Design

Imperfections Make it Perfect!

January 29, 2012

I was just browsing through some of the pictures on our newest blog, RemodelingTherapy.com, and this one made me stop and think for a minute… Of course my first thought was just how nice, comfortable, and relaxing of a space this is. It just looks like the kind of room you want to curl-up in [...]

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Using The Golden Ratio To Determine Paneling Height

October 26, 2011

Kim and I have recently started a new site all about remodeling and design ideas and pictures. This article was inspired by one of the images Kim found for the new blog – you can find it here: Beautiful Workspaces {Dreamy Desks}. This photo is one of those that I could write ten posts about. [...]

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Reclaimed Wood

October 4, 2011

There are a few things in home design that just totally rock my world, and this is one of them. Reclaimed or salvaged wood is one of those rare items that can achieve perfection on multiple fronts at the same time. First and foremost, it’s flat out beautiful Second, it’s about as green as you [...]

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Black Window and Door Trim

September 1, 2011

It’s no secret that I’m never the first kid on the block to like the newest look in shoe-laces. The same thing applies to paint colors and fancy embroidery on my butt. But it’s okay because these trends take awhile to really catch-on. Take the practice of painting your window sashes or window trim black, [...]

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Awesome DIY Headboard – Barnboard {Faux or Real}

August 2, 2011

Hunting for some early morning inspiration to go with my steaming coffee and my Red Hot Chili Peppers background track, I went on the prowl for some cool barnboard walls pictures. I was nonplussed, until I saw this: While most of the pictures I found were wall-to-wall barnboard, which was just way too much of [...]

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Paint Project Inspiration

July 1, 2011

Here’s the truth: You deserve the home of your dreams. You do. I’m totally serious and I’m talking to you. No if’s, and’s, or but’s about it. Write this on a little index card: “I live in the house of my dreams.” and read that out loud every day, like ten times in a row. [...]

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6 Creative Ways to Add A Splash of Color To Your Kitchen

June 27, 2011

Ask yourself, of all the kitchens you’ve ever graced with your presence, how many stand out in your memory as flat-out amazing? One, five? None!? The truth is that even beautiful, well-designed, and expertly crafted kitchens often aren’t outstanding enough to make them permanently memorable. Let’s put a stop to that right now! Here’s a [...]

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Get Stoned, Not Really – Using Fake Stone in Interior Design

June 9, 2011

I’m not sure which part of my title I should regret more… the part about getting “stoned” or the use of the word “fake”. Both are strict literary faux pas. (faux stone?) Anyway, here is the photograph that instigated all of this nonsense: This whole thing is really pretty close to perfect in my book. [...]

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Winder Up! — Space Saving Stair Designs

June 4, 2011

Everybody has a claim to fame. Sometimes they change, and I hope mine does, but here’s what it was back in the old days: I was the guy who could figure out how to add a second floor onto any house, even after other contractors said it couldn’t be done. There were usually two issues. [...]

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10 Ways to Keep The Inspiration Alive

May 28, 2011

Raise your hand if your home remodeling plans have taken longer than you expected. Plans to build a new home? Plans to redecorate? Now take a look around the room. Almost every hand in the room is up, a few of you with both hands up, and one lady trying to hold a foot up [...]

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Open Beam Ceilings and Great Color = Awesome Small Space

April 26, 2011

Yesterday, I wrote a post about a really great DIY Green Wall Vertical Garden Thingy that I ran across while chasing down a photo that caught my eye. This is that photo: This space really caught my eye because my family and I live in a tiny house of just under 1000sf, having downsized from [...]

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Amazing Swimming Pools

March 10, 2011

No WAY! When I saw this, I thought, and I quote: “You have GOT to be kidding me!” Once you’re done jaw-dropping at the pool, check out the curved block walls with colorful stucco, the sunburst pattern in the brick paver motor-court, the cool square paver-blocks with green grass between them (my neighbor has mastered [...]

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Terrazzo

February 24, 2011

When I was eleven years old, I spent my first full-time working week on a construction site. It was a fire job and I still remember that underneath the burned and soaked carpet, was a floor that looked to me like it was pretty nice. It was terrazzo flooring. And it was the first of [...]

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All These Years – Still In Love (Dream Kitchen)

January 12, 2011

I’ve been in-love with this kitchen for so long: I just can’t get it out of my mind. And this weekend, my water heater went south. Doesn’t everyone, when faced with a water heater replacement, say “Well, I guess we might as well just rip the kitchen on out and re-do it.”? I know I [...]

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