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Tips for Choosing a Home Contractor for Your Renovation
Home renovations mark an exciting change in your life but can become stressful fairly quickly. As costs add up and materials get delayed, it’s easy to lose sight of that joy you felt when picking out your design and imagining…
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Choosing Home Furniture Without Falling for Common Mistakes
Furniture shopping is where good intentions meet bad measurements. People fall in love with a piece in a showroom, where the ceilings are high and the floors are empty, and bring it home to a room that is neither. The…
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Bedroom Furniture and the Mattress You Will Throw Away Twice
The average mattress in an American bedroom is replaced every 7.6 years, and the old one goes to a landfill in 80 percent of cases. A mattress is a 60 pound object made of steel, foam, and fabric, and it…
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How to Choose the Perfect Home Decor for Your Business
Choosing the right home décor can have a major impact on how customers perceive your business. Whether you operate an interior design company, furniture store, property business, café, office, or home décor brand, the appearance of your space can influence…
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The Furnace That Fits Your Budget May Not Fit Your Mechanical Closet
How wide is the closet your furnace lives in? Most homeowners renovating a mid-century house can recite the tonnage, the AFUE rating and the rebate they are chasing, and not one interior dimension of the space the equipment actually has…
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Minimal Rooflines Punish Sloppy Flashing More Than Busy Ones
A steep gabled roof hides sloppy flashing. A steep gabled roof forgives the residential roofers Evansville IN homeowners hire in a hurry after a June storm. Mine does neither. The house is a 1958 ranch on the north side, two…
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Insert Windows Quietly Shrink The Light You Renovated For
The cheapest window quote in the stack is usually the one that takes the most from your rooms. Nobody writes that on the estimate. Insert replacement leaves the old frame sitting in the wall and sets a new unit inside…
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Clean Rooflines Concentrate Water Where The Details Meet
Twenty two squares of roof, and all of the trouble sat in about thirty linear feet of it. That is the usual shape of a leak call on a design led remodel: two skylight curbs and one shed dormer valley,…
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Three Shops Sent Back Three Different Curves From One Drawing
Most designers treat a dimensioned drawing as the final decision about shape. It is not. The drawing states intent, the shop delivers whatever its process can repeat, and the two agree only when somebody wrote down how much variation is…
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A Low Maintenance Yard Can Still Breed Mosquitoes All Summer
Less yard does not mean fewer mosquitoes. Homeowners who pull out the thirsty lawn and put in gravel paths, native grasses and a handful of containers usually expect the biting to leave with the sod, and then dusk on the…
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Standing Water Under A Rooftop Deck Is Never Just Water
The rain quits around four in SoDo, the light comes back, and the deck on a six-unit warehouse conversion looks exactly the way it was drawn: pavers set flat on pedestals, three planters, a bench nobody ever moves, a parapet…
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