posted: 12/28/09
Meet The Architect Posted: 12/28/09	E.A.S.T. Art Show: Year 3 Posted: 12/28/09	Making Room for Laundry Posted: 12/28/09	The City of Lost Hope Posted: 12/28/09
Best New Year's Eve Ever Posted: 2/14/10	Farewell 2009 and Laundry Hut Posted: 2/14/10	Condemned Kitchen Doom Posted: 2/14/10	Ring Around the Carport, We All Fall Down Posted: 2/14/10
Out with the Old, In with the New...Water Heater Posted: 4/27/10	Porch Be Gone! Posted: 4/27/10	New Foundation, aka Progress! Woot! Woot! Posted: 4/27/10	Deja Vu, Plumbing in the Dirt, Part 2, the Water Main Posted: 4/27/10
Tribute to Lucy Posted: 7/21/10	Prepping for Newness Posted: 7/21/10	New Subfloors, Meet Hurricane Alex Posted: 7/21/10	Houston, We Have A Wall! Posted: 7/21/10
Walls are Popping Up Like Weeds Posted: 7/21/10	Puttin' on the Ceiling Posted: 12/16/10	Holy Crap, Roof Rafters! Posted: 12/16/10	Sky, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Us? Posted: 12/16/10
A Roof With a View Posted: 12/16/10	Full Metal Jacket Posted: 12/16/10	E.A.S.T. #4 at PVR Posted: 12/16/10	At Last, Walls Glorious Walls Posted: 3/1/11
Building a Bubble Room Posted: 3/1/11	Two Halves Make a Whole Posted: 3/1/11	Party Time, Excellent! Posted: 3/1/11	From Temp, to Temp-to-Perm Posted: 3/1/11
Building History Posted: 9/20/11 (NEW!)	The Saga of the Dream Tub Posted: 9/20/11 (NEW!)	Creature Comforts Posted: 9/20/11 (NEW!)	Rooms with a View Posted: 9/20/11 (NEW!)

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