Sometimes it’s easy to get stuck in a rut and do a banister the same every time.  You can go and buy stock pieces off the shelf that will look nice, but it will also look like about every other banister you see out there.  These clients wanted something different for their home in the [...] Read More

A client of mine had just had a new screened-in porch added on to her home.  She asked me to add some trim around the outside to ‘dress it up a little’.  I was happy to help. I didn’t have to do much to make a dramatic effect from the basic porch design that I [...] Read More

My last article was a little depressing because I covered all the faults of this shower that was failing after only 5 years of life.  Let’s put that in the past and start putting the shower back together using a system to waterproof the shower and make sure the water goes down the drain instead of [...] Read More

Showers are one of the greatest challenges for a tile contractor.  Not only does it have to look great, but it has to work great and send the water down the drain where it’s supposed to go.  Some homeowners in East Nashville called me to add lots of tile to their bathroom, starting by removing [...] Read More

There are lots of things to consider before you tile a floor, such as whether the framing is adequate and the floor is flat and how it will transition to adjacent floor coverings.  This particular bathroom needed some help before I even started thinking about tile layout or grout colors.  It was sloped enough that you [...] Read More