Back in December of last year I twisted off on a house that I drive by a few times a week - just amazed at how sloppy I thought the work was. This was a first for me, I had never identified a house and singled it out for being less than it should be. … [Continue reading]
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]
