Home Improvement Projects at a Country Home in Verona, WI
Our bedroom furniture has been delivered and installed, along with a Casper mattress and an electric fireplace under the windows to complete the look. The result is a massive improvement: Continue reading Bedroom Furniture and Fireplace
I’m excited to have purchased a new bedroom set from Restoration Hardware, along with a mattress from Casper, for our master bedroom. For a long time we’ve had mix and match furniture in that room, but now it will have a beautiful complete set from RH’s Montpellier collection. Continue reading New Master Bedroom Set
A year ago, I did a full remodel of the bathroom off of our kitchen, on the middle floor of our house. It went from looking like this: To this: This year, I wanted to improve and modernize the look of our four other bathrooms, without doing a full remodel. These bathrooms had been repainted … Continue reading Upgrading Tacky 90’s Bathroom Fixtures
While writing custom Alexa skills has been necessary for some of the hyper-specific home automation tasks I’ve wanted to do, there are often much more straightforward ways to integrate different smart home platforms. The best of these is IFTTT, which stands for if this, then that. It allows you utilize pre-built (or create new) applets, … Continue reading Integrating Arlo, Wemo, and Echo via IFTTT
Over the last several weeks, I have been adding various home automation technologies to the house: Arlo for home security, Wemo and Lutron Caseta for automated lighting, and Amazon Echo/Alexa for voice control. Out of the box, Alexa’s integration with other smart home technologies is pretty good. It doesn’t take any custom work to be … Continue reading Custom Alexa Skill for Tracking Car Use
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