Over the past decade or so, we’ve had droves of clients looking to have their cabinet vanities replaced with pedestal sinks. Pedestal sinks really have become an “it thing”, enough so that people are now beginning to ask us whether they’re just a passing fad that will make a home appear dated in no time.…
Which way do you orient your toilet paper on its roll? The Great Over vs. Under Debate has been around as long as toilet paper rolls have. It’s been the topic of dozens of legitimate sociological and marketing studies. It’s drawn the interest of engineers and inventors. And it’s even the subject of the last…
There was a time when automatic-flush toilets sounded as futuristic as flying cars. Now even the word high-tech has a less futuristic sound. High-tech has become the way most of us live our lives—using things like smart phones, GPS, and self-checkout kiosks. And as far as bathrooms go, automatic-flush toilets are far from the only…
It may be unoriginal to compare the first five years of a person’s life with the last five years, but that’s because there is some truth to the comparison. For ages, some basic parallels have been drawn by people who have cared both for their babies and for their aging parents. They know, twice over,…
There’s an old saying among remodelers: Walls are built to cover the misdeeds of those who came before us. Okay, that’s not an old saying—we just made it up—but it should be. During tear-out remodels, we just so often find that the homeowners’ walls have been hiding mistakes left by previous contractors. Some of these…