As any little kid with a bag of Lincoln Logs will tell you, destruction can be as much fun as creation. In adulthood, we just don’t get to indulge in this primal pleasure that often. (When’s the last time you burst open a piñata or smashed up a Play-Doh village?) It’s that self-same destruction high…
It may be unoriginal to compare the first five years of a person’s life with the last five years, but that’s because there is some truth to the comparison. For ages, some basic parallels have been drawn by people who have cared both for their babies and for their aging parents. They know, twice over,…
There’s an old saying among remodelers: Walls are built to cover the misdeeds of those who came before us. Okay, that’s not an old saying—we just made it up—but it should be. During tear-out remodels, we just so often find that the homeowners’ walls have been hiding mistakes left by previous contractors. Some of these…
Ahhh, Houzz, the place where people in the market for remodeling go to covet and swoon. If you haven’t checked it out, grab a glass of water before you do, lest you drool yourself dry. Photographs of incredible interiors abound on Houzz—from homeowners, designers, and contractors alike—making it a great place to start if you’re…
Lyndon B. Johnson once said that every man has a right to a Saturday night bath. Kind of an odd statement, since baths—not showers—were still the primary way people bathed during most of Johnson’s life. (You’d think showers would be the luxury.) Today, baths really have become the special, occasional treat Johnson made them out…