Sharon Lee

Measure your space before installing a TV. Sure, you’ve pored through review articles for months learning everything there is to know about refresh rates and … Read more

Maybe you’ve been there: You fall in love with a certain couch online only to find that it take up the entire living room when … Read more

You know when you’ve been in a room with nothing in it? You stand there and just…something’s not right. Maybe it’s way too high or … Read more

Backlighting a bathroom mirror is such a common DIY project, it’s typically doomed on the first try: The LEDs aren’t dimmed properly; they’re too close … Read more

On paper, most room look great. In real life, they are an obstacle course. So you set up all the furnitures, center rug and admire … Read more

How many times have you bought a mantel without measuring? Then when you hang it, you notice. It doesn’t look like it fits the fireplace … Read more

Now, if you’re measuring for hanging hardware (like me), you’d normaly take your measurements from the outside edge of the wood. This leads to trouble … Read more

You see a light bulb in a package labeled “sixty watt equivalent.” Next to that is the package for a lamp shade which has sixty … Read more

The problem isn’t typically about taste; it’s about math. This means math, specificly light output versus physical obstruction. What looks like a bright fixture in … Read more

Did you also observe that the light is not as bright at one end compared to the other? That’s due to voltage drop and transformer … Read more