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1937 NJ LAKE COTTAGE SALVAGE
We loved the Cottage and location, as rustic as it was, we had a vision of updating without losing the charm and originality from the 30s. My wife and I gutted the place and replaced...
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Out with the 70's orange!
Took down cupboards, insulated, rewired, sheetrocked, re-installed cupboards, new countertop and sink.
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Seaside kitchen facelift
This is a kitchen project undertaken for a special client - my dear aunt Caroline. We designed and built everything from scratch. The countertop is slate tile. The island is marble. The floors are...
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Livingroom makeover
100 y/o old was remodelled 20+ years ago with lots of paneling that was "in" at the time, I guess. Fireplace was just a cinderblock opening. Woodwork was very very dark. We stripped...
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Master Bath complete makeover
Small budget, 100 y/o home that had been remodelled 20 years prior. We gutted the entire bathroom, and what used to be a very small shower became a very nice closet. Where bathtub was is...
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70's Ranch Bathroom Remodel
I'm totally renovating a 70's rancher with a finished basement. This is the bathroom remodel of the downstairs bathroom. The moldings, mirror, wall lights, and lamp were all designed and...
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Opening up the Kitchen on a 740 Square Foot house.
3 commentsThis is a kitchen remodel for a 740 square foot house with a tiny kitchen. There wasn't any room for the fridg. or range. The whole house felt small and tight so we opened up the kitchen by removing...
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Rental Property Kitchen Disaster
3 commentsOur company, Heartland Construction was hired to completely renovate a 1930's two bedroom 940 square foot rental in El Cerrito, Ca. The tenant had been living in the house for 20+ years but...
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Kitchen Remodel in 1921 Colonial Revival
When we bought our "fixer upper" house we knew the kitchen was a disaster, we just didn't realize how disastrous. With the exception of one wall all the old lath and plaster was shot had to be...
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The Little House
A small and unloved house with every room taken apart and put back together again.
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bath redo
1 commentThis 1950s bathroom had vinyl tiles on the floor (yes, the ones with speckles in them), baby blue tub, toilet and sink. 1970s fake tile panels on all the walls (contained stylish tan accents in...
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A Simple Cabin
These cabins are a simple 1 1/2 story rectangle, with a screened porch off the living room. They have one bedroom and bath downstairs and a cozy vaulted bedroom with a bath in a dormer...
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beach house bathroom
How we found it: 3 layers of cieling and mold, split level tub and sink draining directly into the crawl space, variety of vinyl flooring on floors and walls, pink fixtures, stick on tile bathroom...
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Small kitchen renovation
This customer wanted a full renovation from the cabinets, to countertops to appliances and even the kitchen sink. The kitchen was gutted down to the cement floor, walls and even removal of the old...
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Dramatic kitchen renovation
1 commentMy customer wanted to remodel their very dated kitchen and dining room. Together we developed a plan to establish a more user friendly enviroment. The first step was to remove the...
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wonderful walnut bathroom
1 commenttotal reno, changed everything, swing out door to custom made pocket door with mirrors inlayed,ripped out old fixtures, drywall, flooring, tub suround, wall (to make pocket door track) installed...
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G&L's kitchen adventure
This is the after picture I had no luck loading a before picture. A whole series of first time efforts; did it all.
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Spiral stairway replacement
1 commentMy new (to me) home ('80s vintage) was everything I wanted. It even had room for a full sized pool table in the 15 x 30 loft. But there was a useless narrow metal spiral stairway leading to it. Even...
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"Found" Room in Basemnt
Unfinished half of basment 1873 House. Boarded up for years. Opened to fix sagging floor. Ten months later. New electric. Custom seating covering sewer pipe. Driveway pavers. Shelves for 2,500 beer...
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Rambler Kitchen Remodel
My wife and I completely remodeled our entire kitchen. We took out the soffit to make the small space feel larger. We also moved a wall to create a pantry that used previously wasted...
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3rd Woodworking project in my life!
3rd woodworking project ever. First was rocking chair in high school 35 years ago. Second was bookcase in current house. Built from plywood and 4/4 red oak (scratch). Heated ceramic floor - could not...
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Deck with a view replacement
The orginal deck was 1450 sq ft, much too large for the area and in very unsafe condition. I replaced it with a smaller footprint but because it was still around 1300 sq ft I incorporated patterns to...
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Guest Bath Remodel
1 commentThe original bathroom was divided into two small rooms...both of which were too small to use effectively. We took out the dividing wall and stripped the room down to the studs and reinsulated...
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Opening a kitchen with no added space
Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 This tightly packed kitchen was opened up to the adjoining dining room and the compact, single user peninsula was converted to...
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Peach Formica Countertops.......Yikes!!
When my wife and I moved into our new house the kitchen was a disaster with peach countertops and old outdated appliances. We installed granite countertops along with new stainless steel appliances...
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Kitchen remodel
The original kitchen had a solid wall over the sink counter, with a small door...we opened up the wall over the sink counter (picture 1), and opened the door into a 6 foot archway to expose the views...
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Modern Mission Hall Bath
My client had two goals for their hall bathroom remodel. . . The client had two goals for their hall bathroom remodel: aesthetically integrate the bathroom with the modernized Mission...
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Gauguin Place Kitchen Gets a Little Push
Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 The design goals for this project were to increase the space in the kitchen and dining areas while bringing the outside in with...
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1969-2009
Besides being old, dirty and small, the plumbing had to go and it needed a rewire. We demolished the enitre kitchen (as part of a whole house remodel) and pushed out the wall on the left (south) side...
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Back yard walls, arbors and pergola
After putting the overhead utility lines underground, we started over again with the back yard. It's organized into two levels, with the lower level close to the house paved in brick on sand...
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Kitchen Remodel
The wholesale remodel of a kitchen/breakfast room born in 1930 required all the energy, ideas and organizational skills we (a retired helicopter test pilot and public school administrator) could...
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