Refinishing Concrete Floors
3 Dec 2012
Grinding and polishing my concrete floors technically started as an idea 4 years ago … but the time to do this properly came, and I’m not sure I was completely prepared for what that meant.
3 Dec 2012
Grinding and polishing my concrete floors technically started as an idea 4 years ago … but the time to do this properly came, and I’m not sure I was completely prepared for what that meant.
5 Nov 2012
It is Sunday night and I am so tired I almost didn’t write this post (the horror!!) It’s been a busy weekend and today has been a really busy day … but we have to talk about utility rooms because they can’t talk about themselves. I spent 4 hours this morning hanging out at the(…)
29 Oct 2012
Sometimes the best laid plans don’t work out – even when you have a good reason for every decision, you just don’t get it right.
23 Oct 2012
It’s only been a week but there is a lot that has happened … including a hit to the contingency fund. Twice.
17 Oct 2012
A small but compacted renovation is underway at Life of an Architect World Headquarters
17 Sep 2012
As an architect, I prepare drawings every day – so why is preparing drawings on your own house so terrible? There are many possibilities …
16 Jul 2012
residential architects, when it comes to the design of their own home, can make for the worst of clients.
26 Mar 2012
Despite the fact that it is definitely showing its age, I love my house … apparently so does someone else. Someone wants to buy it and I’m not ready to sell it.
16 Jan 2012
Wood ceilings and heavy timber beams painted white … sounds pretty nice doesn’t it? It brings to mind bucolic summer vacations and Vera Bradley catalogs.
29 Nov 2011
While accomplished as a photographer, printmaker, designer, and poet, Josef Albers is probably best remembered for his work as an abstract painter and theorist.