Architect Charles Moore's design pulled the front of the house forward 3 feet and added a 6-foot-deep front porch bordered by tapered columns. Extending the house forward allowed Moore to move the living room to the other side of the house and add a foyer and an inglenook in its place.
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Remodeled during phase one of a whole-house project, this first-floor bathroom was designed to serve, during phase two, as the primary bath for guests and the owners' two young children. Separating the vanity from the bathing area, the shelf creates a partially enclosed space above the sink in...
Clients who sign on with George Strother's Castlerock Homes for what is typically a whole-house remodel do so with the stipulation that they vacate the premises for the duration of the project. Working on a house without anyone in it cuts costs and time, Strother says.
Bob Sturgeon started his company 17 years ago with a partner, but the partnership only lasted six months. "Thank God it wasn't six years," reflects Sturgeon, who built the business up from "basically handyman-type carpentry stuff" to a full-service remodeling company doing everything from window...
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Bob DeHaan was the only contractor who responded to a call about a leak. When Traci Polacco bought her Kalamazoo, Mich., house, she was already renting in the neighborhood. Bob DeHaan used Chief Architect, a program he's used for seven years, to create the design on Traci Polacco's house.
For John Miller, co-owner of Waldenwood, Shorewood, Minn., the first upsell when it comes to roofing is a new roof for the whole house when he's putting on an addition."If clients want asphalt, Robb suggests architectural asphalt, a product two to three times the thickness of ordinary shingles --...