A Well-Built Dream House :: ReBuilding after Katrina
They had just recently gotten the water on in their kitchen, and Sadie seemed proud of this. As it appears, this is the status quo -- home from work (as professors at...
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Avoid Shopping Overwhelm :: 5 Tips to Shop Like a Pro Designer
These are some of the steps I take as a designer to make selecting furniture, fixtures, and finishes a more productive and streamlined process, and to save my clients (and myself) from...
Baltimore Remodel with Million-Dollar Views :: A Waterfront Setting Inspires Marine Blues & Greens
Location, location, location. That was all Steffi and Andy Graham could think about when they purchased this three-story brick townhouse smack-dab on the harbor in Baltimore's Canton North Shores. Unfortunately, they weren't...
Stencil Designs :: The Stencil Revival
Stencil companies used to be synonymous with simple designs and borders. You know the ones I'm talking about. Chickens, hearts...the hideous unsophisticated borders with the tiny houses, butterflies or checkered squares...geez, I...
Stopping the Killers — Carbon Monoxide and Fire :: New Codes, Safety Checks for Gas Appliances & More
Unfortunately, during the fall and winter seasons is when we see an increase in fire & carbon monoxide fatalities. Based off the latest estimates, there were over 40,000 Carbon Monoxide cases requiring...
Exercise Tips for Home Improvement :: Battle Plumber’s Crack with These Simple Exercises
First of all, that bending forward thing you all do is technically known as lookee here babes forward flexion. Have you noticed how much your lower back hurts after a while? The...
A Kick Ass Fall Maintenance List for the Home
This maintenance list is intended to inform DIY homeowners about general home maintenance. The list suggested above is by no means a complete list of items that need maintenance in a home....
Building Moxie Goes to the Remodeling Show
The only product booths I spent more than a minute at were those of Tile*Redi, DuraDeck and Festool (more on that one down below). I was there, at the Show, for one...
VOCs :: Smell That Chemical Cocktail
Little did I know I was having my first major run-in with volatile organic compounds: VOC's. I wouldn't hear that term for many years to come, but though I had no name...
Learning How to Hammer a Nail :: Afflicted Nails: A Tree Fort Flowering
Back when tools felt unfamiliar and over sized in the hand there was a bent bouquet of 16 penny nails in a board we were trying to attach to a tree ....
Staying On the Grid, Part II: A Call to Arms to the Citizen Farmer
I've managed to see first hand how relatively simple, natural approaches to soil management can produce extraordinary results in compact spaces. Provided, of course, you're willing to invest the required sweat equity...
Building a Tree Fort :: Its the Heart of the Matter and the Soul of It All :: An Essay
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...