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Tips on Hardwood Flooring
Hardwood Flooring Options Prefinished plank flooring has the finish applied at the factory prior to installation. There’s no dust from sanding, no fumes from chemicals, and no waiting for the finish to dry. These floors are warranted to last longer than … Continue reading
Green Lighting Measures for the Home: Effectively Using Daylight
Natural illumination is still the best type of lighting system. As humans we instinctively prefer natural light to electric light. There have been many studies done which show that natural lighting has a positive impact on well being and productivity (http://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy02osti/30769.pdf). So how about having these … Continue reading
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Tagged daylighting, design, design build firm, design tip, energy efficiency, green lighting, home remodel, home remodeler, home remodeling, improvement, light shelf, light tube, maryland design build firm, natural illumination, northern virginia, solar tube, summit design remodeling, windows
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Add Interest with These Bathroom Flooring Choices
When it comes to flooring choices these days, you have hundreds of choices – carpet, tile, wood, laminate, linoleum and stone … just to name a few. And when it comes to installing a new floor in your bathroom, you … Continue reading
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Tagged bamboo and cork floor, bathroom design, bathroom floor, bathroom remodeling, design, design build firm, design tip, fairfax station bathroom, glass tile, great falls bathroom remodeling, home remodel, home remodeler, home remodeling, marble tile, mclean bathroom, modular carpeting, northern virginia bathroom remodeling, summit design remodeling, tile, tile floor, vienna virginia bathroom remodeling, wood floor
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Pros and Cons of Different Cooking Technologies for Your Next Kitchen Remodel
When remodeling a kitchen, homeowners must make what seems like an endless number of decisions. Some of those decisions will often include choosing new appliances. In the old days it was pretty simple to choose your cooking appliances – electric … Continue reading
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Tagged appliance, convection, cooktop, duel fuel, halogen, induction, kitchen, kitchen remodeling, maryland, microwave, montgomery county, northern virgnia, oven, range, remodeling, summit design remodeling, trivection
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Bringing Light into Your Remodeling Project
With summer coming to an end and fall fast approaching, we are often asked by clients how to bring more light into a home. The easiest solution would be to add recessed lights or sconces, or even paint the interior … Continue reading
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Tagged daylighting, fairfax, home remodeler, home remodeling, Low E, maryland, maryland design build firm, md, olney, Pella, skylight, summit design remodeling, sun tunnel, va, Velux, virginia, window
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Design Tip – Hiding Cords & Cables with an AV Cabinet
When you are planning your next remodeling project, it’s a great time to look at your existing space and decide what can be done to have more organization and a cleaner, neater look. One of our recent clients in Reston, … Continue reading
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Tagged AV Cabinet, design build firm, design tip, fireplace, home remodeler, home remodeling, maryland, maryland design build firm, Northern, northern virgnia, Reston, va, virginia
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Factors to Consider When Buying Cabinets – Part 3
It’s a common sentiment with many of our remodeling clients that they think they don’t have enough storage space in their kitchen. I hear it all the time. In some cases this is very true. But sometimes the problem … Continue reading
Interior Trim – A Missed Opportunity
In home remodeling, homeowners have a great opportunity to really change the feel of a room. Many times the person with an untrained eye will look at a room and know they like it, but can’t put a finger on … Continue reading
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Factors to Consider When Buying Cabinets – Part 2
corner & I-beam bracing This the second blog in a series about how to recognize a quality cabinet when you see one. In the last cabinet blog, I discussed some common materials used to make cabinets and some of … Continue reading
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Factors to Consider When Buying Cabinets
I was in a local kitchen and bath showroom a while back and remember a man looking at some cabinets on display and commenting on how high quality they were. I happened to know from pricing the various lines in that showroom … Continue reading
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