The experts at the popular home and garden media outlet, The Spruce, named their top outdoor living trends for 2024. No surpr...
Read MoreAs a former restaurateur, I am well acquainted with the challenge of keeping smelly or unsightly kitchen garbage away from th...
Read MoreHaving built fences in neighborhoods that are just about as hilly as San Francisco, I’ve encountered many creative ways to bu...
Read MoreBy their placement, corner lots are much more exposed to the public eye than other lots. I’ve worked a lot of these in old ne...
Read MoreOnce upon a time, while working as an apprentice for a big residential construction company, my company was called to put up...
Read MoreI’ve always felt that the deck of my home is like this special bonus outdoor room. It’s a place to connect and extend our liv...
Read MoreWhen my parents got their first home the backyard wasn’t fenced in, and being a young couple who’d just bought their first ho...
Read MoreA patio is meant to be a little oasis from the cares of the world, a place of beauty, relaxation, and ease. I’ve been hired q...
Read MoreI’ve worked as a builder and as a consultant for many DIY clients, and I’ve seen lots of different home improvement strategie...
Read MoreIn my career I’ve had the chance to work on quite a few big multi-unit apartment buildings, and having done a lot of outdoor...
Read MoreBringing functionality and beauty together is something that often seems to have been lost in the design of schools (which so...
Read MoreOnce upon a time on a visit to an old city (Windsor, Ontario!) in a gorgeous, intact original Victorian neighborhood, I was h...
Read MoreEvery now and then I get to drive out to the edge of town and take on some projects on large, often semi-rural plots of land....
Read MoreBuilding along the coast requires grappling with four things: salt, water, wind, and sand. This combination of elements corro...
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