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homepageYou know you want to fix up your home and you know it’s going to take more than a coat of paint, but where do you start?  There are so many books, magazines, TV shows, blogs and websites showing beautiful design ideas, but how do you know if you will be able to afford to incorporate the things you love into your home? How do you know who you can trust? Who should you talk to first? Will you need a designer, only a contractor or do you think you can do it yourself?

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18
JUN
2013

How Re-designing a Tiny Kitchen Can Dramatically Improve Your Quality of Life:Finale

It’s always exciting to plan a kitchen renovation and the day that the contractor comes is probably the last exciting day a homeowner will have until the last worker leaves the house for good!  Remodeling is a messy dirty business with drywall dust that gets into impossible...
11
JUN
2013

The Secret to a Tiny, but Functional Kitchen: part 2

A crummy kitchen layout is like a low level headache: It’s possible to live with it, but life is much happier when it’s made better.  Eliza Reed’s kitchen was a startlingly poor layout before I got started on a new design .  With the sink and counter being in one room and the...
04
JUN
2013

How Reconfiguring a Tiny Kitchen can Boost Your Home’s Value: Part 1

  One of the fascinating things about being a home designer,  is sneaking a peak into the interior of a client’s life and home and having the privilege of enhancing both.  When I’m called in to evaluate how we might be able to improve the function and aesthetics of a house,...
28
MAY
2013

Grounded: Why a Glass Floor is Not as Crazy as it Sounds

Glass Floors   I can’t imagine that there is anyone left who hasn’t seen or at least heard of glass tiles on the backsplash of a kitchen…     …or glass tiles on the walls of a bathroom…   When a new client asks about flooring materials for...
21
MAY
2013

Grounded: Part 4 in the Series on Residential Flooring, It’s a Cork Walk.

  A flooring material close to my heart is cork.  When I first decided to use cork in my own house 20 years ago, no one was using it and the contractor thought I was crazy! But I had a vision of a glossy, red cork floor.  Had I seen it anywhere? Nope.  But that’s what being...
15
MAY
2013

Grounded: 3rd part in a series on Flooring for the Home – Bamboo

I’ve never been in a bamboo forest, but I imagine a deeply lush, impossibly green thicket that is alive with tropical sounds and dripping with humidity.  I imagine pinpoints of sun penetrating the thick foliage above and fuzzy baby pandas feasting on the tender young shoots.  Of...
07
MAY
2013

Grounded: Part 2 in the Series on Residential Flooring

Many clients ask whether or not wood flooring is a practical choice for a kitchen floor. The answer is yes and no. How’s that for definitive? Like so many things in the home, so much depends on how you live and what your tolerance level is for certain materials. Wood floors have...
22
APR
2013

Grounded – Part 1 in the Series on Residential Flooring

Our feet are often ignored, neglected and underappreciated, but like the floors in our homes, they are the foundation upon which we stand to make our impression on the world.   Hardwood Residential flooring is the canvas that grounds every piece of furniture that will grace...
14
APR
2013

Introducing “Tales from the Trenches”

Welcome to Tales from the Trenches! A no-holds-barred, roll your sleeves up, dig-in-the-dirt blog about home design and renovation. This is where you’ll see my successes and challenges on job sites first hand. This blog is an off-shoot of the first book in my series: Renovation...

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Recent Blog Posts

How Re-designing a Tiny Kitchen Can Dramatically Improve Your Quality of Life:Finale

June 18, 2013

The Secret to a Tiny, but Functional Kitchen: part 2

June 11, 2013

How Reconfiguring a Tiny Kitchen can Boost Your Home's Value: Part 1

June 04, 2013
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