Exterior Painting: Overcoming Too Much of a Good Thing

It’s not unusual for me to meet people who don’t know how to go about choosing exterior paint colors, so they just paint the siding and trim in their favorite colors. This house in Tryon, NC was different. The former owners had tried diligently to work...

Roger’s Winter Project

Lately Roger has used most of his spare time to work on the large project of refinishing all the natural wood in our house, including doors and casings, windows and casings, fireplace mantles, stairs, baseboards, cabinets, etc. The house is only ten years old and very...