Charles Miller worked as an editor forFine Homebuildingfor more than 30 years. After his retirement, he moved to California, but he remains on the masthead as an editor at large. As of 2017, he still illustrates and editsFHB’s “Tips & Techniques” department, and he appears online in many of our archivedThere’s a Better Wayvideo series. Before signing on with Fine Homebuilding in 1980, he was a builder in Berkeley, California. He still builds for fun — “My wife calls me an over-do-it-yourselfer,” he says.