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After already having worked with the builder on several renovations, the homeowners were finally ready to remodel their kitchen. For a small galley kitchen, you walk into it from the entry mudroom and it feels spacious, warm . . .
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The original space was heated with tongue and groove wood on the walls. The carpeting had been there for approximately twenty years and had some serious pet odor. To create a fun and liveable space for kids to play and guests to visit . . .
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I always love photographing fireplaces because sitting by a fire inside and outside at my own home is one of my favorite things to do. It’s not always easy to shoot a double-sided fireplace and show the connection to all of the rooms. Here, I was able . . .
Taunton’s: Kitchen Ideas That Work
Cabinets with face frames–strips of finished wood that attach to the front of a cabinet–are the standard in many American homes. Frameless cabinets are relatively new to this market . . .
Fine Homebuilding: Roof Over Roof
My rustic 1930s post-and-beam home in Vermont had a definite roof problem: It was poorly insulated and susceptible to ice dams. But when I started working on a design for upgrading the insulation, I wasn’t . .
Journal of Light Construction
A few projects ago, we framed the first and second floors of an octagonal house using precut framing package that included I-joists, LVL beams, and LSL rim joists. Even though that project . . .
Creative Homeowner: Ceramic & Stone Tiling
There are several types of ceramic tile and many ways to categorize them. The built-in properties can make one better than another for a particular installation.
Finehomebuilding.com August 2015
The homeowners needed a bathroom to accommodate three small, growing children. Instead of having clunky step stools in the kid’s bathroom, they tossed around the idea about making a custom step stool . . .
Vermont B/A
“We just listened to them, to try to find out what they wanted to do,” says Chris diStefano, owner of diStafano Landscaping, Inc. in Jericho. “We walked the property with them. It was a raw piece of land. They . . .