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Sex and bathroom remodeling.
August 3, 2009 – 4:28 pm | 3 Comments
Sex and bathroom remodeling.

SEX, and your new bathroom.
If you’re looking for a Kama Sutra guide to remodeling, this isn’t going to be it, but sex is important when remodeling, and why is that? Well, who is going to get their wish list satisfied from this bath makeover? A man, a women a family of four?

Pro Spotlight, MJ’s Contract Appliance.
August 3, 2009 – 11:50 am | One Comment
Pro Spotlight, MJ’s Contract Appliance.

Mary Jean Dupuis was 5 months pregnant with daughter Monique and leaving her job at Mogul Corporation, a sales position she had held for a while. Her husband was a residential electrician selling residential air conditioners and through a meeting with the GE rep was asked if she would consider selling GE appliances to builders. Mary Jean resisted this opportunity for about a year, and then accepted the offer and began calling on local builders and selling appliance packages for newly built homes.

When your remodel doesn’t feel right.
August 3, 2009 – 7:33 am | No Comment
When your remodel doesn’t feel right.

You thought you did all the right things before you hired a contractor, but now you have a problem. It starts out simple enough; something a bit queasy sets up in your stomach. You know, the little feeling that says something is wrong here. It then progresses to the point where you KNOW something is wrong but you don’t know exactly what it is. From there, everything looks bad and every day brings new concerns. That is if the contractor is still around.

Remodeling has its moments.
August 1, 2009 – 7:31 pm | No Comment
Remodeling has its moments.

Ferdinand never missed dinner, but on this day as the tidbits can was opened enveloping the job site in an odorous miasma of tuna parts, an event that ensured Ferdinand would pick up the pace on his way to the food bowl, he was nowhere to be seen. A shock to Deborah, our customer and Ferdinand’s mistress. Already Deborah was fearing the worst.