Feb 25
Design Studio Update
In: Life's Design Tagged: design studio, the Shop 1 commentThe smell of pine is in the air, as the boards go on the wall, one by one. The transformation is amazing. The ceiling is in, painted and the lighting is up. My new front door is in and just waiting for an open sign. J and M started putting up the tongue and groove [...]
READ MORE »Feb 16
Design Studio Beginning to Take Shape
In: Life's Design Tagged: the ShopSince I finished tearing out the insulation, changes have been happening very quickly at the shop. J and M have rewired the whole building, replaced a few boards, pulled out the old windows, replaced the front ones with shiny, clean new ones and boarded the back wall up. They have now started putting in new [...]
READ MORE »Feb 09
Interior Shop Demolition is Done!
In: Life's Design Tagged: the ShopThis past weekend I hit the turn-around point in the shop renovations. I finished pulling out the rest of the insulation from the walls and J helped to remove a lot of the stuff that was still cluttering the floor. He and a friend of ours has begun the rewiring, to be finished tomorrow. Their [...]
READ MORE »Jan 31
Design Studio Update
In: Life's Design Tagged: design studio, the Shop 2 commentsLife has been pretty busy lately, so I hadn’t initially planned to get any work done on the shop this weekend. Surprisingly, however, I ended up spending a few hours both yesterday and today wreaking havoc on the interior. Demolition is fun! I stripped the ceiling of panels and began removing insulation from the walls. [...]
READ MORE »Jan 03
Big step forward in Shop renovation
In: Life's DesignI spent the first two days of the New Year working towards getting my design studio renovated. January 1 my father came in and helped me remove the large bench on the front wall. We quickly found out that my grandfather was not afraid to use nails, screws and a combination of the two. After [...]
READ MORE »Dec 21
Window shopping
In: Life's Design Tagged: the ShopJ and I spent over an hour at our local hardware store wandering the aisles and pricing out my wish list for DbR’s Shop revitalization. We looked at windows and doors, flooring, cabinets, shelving units, lighting (inside and outside) and counter tops. The photos of the Shop may not look any different this week, but the [...]
READ MORE »Dec 09
Workshop to Printshop: Cleaning
In: Life's Design Tagged: the ShopI began the arduous task of cleaning out the Shop on Saturday. I wish I had taken pictures before I got started, because looking at the photos I shot aftwards, you might not be able to tell I accomplished anything at all. I plan on keeping a running update of pics and stuff from here [...]
READ MORE »Dec 04
A New Shop for DbR
In: Life's Design Tagged: the ShopI am so excited!! I have been working out of my living room for months now and my little corner has become very congested with my new printer and my increasing stock of paper and files. I am also looking into more equipment… but I’ll save that for another post. So to start from the “beginning”…
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Oct 11
Personalized Art
In: Design Time, Life's Design Tagged: art, image, paintingIt’s funny how things fall together sometimes. It wasn’t long after I wrote the post Van Gogh blue & red that I stumbled across an article about a unique company called DNA11. Based in Ottawa, Ontario, Adrian Salamunovic and Nazim Ahmed started DNA11 in 2005 out of Ahmed’s apartment. Using a simple cheek swab and specialized [...]
READ MORE »Sep 04
Brilliant White Branding
In: Life's Design Tagged: brand, color 3 commentsI do my grocery shopping a couple times a month; typically that means a trip to the local Walmart. Recently, with the economic downturn and the mass layoffs and shutdowns of businesses and local lumber mills, many are really feeling the pinch. My family is no exception. So, consequently I have been doing more generic [...]
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