New Toilet Tips

Friday, August 6th, 2010

It's the most popular seat in the house, but the toilet in my main floor bathroom was a mess.  The tank cover was chipped up, it used obscene amounts of water to flush, and--despite my repair attempts--it often needed the handle jiggled to stop the tank fill. So I decided it ...

New Schoolhouse Lights

Saturday, January 9th, 2010

Schoolhouse Electric just announced their new lighting catalog in an email I received recently.  The catalog is chock full of eye candy, and really worth checking out.  You can view the entire catalog online or request to have a printed version mailed to you, if you're of the clip-and-save persuasion. (photo ...

A Fine 2009

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

We may be far enough into 2010 for some people to have made and broken new resolutions, but I'm not yet through reflecting on 2009 and planning for the year ahead. Sure, I could beat myself up about the backlog of unfinished projects I'm carrying forward into the new year-- ...

Foam Insulation Cost Analysis

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

My last post about getting insulation-ready prompted a question about the cost of insulation.  But simply posting the price I paid isn't very useful to a reader.  I wanted to offer a response in a way that got away from the specifics of my project and that could be useful ...

Getting Back To Reality

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009

Reality.  We can waste a lot of time and energy trying to avoid it, but eventually, unfailingly, reality catches up with us. So what's the reality that I've been trying to avoid?  Simply this: my upstairs bedroom project will not be finished by the end of the summer if I insist ...