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1981 Contemporary Home Rehab
This kitchen was part of a home rehab project in Oceanside, CA. The entire house was in the before condition when I purchased it. Afterwards the entire house was in the same condition as...
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Complete kitchen 100 Year Old Heritage Home
We wanted to create a kitchen that was state of the art but fit with the feel of our 100 year old home. We used chandeliers to provide a linkage with the past and as well as reflected light from the...
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1950 CA Bungalow Bath Remodel
This bath remodel includes a HydroMassage whirllpool, custom cherry vanity with granite top, ThinWire floor heat, and Title 24 compliant halogen lighting. The vanity was designed to...
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Time Flies When You Remodel
When my husband was sent on a 1-year remote assignment with the Air Force I decided to pass the time by remodeling the interior of our 1980's home in Tempe, Arizona. I hated my kitchen from...
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Lost Boot Farm Kitchen
I felt like I was missing out on the family fun when I was cooking in the kitchen! So we removed the wall between the kitchen and living room/dining room areas to open it up as a great...
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Bathroom gut & remodel
Complete renovation from awful, banana tiled shower and vinyl flooring. New bathroom includes 12x24 porcelain tile, custom vanity, 3 piece acrylic shower surround with dual pot lights, new electrical...
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Main Line Mess Made Nice
1 commentToo old and too ugly. This kitchen was the most dramatic transformation I have seen.
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Total home renovation from weeping shutters to sunny Craftsman
Our project is our home that we are currently in the painful process of renovating. It's an original 1950's era bungalow that had no less than four wildly different additions all clad in horrible...
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Extreme Shower Makeover
This bathroom started off as a dated tile shower in need of a new face. This was the only bathroom in the house that could handle this type of shower. The bathroom was only 6x8nbsp...
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Goodbye Halloween...
Initially, we were contacted to update the kitchen by keeping the same basic layout-- aka Rip and Replace w/ stock cabinetry, paint and tile floors/backsplash. The kitchen was closed off from...
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Transforming a rundown, intown 2-family into our home
We bought this two family in 2006 (as it, it was noted on the sales agreement) with the idea of turning into a couple of small condos that we could flip. But the city denied our permit (we still...
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Hallowell Maine-1900's Victorian Kitchen Remodel
Converted a 1900s Maine Victorian home from a duplex (done around 1950's) back to a single family home.
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Penthouse Condominium Renovation
Complete gut remodel of a 1960's penthouse condominium transformed into a modern, elegant and free-flowing living space.
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Bathroom Rework
1968 Bathroom, had shower tile installed over a wallpapered wall. Tile literally fell off of wall during demo. Took entire room down to studs and subfloor, rebuilt shower, installed new floor base...
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Deck Redesign
This deck was in desparate need of replacement and a workable design. Redesigned to make it more user friendly and to avoid all the extraneous railing which made it look like a prison. Also, provided...
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From lemon to lemonade
Original bathroom next to a walk in closet. I removed the partioned wall, gutted it all and created a stunning custom bathroom with walk in shower that was in part, part of the walk in closet...
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The House Next Door
4 commentsThe kitchen was owned by a 'packrat' who grew old and was not able to take care of himself...very sad. He was a good neighbor...but not a good housekeeper. My wife and I bought the...
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West Seattle Modern
We found out on return from our honeymoon that our 1940s house was infested with mold. Gyplap sheathing was covered in side and outside of sheathing with high levels of a common mold that we...
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Complete Kitchen Remodel
This was a kitchen in a 1980s house that had never been prefessionally remodeled. I bought it at a short sale and gutted the kitchen and started over.
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Contest Rules -- Before and After Home Remodels
6 commentsHave you put an avocado-green, 1970s kitchen out of its misery, or transformed a flamingo pink bathroom from ick to slick? If so, we want to see details of your quality kitchen and bath remodels.
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Building Our First House: Floor Plan & Elevations Tour
Since our house was featured on the Fine Homebuilding website in February we've had requests to see our floor plan. For those interested this page shows the original working plan (minus dimensions...
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New Mexico Cliff House
3 commentsSouth facing windows with interior Trombe wall for passive solar collection. Ponderosa pine, board and batten siding cut from the surrounding mountians (not by me) Nailing pattern from FHB.
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1930s American Foursquare
1 commentWe bought a 1930 American Foursquare in 2006 which we are still restoring and updating. There was only one outlet on the second floor in the hallway for 4 bedrooms & 1 bathroom! The house had the...
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Outdated to Outstanding: A Fireplace Facelift
1 commentThe layout of the room and the off-center outdated fireplace made it difficult to figure out the best way to place the furniture or use the bland fireplace as a focal point. Working with the...
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Covered Deck
2 commentsI built this deck on our house during the summer of 2008. I had help from family and friends, but the bulk of the work was done on my own. The framing for the deck is pressuretreated...
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porch railing
3 commentsHi Lawrence, I recently visited a website where this picture was noted to be published by you. Your work is excellent. We are researching porch/deck railings and were interested to know...
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Can't Find Ready Made Molding - Making Your Own - Custom Crown Molding
3 commentsCan't find a piece of crown molding to match an existing installation? Make your own using this technique. Having not run into this requirement before, tried it out and it worked...
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Custom Island Cart - Rolling Cutting Board
Custom island cart with end grain butcher's block top treated with a food grade mineral oil. In all, the top is made up of 964 pieces of maple and walnut end grain, glued together with a waterproof...
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Butcher Block Kitchen Island
This kitchen island is approximately 3' x 6' and built from 3/4" birch plywood with poplar face frames. It has a John Boos maple butcher block work surface. It was painted with 2 coats of Benjamin...
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Small Bath Re
1950 California bungalow bath remodel. Expanded floor space by moving closet in adjacent bedroom. Custom designed bow front vanity saves floor space while maximizing storage. Hydro...
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