maintenance

A house is not only your refuge from the world, it’s also an investment. The recent ups and downs in the housing market notwithstanding, in general your home is going to increase in value. This is especially true if you find ways to improve on the property while you’re there. Unfortunately, some homes need a [...]

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This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of WD-40. All opinions are 100% mine. Seriously, who doesn’t use WD-40? We just moved into my dad’s house for a few weeks to wait for the house to be complete. He has an upholstered rocking chair that’s older than I am and it squeaks [...]

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When we designed our first custom home in 2002, we didn’t pay much attention to size. Since we had five acres of land to play with, we had few constraints. The biggest problem we had was getting height approval by the city. We focused, instead, on function. We made rooms for the all the people [...]

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