One of the popular trends in bathrooms is using furniture style vanities. Using a piece of furniture as the vanity base can give your bathroom a unique and warm feel. You can use an existing …

We’ve finally settled on a chair rail for the baby’s nursery. In a previous post I shared a similar chair rail design that we liked. All I did was to make the proportions a little …

One of the things we want to do in the nursery is to install a chair rail. By installing the chair rail we can paint the room with two colors, one color above and one …

Installing a high efficiency gas fireplace is a great way to add supplemental heat and an attractive aesthetic feature to your home. Vented gas fireplaces can operate up to 90% efficient, meaning for every dollar …

Custom Colonial Style Mantel
I finally finished painting the custom colonial style mantel today and I’m very pleased with the results. As you can see the finished product looks just like the rendering I did back …

Today I installed the mantel shelf and the only thing left now is sanding, priming and painting. The mantel shelf is made out of a piece of 1×12 FJP ripped down to 10 1/4″ wide. …

Well I had every intention on finishing the mantel this weekend……not going to happen. I did finish all the mouldings today and all that remains is the 5/4 finished shelf.
I was going to start …

One of my favorite features of our new home is the master bathroom suite. Anyone that knows me might find this odd and even think I’d say the utility room, garage or basement, but the …