Here is why I hate fashion and design and anything to do with the overarching beauty industry. The seventies. Someone, or a select group of someones, decided, in the seventies, that brown was an attractive colour and should be plastered on highly visible items like clothing, cars, and houses. These same someones then decided to […]
Slow Mo Reno – Garage Grossness
If you don’t think it’s possible for a pandemic virus to evolve here, then you’ve never gutted a forty-five-year-old, mouse-infested garage before. Well, I just did. One very well could be gestating within my body as I right this. Our house, particularly the garage, was suspect from the moment we first laid eyes on it. […]
Slow Mo Reno – Making a Grand Entrance
Entry doors are unique and important parts of a home both functionally and aesthetically. A really nice door is damn near impossible to take your eyes off of. They are the first thing people notice about a house and they are often the first thing people touch, typically in a twisting fashion. Doors come in […]
Slow Mo Reno – Contracting a Sticker Shock
There are two groups of people in Calgary; those that work in the oil industry and those that renovate their homes. Sure, there are thousands of others who work in service industries and the civil service, but in two years’ time when the NDP is obliterated in the provincial election and the “new” conservatives dial […]
Slow Mo Reno – Designed to Fail
“You talk funny.” In retrospect, I should have shown her the door the moment those three words sprung from her pouty, Greco-Italian mouth like an upscale restaurant hostess’ over-stressed blouse button. I didn’t want to hire an interior designer but I felt obliged to do so. Considering the money we were willing ourselves to spend, […]