Design
What is a fixed feature? When I refer to a fixed feature, I am talking about any element on the exterior of the home that…
Round-topped openings—typically just called an “arch”—come in two main styles: a “segmented arch” and an ellipse. A segmented arch, like this one from the Washington,…
Want to add some emphatic color to a room but a strong color in the whole space is too much? Or, conversely, not enough? Paint…
If you think about it, doors and fences have a lot in common: their appeal can be as much about what they keep out as…
When I first learned that we had the opportunity to help rebuild the historic Cunningham Park in Joplin, MO, just six months after the devastating…
I may be showing my age, but whenever I see patchwork I think about those charming Holly Hobby dolls from 25+ years ago. I loved those…
From the moment I saw the periodic table of fonts inside the cover, I knew that I’d love this charming book about fonts. I’m going…
Here’s one of the awesome things about design: it reinvents things. It takes the common and makes it uncommon. I’ve seen a lot of this…
When Mark and I heard that Extreme Makeover: Home Edition was planning to build 7 houses in 7 days in Joplin for families affected by…
Sometimes I feel like life is more like an avalanche than a skip through a field of daisies. Know what I mean? Here’s what I try to do:
Meal time is stress-time when you have little ones. Parents, you know the drill. And from their shorter perspective, we’re disrupting their special projects to…
Mark Clement, practical contractor for The Old House Web and host of MyFixItUpLife radio show, discusses the predominant roofing styles of homes across the…
