Crazy days. Vastly underestimated the work required for this move and the creation of our vision of a modern coastal condo. Missed by a long, long ways. As a result, I completely stopped writing till now. No blog, no Medium articles, no book progress. So here we are closing in on 30 days… with one…
June 21st: Four days away
Crazy times with closing on our brand new home just four days away. So much to do… and yet always time to relax at the beach. Unusually cool today with 64 degree temps. Also a red flag day. A welcome change.
June 14th: LoveSac article coming
I am writing an article on Medium about LoveSac, the company and my experience with their products. I was just going to write about their sactionals, but they have made that difficult. After almost a month, the company that claims to be able to ship most of their products in a few days, finally delivered…
June 12th: Help Wanted!
Need a job? It was a bitter cold winter day… at least by St Louis standards. An incredible line of people queued up, hoping against hope to land a job with General Electric. To work remanufacturing huge train locomotive traction motors. Three hundred people in line that day, for two or three jobs. My coworker…
June 2nd: A Box of Rocks
Beauty and a box of rocks. It was an afterthought. We had our design choices…. big and small… almost all locked down at our design meeting back last September. We only had the shower floor tile yet to go. Our designer said, “What about these rocks?” “We can make a floor out of these?” “Sure,…
May 24th: Forty Years!
Born To Run 1975… Bruce Springsteen released “Born to Run”. Lori and I met in high school and went on our first date. A year later, I went off to college. “Home Town Honeys” never last. Everyone knew that… but us. A year after graduating from little Coe College, I returned at the end of…
May 3rd: Tudor Ice!
Taking a peek into our new home to be, we found the final paint cans staged in the second bedroom. Exciting times! For most of our rooms, we chose Tudor Ice. It is an historic paint from the Federal Period of 1780 – 1830. A time when the federal republic of the United Sates was…
May 1st: Twenty-three windows
“Why don’t we just call Budget Blinds and have them quote window treatments for our condo?” I asked my wife. “That’s a lot of windows, the cost would be enormous,” my wise wife replied. We had previously had Budget Blinds put some roller shades in the apartment we have occupied the past three years. Spent…
April 26th: The wall
Condo, villa, townhouse, duplex, house… all these words that can mean different things. We knew we wanted more space, privacy, a great neighborhood, brand new construction, maintenance free-ish living, and our own design touches. But what exactly would our new home look like? The same as a freestanding house… or one with a shared…
April 25th: The other side of the channel
A kindred spirit provided my haircut this week. Maybe all of twenty years old, she did a great job. She had a lot to work with… my hair was crazy long. But the kindred part was our discussion of Grand Haven. She was born and raised here. We talked about all the great things to…