Design and Designers

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    Hiring a Professional Photographer

    A picture is worth a thousand words, so when it comes to marketing your work, take the time and money to hire a professional photographer to create a picture that really helps potential clients understand your company’s strengths.

     
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    Phoenix Bungalow Remodel

    Historic charm meets modern architecture in the remodel of a Phoenix bungalow.

     
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    Evaluating Existing Kitchen Use Patterns to Inform Your Design

    Evaluate existing kitchens by observing how your clients use the space.

     
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    Designing Outdoor Rooms

    Most people conceive of an outdoor room as a porch, screened or not, attached to the house. If just one side is open to the elements, it hardly feels like outdoors at all. Three open sides and we really start to feel the connection with our surroundings. We are projected out into the landscape, but...

     
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    Custom details for bathroom designs

    The bathroom has undergone an overhaul in recent years. No longer just a water closet with a sink and tub, it has become a spa and sanctuary at every price point. Skylights and glass block for increased natural light, the use of varied textures and materials and sturdy furnishings, organic lines...

     
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    Special touches to kitchen designs

    Clever, beautiful details add a personal touch to kitchens and allow homeowners to create a space that exactly fits their needs.

     
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    Feature story on engineering the customer experience

    Part one in a three-part series on engineering the customer experience.

     
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    Designing a half-bath into your remodeling job

    When remodelling a house it's almost always possible to fit in a new half bath — meaning a toilet and a sink. The real variable is the degree of convenience one can achieve when locating the new facilities in the space allowed.

     
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    Tropical Walk

    Zoning laws made it necessary for the owners of this Canandaigua, N.Y., lake-front home to amend their plans for a proposed outdoor swimming pool and make it an indoor pool. To fit the pool on the site, local remodeler Cutri Construction had to locate it in the rear yard, and then connect it to the...

     
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    High quality exterior products

    Structure on the Side | Stainless Storage | Set in Stone | Exotics Underfoot . . .