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Plant a Vertical Garden — Green Remodeling

April 25, 2011

If you’re like me, you’re easily distracted when looking at cool stuff online. That’s exactly what happened to me today. I was following the trail of a really cool interior design photo (next post!) and was sidetracked by this shot: I stopped because I had seen a planted wall recently at the Epcot Flower and [...]

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Six Easy DIY Bathroom Remodeling Ideas

April 21, 2011

Take a look at this cool bathroom: I see at least six great DIY bathroom remodeling ideas in this shot. 1. Easy DIY Paneling – This bathroom achieves a classy level of rustic with the white painted horizontal 1-by paneling. The great thing about paneling like this is that it can be installed right over [...]

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EPCOT International Flower Festival Pictures — Wow!

March 25, 2011

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 [...]

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Lawn Tractor Envy Disorder at Home Depot

March 21, 2011

Everything about the picture below is pretty much perfect. Perfect lawn. Perfect stone retaining wall. And perfectly clear that someone other than me is driving the tractor! Funny as that may be, it’s not exactly true. Until recently, I lived on about an acre of semi-rural property and I mowed it with a lawn tractor [...]

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20 DIY Projects in Your Future and Why

March 21, 2011

I read an article this weekend that says that on average, the national percentage of single family homes sitting vacant is 18%! Just two counties over from me, in the playground of the rich and famous otherwise known as Naples, Florida, the number is apparently 32%! The article just added another nail to the coffin [...]

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Amazing Swimming Pools

March 10, 2011

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 [...]

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Door Trim Ideas – Using Plain 1×6 Material

March 3, 2011

Take a look at this picture and tell me what you see: If you said “flooring” or “hardwood”, then you’re seeing exactly what you’re supposed to see as this photo was supplied in a press kit from Armstrong flooring. If you said “tables”, I’m right there with you because there are three cool tables in [...]

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Hand Scraped Hardwood Floors

March 3, 2011

I answered a question today over at the new Answers section of the site that had me asking thinking about just how many great looking wood flooring options there are today. Then, as I was finally making my way through some of the press kits I was given at the International Builders Show in January, [...]

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Do You Have A Question? I Have Answers!

February 25, 2011

I’ve always wanted to help as many people as possible with remodeling questions. But I’ve never found a system that works, until now! I tried a forum… too much work fighting spammers. I tried questions by email… too many emails and of no use to anyone else online. Let’s try this… RemodelingGuy.net/Answers There is a [...]

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DIY Coat Rack Shelf

February 25, 2011

If you’re looking for something to do with your wood scraps after a remodeling project, maybe consider this: I did a design with pretty detailed drawings you could use to make one of these and included it in a post last year. Here is what that one looked like: You can read the step-by-step instructions [...]

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Terrazzo

February 24, 2011

When I was eleven years old, I spent my first full-time working week on a construction site. It was a fire job and I still remember that underneath the burned and soaked carpet, was a floor that looked to me like it was pretty nice. It was terrazzo flooring. And it was the first of [...]

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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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Banquette Seating

February 2, 2011

Banquettes are hot! I wrote a post about a year ago called “Banquette, Booth, or Built-In?” and I’ve been noticing these when I see them ever since. And I’m seeing them a good bit. I’ve collected a few more photos to share and discuss all about nice banquette seating. Banquette Bump-Out If I were building [...]

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Five Ideas for Glue-Gun Remodeling

January 26, 2011

Say, did you remember to bring your air-compressor and nail-gun in from the garage today? You were going to use it for that trim you wanted to install on the back of the kitchen island. Remember? What Do You Mean You Don’t Have a Nail-Gun? Well that’s okay. All is not lost! But you’ll still [...]

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