This week’s Let’s Blog Off title is If you can’t afford the tip, you can’t afford the meal and the topic is Price vs. Value, or “what are we willing to pay for products and services, and what do we expect to get in return?” Like all small businesses, it’s something we think about [...]
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In Florida, we don’t always need a full garage to protect our vehicles. We prefer to keep our cars out of the sun and rain, but since we don’t deal with snow, walls are nice, but not required. Therefore, many homes built after the 1920s, when cars became commonplace, have integral carports as part of [...]
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My topic at the recent Historic Homes Workshop in St. Petersburg was on choosing exterior paint colors for historic Florida homes (it seemed more fitting to the theme of the workshop than “History of Outbuildings”). Below is the slide presentation that was used as a background for the talk. Unfortunately it doesn’t have my [...]
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My husband loves to tell everyone and anyone that I am not a great cook. It’s part of his regular humor routine. I always go along with the jokes because quite honestly I don’t try particularly hard at the task; I would gladly defer all meal making to local pizza parlors, take-out restaurants and any [...]
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When I was a child my mother bought a “School Memories” book that allowed you to record specifics for each school year. There were spaces for teacher’s names, student height and weight, and a place for the annual school photo – wallet sized. There were also places where you wrote your favorite food, favorite subject, [...]
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Stores have already had Christmas trees on display for couple of weeks – and Halloween is barely passed – so we know the pressure of holiday preparations is about to start. Unlike many small businesses, the holiday season isn’t a big push time here at Historic Shed. It’s rare that someone buys a shed as [...]
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We were pleasantly surprised to see our Historic Shed designed and built cottage featured this week on the popular Tiny House Blog website. Kent Griswold, who runs the site, was gracious enough to not only publish the web story about the cottage, but also the video showing its construction and [...]
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Our ten-year old son made this video for us. We’re rather proud!
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This week’s Let’s Blog Off topic is “What is Home”? It seemed a simple topic when I first read it; I’ve designed and renovated houses for a living for over 15 years now. But then I realized that I work on “houses”, but am unable to magically transform them into “homes” no [...]
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