Improving productivity in construction, Built Environment Matters podcast with Josh Johnson, Expert - Engineering Construction & Building Materials at McKinsey & Company. Part 1 of 2.

How to start a blog so you can work from home.

It definitely crosses my mind every time I walk over that spot.Someone died right there.. Now we know why that poor old farmer didn’t want that kitchen!.

Improving productivity in construction, Built Environment Matters podcast with Josh Johnson, Expert - Engineering Construction & Building Materials at McKinsey & Company. Part 1 of 2.

Thanks to my Father-in-law (but not really cause now I’m even more scared to be home alone) for sharing this story with me!This is one of those things that is totally unnecessary, but it’s an idea I just couldn’t get out of my brain, so I did it..I saw these monogrammed tissue box covers at Pottery Barn, probably last year sometime, and something about them just made me happy..This is my own version, made for Kennedy’s room.

Improving productivity in construction, Built Environment Matters podcast with Josh Johnson, Expert - Engineering Construction & Building Materials at McKinsey & Company. Part 1 of 2.

It’s a little different, and a little less perfect (of course), but it’s still the same basic idea..It started out as a plain wood tissue box cover from Dollarama that I was just going to paint white to cover up all those ugly bright boxes you get with your tissues.

Improving productivity in construction, Built Environment Matters podcast with Josh Johnson, Expert - Engineering Construction & Building Materials at McKinsey & Company. Part 1 of 2.

Then Kennedy saw it and wanted to paint it all kinds of crazy colors herself, so I let her.

Hey, it kept her busy for 20 minutes!Covered bridges and wind mills.

Train traveling through a rural area.Sunset over a cold, empty beach.

New homes under construction.Grain elevators.