Design and Designers

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    Additions: "Roots Music"

    This organically inspired addition and renovation of a wedge-shaped, brick-faced 1970s home melds with its environment.

     
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    Old-House Renovation: "Squarely Historic"

    A classic foursquare undergoes a dramatic restoration and expansion that is consistent from room to room throughout the house.

     
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    Old-House Renovation: "New Victorian"

    Central to the gut remodel of a stick-style Carpenter Gothic Victorian home is the overhaul of the kitchen to create a bold-colored space with work zones for multiple cooks.

     
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    Adding Natural Light to Enhance Your Design

    Natural light can enhance a home and lift the spirits of its inhabitants. Architect Michael Klement discusses some factors to consider when designing with natural light.

     
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    A Floor Window Captures the View Below

    To capture the view of a stream, the architect of this remodel designed a glass floor that hovers above the water feature.

     
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    From Nondescript Ranch to Object of Beauty

    Art-world connections help transform a nondescript ranch into an object of beauty.

     
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    Low-Voltage Lighting

    Under cabinets, on toe kicks or tray ceilings, directed at artwork, or tucked in the garden, low-voltage lights such as MR-16s can make plain spaces pop.

     
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    Floor Level Changes Enhance Spatial Experience

    In the last couple of decades we’ve become more sensitive to the challenges posed by steps to those who are mobility impaired, but there are still many situations in which a change of level is desirable to create a particular spatial effect.

     
  • REMODELING Names the Year's Top Remodeling Projects

    From a modern kitchen that appears to have been surgically inserted into a Carpenter Gothic Victorian home in San Diego to a whimsical and sophisticated enclosed porch veranda on a home in North Carolina, 21 residential and light commercial remodeling projects have been honored as winners of the...

     
  • Color and Patterns

    Remodelers that know the basis of good design can better serve their clients.