Today was a pink-on-pink day…
…as requested by my oldest and dearest friend, who I first met when I was sixteen days old.
She will tell you stories of our childhood wherein I bribed, beat, begged, and otherwise cajoled her into leaving her barbies at home and playing “army” in the cornfields and building additions to my treehouse. And [...]
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Posted in DIY Lessons, Paint on Apr 2nd, 2005
Step 1: Color
For swirls or any real “busy” design I like to keep the colors I use within a few shades of each other. (A good rule of thumb is to find a color you like on one of those little paint swatch cards and then go 2 or 3 shades lighter and duller…just trust [...]
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Posted in House Projects, Upstairs Bath on Apr 1st, 2005
Everyone in the construction industry around Northwest Ohio and Southeast Michigan just realized it was spring… There’ s no happy medium at the block plant, either we’re dead slow and everyone bitches about hours, or we’re trying to push out nineteen loads a day with only five trucks and no lift driver. Welcome to Spring, [...]
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