Month: March 2009
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On the cheap: Under Stair Closet to Playroom
Before our move to Austin last year, we spent a lot of effort decorating our nursery. In our new house, we decided to convert our under-stair closet into a playroom. If you’ve got a stairwell with a sharply slanted ceiling, you know what I’m talking about when I say the space as storage is virtually…
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Our first test
For those of us born in the eighties, fear like we’ve only read about in The Grapes of Wrath surrounds us. As once-proud corporations daily whimper either out of existence or into the custody of government, fear spreads. Jobs disappear and what we all hoped in September was a “market correction” proves not to be…