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A Thank You Note to Subscribers – Full Content Restored

June 4, 2011

Do you get RemodelingGuy.net in a feed reader or in your email? If so, then this post is for you. I subscribe to my own blog feed. It’s not that I just need to read my post at least one more time (I usually read through them at least twice before posting), it’s more to [...]

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10 Ways to Keep The Inspiration Alive

May 28, 2011

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 [...]

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Island Escape

February 14, 2011

You wonderful regular readers (you know who you are!) are probably wondering if I’ve gone on another blogging hiatus! Not intentionally. Sometimes it’s just a time thing. Then I see this… See how simple life can be. No insulation, no A/C, heck I don’t even think there is glass in the windows! That’s simple. The [...]

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15 Ways Remodeling Equals a Better Life

November 12, 2010

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 [...]

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After Good Night’s Rest – Don’t Forget the Mattress

October 7, 2010

One thing about babies, of any species, is that they sure know how to sleep. And they aren’t really selective about where either. I, on the other hand am more selective! For me to truly sleep like a baby I’ve got a whole checklist! Quiet, but with a little bit of static background noise (to [...]

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Perfection Is More Important in Design Than Execution

February 6, 2010

Just thinking out loud here: Excellence in design is more to be desired than is excellence in execution of that design. If you can have both, great… that’s the best. But if you can only have one, make sure the design is spot on. Someone asked me a question the other day about a paint [...]

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Something Tiny To Control

January 24, 2010

I read a blog the other day, and I can’t remember where it was, but there was a tag-line that went like this: Sometimes I sit and think, Sometimes I just sit. I thought that was kind of cute and kind of true too! I think a ton. Too much probably. I wonder if that’s [...]

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Prayers For Haiti

January 13, 2010

I woke up this morning, and as I usually do, I checked the weather. lately I’ve been praying that weather.com would tell me that today would be the day it finally warmed up! But the news this morning brought tears to my eyes. The videos of the devastation in Haiti are impossible to describe. The [...]

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Why Are You Here? Because You’re a Bad Mamajama!

January 10, 2010

That’s right! A Dragonslayer. A Knight-In-Shining-Armor! YOU are the hero that will save your home from a plain, pale, dull, ugly, and boring fate! A future devoid of color. A future where the Princess (or Prince, if your house is a he) wears no Crown Molding. In your tireless dedication to your quest, you scour [...]

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Small Houses and Green Living

January 7, 2010

My wife and sons must have inherited my fondness for small spaces. Or, maybe traveling the country in a motorhome taught us all to love the comfort of close quarters together. Or could it have been the move from 3000sf down to 1000sf that did it? Whatever the reason, for us, small houses are better. [...]

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Being Resolutely Grateful in 2010

January 1, 2010

Happy New Year! I’m excited about the coming year and I don’t think I’ll be looking back with longing on the one that has just passed-by. Glad to have ’09 in the rearview. It is a new day. A new year. A new decade. Isn’t it just the same as the beginning of a week, [...]

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Oh My Gourd!

November 5, 2009

This is more of a home improvement blog. I was given orders a long time ago to stay away from the “decorator-ey” stuff. I guess somebody was scared I’d take over! But, despite my efforts at hiding my feminine side, sometimes I just have to run with it! Like now… Check out this GOURDjus flower [...]

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Home

October 30, 2009

I read this quote and it made me chuckle… Home is where you hang your head. – Groucho Marx Isn’t that the truth! But thankfully not all of the truth. For certain, if I’m feeling a bit less than my ideal “strong and sure” self, I can show it at home. But, on the flip-side, [...]

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Plan Ahead and Don’t Compromise

October 19, 2009

When I was a young’un I used to listen to motivational speakers whenever I got the chance. One of my favorites was Zig Ziglar. Thinking back, I wonder why I don’t listen to that as much now. It was very helpful! One of the many bits of advice I took from those, uh…tapes, was that [...]

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