Paul Lesieur

Paul Lesieur

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I am a former keyboard player for 60's and 70's soul bands, traveled the USA a lot. Grew up in New England and was a Yankee Workshop participant and learned carpentry and remodeling from some very knowledgeable people. Now I write, paint, sail and try to live with my wife and 2 daughters. I think I finally know what I want to do when I grow up. Nah, I really don't.

Home page: http://www.remodelcrazy.com

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Paul Lesieur :: Oscar Awards for Remodeling

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October 5, 2010
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Oscars for remodeling! By Paul Lesieur How about giving out Oscars for remodeling? We could have 4 categories. [ . . . ]
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Paul Lesieur :: Its the Heart of the Matter and the Soul of It All

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September 8, 2010
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The world was my oyster. Little did I care what people thought, busy as I was wandering over the soiled and urban backyards I called home. It was my time to begin what would be a lifetime of making things. A journey of thoughts put to hammer and nail. And an abstract eye was being developed that never saw an object alone, things made more as a piece to a puzzle that I could master. Wood, nails, and a motley assortment of hammers, saws and pliers scrounged from the basement workshop of my father, and grandfather, gave me the instruments of destruction that I called my tools. [ . . . ]
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Paul Lesieur :: Is There a Science to Remodeling?

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August 18, 2010
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Science being quick to offer speculative theories has had no success explaining the relationship, if any, between The Plumbers Crack and the Mariana Trench. Both sizable fissures that have denied explorers for the last century. The Mariana Trench has recently been photographed and been found to contain undiscovered species of deep water fish; the Plumbers Crack however has not been proven to support life and further study is hampered by a lack of volunteers. Studies of the Plumbers Crack will continue when technology catches up to the demands of science and an unmanned vehicle can be employed for these explorations. [ . . . ]
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Happy Birthday Remodel Crazy! (Belated)

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August 2, 2010
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I love Remodel Crazy! I love Remodel Crazy! We started RC because the phone wasn't ringing, the RRP rule was just being announced and it was something to do. [ . . . ]
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Paul Lesieur :: Until We Built It . . . (Thats Moxie)

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June 8, 2010
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Today its raining and gloomy but not sad, but since its poetry day here's what I did last night for my own blog, but I think it fits better here. [ . . . ]
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Paul Lesieur :: Remodeling is Like Dancing

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May 11, 2010
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In conversations with customers I have heard remodeling described as, "It's like giving birth", "It's like cooking", "It's like the Tower of Babel story, everyone speaking a foreign language and not seeming to communicate well at all". But for me it's not like that; to me remodeling is like dancing. Picture the various trades working in and around each other, all tuned in to the moment, to the rhythm of it all, is that any different than 2 stepping to a Cajun Zydeco band? [ . . . ]
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    Remodeling Show Regular :: Visiting with Chris Wright of WrightWorks

    By jb on November 8, 2011

    A natural speaker Chris opened by talking about his sincere and humble passion for building things. But drawing on personal history both with FedEx and on his martial arts background, he talked of the common perceptions both sides face . . . how designers see contractors and how contractors see designers. But he says, and targeted to those of us sitting in the audience, “You must empty the cup.” [ . . . ]

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