A few weeks ago I undertook a project to restore old butterfly chairs I had "acquired" in an effort to make them a bit more presentable. The final piece of the process was to replace the white canvas slipcovers with something better. I had tried … [Continue reading]
Summer is upon us - today (June 21st) is the official first day. Even if I didn't know what day the summer solstice occurred I would know it's summer because my daughter is on summer holiday and the temperature outside has broken triple digits … [Continue reading]
The other day I found out that according to the "experts", my website www.lifeofanarchitect.com is valued at $173,062 and I thought to myself that can't possibly be correct. The content on this site could surely be had with some loose change and 3 … [Continue reading]
. I was once told by my father-in-law that I would make a great contractor. Considering that he is a construction manager himself and has run projects as large as $730,000,000 (yes - that's closing in on a billion) if he's talking construction, I … [Continue reading]
It's been a while since I thumbed through my old Architectural Forum issues for hilarious (yet insightful) ads for architectural and interior building products. This time I grabbed the October 1940 issue and sorted through the ads looking for … [Continue reading]
There is something that makes this site different from most other architectural blog sites. It is something that most can't quite put their finger on ... but there is something there - you can smell it. Some might say it's the in-depth critical … [Continue reading]
