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Update Your Shower To Suit Your Needs
As your needs change over time it is important that your home change too. Embarking on a shower update project can provide you with an opportunity to create an entirely different experience in a room you spend time in every day. Shower time is your time, enjoy it!...
Smart Tips for Exterior Painting of Your House
Exterior paint is the first thing that people notice about your home. Exterior paint makes a strong visual impact and reflects the identity of your home. A supreme exterior paint enriches personality of the house and also of its residents while a shoddy exterior paint...
Change The Footprint Of Your Bathroom To Gain Space
You can change the footprint of your bathroom (preferably when you have a wood floor rather than concrete). What I mean is maybe it would serve you well to move the toilet, as seen in this photo, so you can create recessed shelving to hold knickknacks etc. Often times...
Go Big
With a little creativity, you can expand that small shower, especially on the second floor of a home. Second story floors are usually wood and you can move the toilet and shower drain, allowing both to be relocated. This allows you to clear the playing field, giving...
Open Up That Tiny Shower
When you get into your shower do you feel like you are stepping into a tomb? Do you feel that because your bathroom is already small there is nothing you can do about it? Rarely is this true; most walls are still 8 feet tall and most bathrooms are still 5 feet wide...
Dress Up That Laundry Room
Assuming you have more space than just a washer and dryer sitting next to each other or stacked on top in a closet, you may want to consider dressing it up a touch. You can actually paint your laundry room and maybe even add an accent wall or pictures. The point is...
Start with a focal point (Bathroom and Kitchen remodels)
Having done hundreds of kitchen and bathroom remodels I know how hard it is for clients to get their initial color scheme going. Let me make it easy: start with a focal point which is the main eye catcher in this given area. With bathrooms it is good to start with a...
Add a New Bathroom
Adding a bathroom is not as hard as you think; all we need is a bathroom in the general area above, beside or below. We just took an oversized dining room and sitting area and ran a 1/2 bathroom off a backwall using only a 3' by 7' area. We have put bathrooms in...

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