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Master Bath Retreat
Nashville is saturated with music history, and it shows up in the most unexpected places. When our design-build team began work on a recently purchased 1938 stone cottage on the east side, we...
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Screened In Porch Addition
1 commentMost screened porches are too small for one to thoroughly enjoy the space. With an adequate size the porch becomes a living room to the great outside. In season, this room is used more the the living...
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Porch & Deck Combination with Watertight Deck & Patio below
This project was designed and built by Peachtree Decks and Porches in Cumming Ga. It included a porch with fireplace, deck area, and patio below a watertight deck system. An effort was made to blend...
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mobile carpenters workshop
they have a workshop slide show of this on woodmagazine.com. But its really meant for building and remodeling houses! Its small when its closed. everything locks up tight so I use it like a gang box...
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Complete Home Makeover
We are almost at the end of our three year project. We found a 1923 Tudor style home in a great neighborhood in West Hartford, CT. The original house had not been touched in over 34 years and...
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A Relaxing Retreat
The clients wanted to have an entertaining deck, but they also wanted to have a private covered deck accesible from their master bedroom. They wanted it to include a large fireplace as well as a few...
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Mountain Porch Retreat
Our region has an extended outdoor season that the homeowners wanted to take full advantage of. The existing deck was not adequate for hosting large parties and had no covered space for protection...
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Basement Addition Harper & Company Homes
2 commentsWe completed this basement addition by excvating the crawl space beneath the existing home and adding a new foundation. The addition added over 1300 square feet to the house and provided the...
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Woodshed House
1 commentThe woodshed started life in 1970 as an enclosure for garbage cans, trash burner and a wheel barrow. In 2008 I decided to make a shed to keep firewood dry and house other unsightly yard...
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Second Floor Room Addition to a Ranch
These customers needed a master bedroom with a private bath and a large walkin closet. We solved their problem by going up and removing the roof to find this needed space. The windows...
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second story addition with roof deck
THIS WAS A SECOND STORY ADDITION WITH ROOF DECK WE BUILT, THE OWNER WAS BY THE WATER BUT HAD NO OCEAN VIEWS. BY PUTTING ON THE SECOND STORY HE WAS ABLE TO GET 180 DEGREE OCEAN AND INLET...
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Total Renovation - Maine Rental Cottage
1 commentTripp's Handyman Service and partners put a lot of work into this project of converting a camp that was about to implode on itself and transforming it into this beautiful Maine rental...
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Hard day at work
3 commentsOur Golden Retriever, Hercules holding down a stack of lumber!
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my own house (timberframe section)
2 commentsTHis is the house in process, with roof on. I did a second story addition to my small ranch, with partial timber-frame for the second story floor in one section
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Ranch Conversion
1 commentArchitectural interest was added to this ranch through an attached shed and gable dormer addition. Steep roofs are a Nantucket style. The trim was sized to match the existing housenbsp...
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21st Century Neo-Classical Sunroom
4 commentsThe challenge was to take a mid-19th century schoolhouse with Greek Revival architecture and add a 21st century sunroom modeled after the original structure. The details on the new sunroom...
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Red Cedar Entry Roof
4 commentsThis is the new entry I built onto our new addition. I used clear western red cedar and wanted something that reflected some timberframe elements, particularly a through tenon, which I've always...
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4 Season Porch Conversion
2 commentsConversion of screened porch into 4 season room with radiant heat. Framing, electric and plumbing by certified contractors. All finish work done by myself, including all cabinets, trim, desktop and...
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NEW GARAGE FACE
STREET APPEAL I DO NOT HAVE ANY BEFORE PICTURES OF THE HOUSE, BUT IT LOOKED RATHER PLAIN FROM THE STREET WITH A 2X8 ON EDGE WRAPPED IN COLOURED METAL TRIM AROUND THE GARAGE DOOR...
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Deck pergola
3 commentsThis pergola provides much needed filtered shade to a southern exposure.It is made of Western red cedar and stained with Sikkens SRD. It was made in shop and assembled on site. The dimensions are...
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Victorian (Queen Ann) Style Curved Porch {Mangaris}
3 commentsHi. My name is Cliff Audet and I wanted to enter this porch that my crew and I built for my own house. The old porch was rotten beyond repair, so when we replaced it using the same details, we added...
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Outdoor Kitchen
I was part of a team that made this outdoor kitchen for a display at a local Home and Garden show. The base and counters are made of 4"-6" granite slabs. I then closed in the structure with...
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adding a living room and deck
2 commentsOur little house was only 435 sqare feet after the living room was added it is 800 square feet with a great deck out the front My tip is don't start redoing your house in the winter LOL With thanks...
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Covered Entrance Project
I recently retired and, of course, my wife, Terri, had the list of chores/projects all ready. New windows, doors and siding topped the list, but Terri had always wanted a covered...
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Modern Makeover - The Exterior
1 commentAcrylic Stucco, Redwood Siding, New Windows and Doors, Repitched Roof and Garage to Carport conversion. Reclaimed Redwood Shade Structure
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Hillsdale NY raised ranch - unranching
1 commentThis project began for two reasons: the house had no clear entrance and the 30 year old siding was falling off. Then we decided to add new windows, a screened porch and a 3rd floor loft to take...
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Westchester Waterfront Residence
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Vanity and medicine cabinets from the 'Small Addition' by Chuck Stevenson
3 commentsI'd like to nominate the work of Chuck Stevenson for this contest. His cabinets appeared in a how-to photo thread at Breaktime. All of the photos and text below were provided by him, and the links...
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Historic home remodel & addition
3 commentsNormal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Built in 1915, this almost three-story Colonial Craftsman home is a registered historic...
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Cabin Renovation
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