I am Ga Ga for Googie
Date: July 28, 2022Can a Buildings Design and a Choice of Font Meet in Unison? Let’s go back to the early 50’s and 60’s to find out and …
Liking Lichen
Date: March 18, 2022It’s Fungi, it’s an Algae, it’s both but more importantly it isn’t Mold! I was recently challenged with a unique concern proposed by one of …
Talking Shop with J&B Wood Products
Date: January 29, 202227 Years of Quality Craftsmanship and it Shows I had the unique opportunity to stop by the shop of J&B Wood Products and watch owner …
Tips to Add and Keep the Heat
Date: December 29, 2021The Beautiful Brrr Well it is that time of year again where we are all reminded that we live in a very cold part of …
Bring down that wall… wait… don’t!
Date: October 28, 2021Umm… Nice Wall… For the past few weeks as I have been bouncing from virtual meeting to virtual meeting and cycling through my email updates …
Some Eye Candy
Date: July 28, 2021Join me on a quick tour to a couple of projects! As part of the Customer Service work that I do here at Lake Country …
Double, double toilets and troubles
Date: May 26, 2021Toilets… eww… Inspired by the recent 99% Invisible podcast Pipe Dreams, I decided to do a little more research to see if I could “flush” …
It’s my way or the skyway
Date: January 28, 2021BRRR! Inspired by my trips out to our garage to start up our vehicles during these frigid MN winter mornings and another interesting 99% Invisible …
2020 Handcrafted
Date: December 22, 2020Handcrafting a New Year For this last blog piece of 2020, I wanted to give a thank you specifically to all of our Carpenters for …
Financing Your Remodel
Date: September 25, 2020Contractors Advice At a recent team meeting we all discussed different things that we’re learning related to the building and remodeling world. One thing that …