Demolition
#01 Emptying a House That Held Seventy Years 
#02 The Day Demolition Paid Us Back ₩129,490 
#04 Two Grinders Are Twice as Fast — Rent, Don't Buy 
Roof & Structure
#03 Grinding Seventy Years Off the Rafters — and Ordering Blueprints for ₩70,000 
#05 A Slide for Roof Tiles, Invented on the Spot 
#06 A Quarter of the Roof, Off in Two Hours 
#10 Extending the Eaves: The Buyeon Go Up 
#11 Jacking Up Sagging Rafters — and Registering the Business 
#12 The Buyeon Are Done, and the House Finds Its Silhouette 
#16 New Gables from New Zealand Pine — and a Race Against the Rain 
#17 A Miniature Hanok at the Threshold: Building the Gate Bay 
#18 The Gate Stands — and Two Old Posts Get Relief 
#19 Why Hanok Joints Hold: A Lesson in Mortise-and-Tenon 
#20 The Roof Is Bare — and We Rearranged the Whole Floor Plan 
#22 A Ceiling Collapse, a Deadline, and a Clean Roof 
#23 Twenty-Five Bundles of Battens: The Roof Gets Its Grid 
#24 Eighty Percent of a Roof in One Day 
#25 The Day the House Became a Hanok Again 
Insulation & Walls
#07 Insulating a Roof That Was Never Meant to Be Insulated 
#08 The Invisible Work: Sealing Gaps, Sanding Eaves, Reading Regulations 
#09 From Construction Site to Space 
#13 The Best Insulation Was There All Along: What the Tile Man Taught Us 
#14 Granite, Square Stone, Black Tile: Dressing the Courtyard Walls 
#15 Finding the Finish: Putty, Mesh, and an Acrylic Filler Audition 
#21 Protecting the Star of the Show: Masking Every Rafter 
#26 The Old Windows Come Home; the Wall Campaign Begins 
#27 ₩1.5 Million of Flatness: The Wall Boards Arrive 
#28 We Glued the First Boards On Upside Down 
#32 The Compass-Cutting Method (Invented on Site, Day 35) 
Bath & Plumbing
#29 Bathroom Demolition: Two Burst Pipes and a Masterclass 
#30 Digging 40cm Down — and Renting X-Ray Vision for ₩6,500 
#31 A Tub by the Window — and the Day We Cut a Hot-Water Line 
#33 One Plumber, Eight Hours, ₩800,000 — and Heating We Didn't Know Was Broken 
#35 We Dug Up Our Own Work: Insulating the Buried Pipes 
#36 Five Pallets in One Hour: The Great Tile Haul 
#37 Black Rubber Floors and the Taming of the Main Line 
#38 A Bathtub Built Like a Wall: Brick by Brick, Laser Level Running 
#39 Trowel, Mist, Brush: Cracking the Mud-Wall Finish 
#40 The Ceiling-Plaster Manual, Written in Trial and Error 
#41 Painting Yourself Out of a Bathtub 
Interiors
#42 Forty Bags of Liquid Floor: The Leveling Pour 
#43 The Tub Gets Dressed; the Wires Get Tucked 
#44 Forty-Five Degrees of Difficulty: The Jolly-Cut Tub Rim 
#45 Three Carpenters, Three Days, and a House That Refuses Right Angles 
#46 Dry-Fix Is Not X18: A ₩13,000 Lesson in Material Character 
#47 Six-Hundred-Millimeter Tiles at Forty-Five Degrees 
#48 Erasing the Seams: Putty, Mesh Tape, and a Self-Built Wall 
#49 Four Air Conditioners and a Brick Bench in the Tub 
#50 Dome Ceilings, Sample Lights, and the Rafters Drink Their Stain 
#51 Both Bathrooms Tiled — and Epoxy for the Heavy Ones 
#52 The Day the Lattice Windows Went In 
#53 The Client's Job Is the Site: Lessons in Serving a Specialist 
#54 Hiding the Manifold, Skimming the Light Boxes 
Finishing
#55 The First Brushful of White: Paint Testing Begins 
#56 Ten Blades and a Rubber Mallet: Grout Day 
#57 The Masking Tape Heresy: Epoxy Grout, Wiped Not Taped 
#58 Porcelain Day: Toilets, Basins, and a ₩450,000 Install 
#59 Hardwood Over Red Clay Paste: The Floor Goes In 
#60 House Slippers on a Construction Site 
#61 A Shelf from Scraps, a Lamp That Wouldn't Light 
#62 A Two-Meter Roller and the Second Coat of White 
#63 A Baker's Piping Bag Meets a Stone Wall 
#64 One Brother Down: The Solo Protocol 
#65 Daiso Wallpaper and a Window Frame from the Scrap Pile 
#66 Free Bricks, a Box of Bacchus, and the Art of Hiring Strangers 
#67 Countertops, a Laundry Tower, and a ₩600,000 Rebate 
#68 The Carpenter Returns: Framing the Traditional Maru 
#69 The Maru Complete — and a Third Coat Nobody Planned 
#70 Motion Lights at the Gate, Bonsai Dreams at the Nursery 
#71 The Boiler Behind the Marble: Hiding Machinery Beautifully 
#72 Six Cans of White, and a House Cleaned for Its First Guests 
#73 Guest Zero Reports: Three Nights With Our Own Kids 
#74 Bookcases, a Budget Smart Screen, and Wi-Fi: The Stay Takes Shape 
#75 Moving a Dragon's Head for the Neighbors — and Building the Garden's Bones 
