Back at the turn of the year I said one of the projects on the table for his year was a design build project I’d be calling the Cove House. Well, the project hasn’t gone away. We signed the contract the end of January, but didn’t get started until the first of March. And, as […]

Finish stripping is one of those “easy” things that’s a hardware store video favorite. But as I was reminded this last week — it’s not as easy as those store videos make it look. In fact, there’s a lot that’s simply not well known. So, though I originally wasn’t going to write about this […]

Deforestation and predatory logging practice being the major concern of many that it is, regular old sawn lumber is rarely considered a green product. But for everything there is an exception. And my summer project ended up being one of them.
Every stick of lumber used on two of the three projects completed was […]

Whew!
Sorry for the absence in posting here the last few weeks. (Actually, I think it’s been a month, hasn’t it?) I’ve been trying to wrap up a project and for the last month or so and haven’t even had a weekend off, nor have I had time to do any office work. Both are times […]