Sharon Lee

Your intuition is to measure width of the staircase, then take away width of furniture box. If the box fits inside, it’ll go! That makes … Read more

Don’t Measure Your Ceiling Like You Do Your Floor I see so many folks pick up a tape measure and run it along their walls. … Read more

When you unroll that first piece of flooring and discover that the room isn’t a perfect rectangle, there’s a particular sort of panic that sets … Read more

The drum lacks air (or rather, it isnt full of it). You throw in your king comforter and see the thing struggling to tumble. It’s … Read more

Maybe your floor plan isn’t actualy like your apartment at all. Maybe it’s an L-shaped room, but you’re used to working in rectangle. That creates … Read more

Measuring the Room Wrong: Most folks overbuy because they can’t wrap their heads around how much trim goes in a room. Forgetting Wood Isn’t Infinite: … Read more

You can’t use a floor plan square foot measurement to determine how many gallons of paint you will need. A floor plan doesn’t take into … Read more

Scale isn’t a ratio. It’s a contract between the room and the paper. And that contract are easily broken by a rush PDF save or … Read more

Most folks hang their artwork at eye level. But that’s usually too low! Eye-level for standing grownups isn’t always in the middle of room because … Read more

Speaker location tends to be an exercise in guesswork by most, as if it’s a geometry issue. “How far should I have that from the … Read more