by Ethan Hagan () | February 9, 2012 |  Print This Post

Were following professional contractor Steve Wartman as he walks us through the process of building a deck. In the first installment of this series, we covered planning, digging, and pouring concrete footers, as well as securing the ledger board to the house. Todays article covers setting two rows of piers, running support beams between the piers, and installing the joists.

Since we left off, the local building inspector came to the work site to inspect the footers. I

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My three garage doors were not insulated. Never a problem until last year when I converted bay 3 into the Man Cave wood shop and started spending much time out here. I dont even remember what the back porch looks like. My dogs miss me terribly. They bark at me before they remember me.

I went to the BORG and the BBRG looking for garage door insulation whatever. They had some Owens Corning bag of flimsy, etc.

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Apple lovers know that the accessories that enhance the user experience of their gadgets really make a big difference. There are tons of designers and companies out there that are keep coming up with the craziest ideas to fuel these Apple desires.

Today we are going to present another designer masterpiece from the Apple gadgets palette. New York based designer, Matt Richmond fused two technologies from two different centuries into something really cool and created a portable iPad speaker.

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Okay…here it is. Drumroll please…

The front cover and the back cover of the COZY 2012 Catalog featuring all of our pillows, throws, drapery, new tabletop, candles and more! (just a note…there is not a black border around the edge…this is just the way I had to crop the PDF file…)

Thank you so much for weighing in and deciding for me.  I counted up all of your comments from yesterday’s post and this cover image won hands down.  I actually had a totally different image selected for the catalog…a light blue arrangement on the sofa…but after reading your comments, I changed it early this morning and fab graphics designer EF was standing by to make the switch! < Read full article…