It’s a magnificent sight … hardened steel … pointing to the sky like it was meant to do. The steel erection has begun …
Zen and I visited the building site just before sunset and it was my luck the batteries in the point-n-shoot were dead. Fortunately, deep down, I am a geek. [...]

I’m fixing a hole where the rain gets in
Stops my mind from wandering
- Beatles
I kept hearing this song run through my head as the roof line of the farmhouse takes shape. To use the imagery of Mary in Brazil; “replaying in my head, slowing down, looping, sampling the really bothersome parts and putting it all [...]

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I went tile shopping this weekend and found out that the Kerdi material used for tanking a wetroom is available locally. So, I decided I’d do some research and found the website that has a great instructional video …

I truly believe the marketing guys were either having way too much fun making the instructional [...]

I have been researching various lock solutions for exterior doors. The motivating factors are to make it easy for the right people to get in even when their hands may be partially full and be ADA compliant and require less than perfect dexterity.
Anyone who has followed my musings, knows that fingerprint readers are [...]

What do you get when you add… B0200LN + 069X + BWH4 * 2

The steel work continues with some interesting views of how geometry is leveraged in the skeleton of the building. The building is rated to 115 mph wind load which puts it in the range of a category 3 hurricane. (I hope to never test that fact.) To achieve the strength and still require no internal [...]

While this is not the door to no-where, it is a pretty humorous point in the construction. The doors are in but there are no walls! I arrived on site this morning to go over a recent change (more on that in a moment). When I arrived, they had two of the three pedestrian [...]

Google made quick work of this “what’s it” - so much so I had to edit Roy’s nearly instantaneous post to hid the answer. You may recall I am designing the closest think to a “private commercial” kitchen as I can and still have it feel like a home. The post about the pre-rinse [...]