The experts at the popular home and garden media outlet, The Spruce, named their top outdoor living trends for 2024. No surpr...
Read MoreOne of my friends—a guy I used to work with on construction projects—had me over to his house the other night for an evening...
Read MoreMy grandmother was an avid gardener, cultivating a patch of ground in her backyard for years until the rectangle of soil insi...
Read MoreI first met my friend Ethan in college French class when I was in my third year and he was in his first. I graduated the nex...
Read MoreI used to be a welder in a shop dedicated to custom-made ornamental wrought iron. It was a small company with two welders an...
Read MoreHaving worked in older cities in both North America and Europe, I’ve worked on a lot of properties that have called for porch...
Read MoreA friend with whom I used to work managed to buy a house on the shore in Cape Canaveral not too long ago. When it came time t...
Read MoreA few years back, I took some extra work on a friend’s building crew. Their bread and butter work was putting up and welding...
Read MoreWhile a patio or balcony might be great for a view, sometimes they put you right in the path of the wind. This was the case a...
Read MoreOne of my big moves after leaving college behind was to buy my own home. But one night, chatting with one of my new neighbors...
Read MoreOnce upon a time, an old friend of mine caught the home improvement bug in a big way and proceeded to build a new backyard de...
Read MoreOnce upon a time, I was called in to do some touch-up work on a house in a tiny town on the Gulf of Mexico in Florida. It was...
Read MoreI work for a lot of people who truly see their dogs as their children, and who pay me to go to great lengths to make sure tha...
Read MoreLog cabins can be a bit tricky to design around. They use whole logs--or at least materials that look like whole logs--giving...
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