If VIDEO is more your speed, scroll to the bottom! It’s the radical ideas that make the best memories. Building a wooden boat from scratch with no boat building experience and a nine-year-old helper was certainly a radical idea but it was also more than that. As a father-son project with my younger son, Jacob, […]
Paint Project Inspiration
Here’s the truth: You deserve the home of your dreams. You do. I’m totally serious and I’m talking to you. No if’s, and’s, or but’s about it. Write this on a little index card: “I live in the house of my dreams.” and read that out loud every day, like ten times in a row. […]
DIY and a Sense of Accomplishment
If you think it’s at all possible for you to do it yourself, I encourage you to try. Too many of us go far too long between those times when we feel victorious. You know, the sense of pride in having surprised ourselves by stretching and accomplishing something that seemed, at best, on the edge […]
10 Ways to Keep The Inspiration Alive
Raise your hand if your home remodeling plans have taken longer than you expected. Plans to build a new home? Plans to redecorate? Now take a look around the room. Almost every hand in the room is up, a few of you with both hands up, and one lady trying to hold a foot up […]
EPCOT International Flower Festival Pictures — Wow!
I went to EPCOT at Walt Disney World in Orlando for my 40th birthday yesterday. I can’t put what I saw into words, so I took pictures… (I always squeeze a word or two in somewhere) This is what was just inside the park and it kept getting better! This type of area that is […]
Amazing Swimming Pools
No WAY! When I saw this, I thought, and I quote: “You have GOT to be kidding me!” Once you’re done jaw-dropping at the pool, check out the curved block walls with colorful stucco, the sunburst pattern in the brick paver motor-court, the cool square paver-blocks with green grass between them (my neighbor has mastered […]
15 Ways Remodeling Equals a Better Life
Why remodel? I used to think the answer was as much resale value as anything else. I’m older and wiser now and that’s a good thing because resale value is, at least for now, not the best reason to remodel. So why? Of course we both know that there are lots and lots and lots […]
Pictures, Pictures, Pictures – The Key To Remodeling Success
You know what’s funny to me? When I ask myself “What is the most important factor for success in a remodeling project?” The answer I most often think of first is “pictures”! That may seem odd, but I’ve got two decades of experience to prove it’s true. Pictures are what you need to burn the […]
Inspiring House Paintings – Key West Style
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Remodeling Your Own Home – You CAN Do It!
Let me show you a picture: Now, I’ll ask you a question: Do you think you could do the work you see here? You Can Learn How To Build! I was visiting a business the other day and there was some construction going on. Some new rooms were being built, complete with a second floor […]