Category Archives: Household

Roofing drawings and modeling using Google Sketchup

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Today I started the order for some new roofing for our house. Here are some of the drawings I made in Google Sketchup. These were what I used for calculating how much roofing to order: Top view: Overall, Sketchup made it nice and easy to produce “good enough” drawings for my purposes :-). Top Search Terms:roofing drawings (25)roof drawings (21)sketchup roof (21)house roof (18)google sketchup roof (17)house drawing top view (14)top view of house (12)google sketchup roofing (12)top view of

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Projects this weekend

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This was a wonderful weekend at home. I worked on some fun projects and did some “business” work. Samantha played with some new toys (stroller, etc.) and cooked some delicious delights. Also, before the weekend got here, we had a lot of fun going out to eat with my mom and dad to celebrate my dad’s birthday! Even before that, we had a great Valentine’s day (which I still need to post an entry about…) But now back to the

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Alternatives to Drywall

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We’re planning on turning my office into the baby’s room. That means a couple things: #1 I need to find a new place to work, and #2 we need to redo the room to be more appropriate for a baby. Samantha already has a plan for #2, we’re putting in new carpeting and we’re going to paint the existing wood paneling. UPDATE: here’s the result of the painting over the wood-paneling 🙂 My new office is still up in the

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