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Beautiful Fireplace
This fireplace was the crowning achievement of a recent home ground level re-design by Royal Holland Incorporated (Tri-Cities, WA). It features custom hardwood shadow boxes, rustic porcelain tile, a...
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New Contemporary Fireplace
This fireplace was designed to create a focal point in a great room. The 7.5" deep wall was built of studs on 12" centres as the wall was being tiled in 12"X24" porcelain tiles over concrete board...
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Slate Fireplace In The Style Of Rookwood Pottery
After renovating a beautiful Victorian home in Santa Cruz, we moved to Washington to build a Craftsman style home. We wanted it to look like it fit in it's environment, in the traditional style. With...
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Bathroom Gut Job
3 commentsThis was a 100% bathroom remodel. We had a company that was contracted to work for Home Depot come in to do it and it took less than 2 weeks to finish. We would absolutely recommend using the same...
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Claw Foot Bath Tub = Up Dated Bathroom
This remolded / updated bathroom started with the claw foot tub that my friend gave me. The claw foot tub was bigger than the old tub, so I had to redsign the bathroom (this is my house) in order to...
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Craftsman styled Curly maple & Cherry kitchen
This kitchen is the centerpiece of an open concept 2000 square foot, self built bungalow loosely based on a craftsman theme. Like most of the home the kitchen was designed and built from scratch by...
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Estate Home Project, 7500 sq. ft. on two acres with pool
1 commentThe main house has a wine cellar, media room, marble flooring, custom trimwork, plasterwork, and custom cabinets throughout. Exterior is stucco and stone with wood windows, copper facia and copper...
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Bathroom remodel
Hardwood on the shower floor? Actually, it's tile that looks like wood and creates a whole new look for bathroom shower floors.
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Handmade Barrel Tile Set in Mortar
This house was built in the late 30's, and for the restoration, the homeowner, and designer wanted a traditional barrel tile set in mortar. We used a custom color oxide which is not period...
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Pull out cabinet in full bath
This was a 2nd Floor bathroom remodel ( 5' x 9' ) So space is a premium at best for storage. We came up with the idea of using a media full extension swivel pull out by...
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Handmade Tile Back Splash
2 commentsMy husband and I designed and built our home in 2004. Since we designed the house I thought it appropriate to design and build our back splash. I came up with the design and my 2 daughters (1 with...
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Bath Retreat
This bathroom renovation was commissioned by two doctors who wanted a serene space to come home to and relax. Their pre-renovation bathroom suffered from an inefficient layout and did not convey...
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Bathroom
This old bathroom had good fixtures, albeit in dark brown, that needed an update from the lino floor. By buying a crate of broken tiles we kept under budget and were able to do the floors and walls...
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New Island Opens up Kitchen
Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 This new kitchen island replaced a perpendicular peninsula that closed the kitchen off from the adjacent living areas. By...
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Contemporary Kitchen
1 commentNot my Design, Not my Boxes, My Remodle and Install. It came out Nice.........
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BBQ Enclosure
2 commentsHere is my 3 year old Aussie going into the pool after a long day warching me lay the final tile on a BBQ enclosure I built that included glass block, natural gas hookups, electrical and water for...
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A Fine Wine Cellar
The conversion of the laundry room into this fabulous wine cellar was substantial. The owners wished to have a Napa-look that created a visual connection between the wine...
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FROM OLD TO NEW
1 commentOUR KITCHEN WAS COMPLETELY GUTTED. IT ORIGINALLY MEASURED 12X17, AND AFTER THE ADDITION IT MEASURES 18X26. IT HAS A WALK IN BUTLER'S PANTRY AND A WORKING ISLAND THAT COMFORTLY SEATS 4. THERE'S A...
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1970's Master Bathroom Renovation (Product from Lowes / Work done by Me)
This small master bathroom still had the original shower doors from the 1970’s! Not only was this room ugly, but it was in desperate need of repair. The original shower was cracked...
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1970's Bathroom Renovation (Product from Lowes / Work done by Me)
This bathroom was straight from the 1970’s! Not only was it ugly, but it was in desperate need of repair. The original tub / shower was cracked, flaking apart and leaking. The...
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Bathroom Renovation
This is a conversion of 1970's his/her bathrooms plus two closets and a hallway into one modern bath and separate toilet room. I am not a professional contractor (I am a Surgeon), but all the...
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Sarasota Bathroom - From Blah to Spa
Revamping a dated bathroom. The walls are painted in Soft Jazz by Benjamin Moore. Vanity top and floors are Carrera marble. The bath tiles are handmade, giving additional texture to...
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copper themed bathroom remodel
2 commentsI bought this 1925 craftsman in SE Portland which had been remodeled in the '80's for the previous family who had 6 children. The only original casework and windows existed in the entry and the...
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Yeah, a girl can do it
Janice Belknap, a 28 year old pharmacist in Portland, OR, knew where she wanted to live, the Southeast area of the city, but was having a difficult time finding the house with the features she wanted...
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Re-do Over-do
The ensuite bathroom of our 1970s home was badly overdue for an updating. The shower had been renovated a few years previously, but it was time to do the rest. We looked at factory cabinets, but...
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From boxy and closed-in to light and curvaceous
1 commentThis home was a circa 1960 tri-level with the original room arrangement. There were distinct divisions between rooms (i.e., kitchen, dining room, living room). While the extended family...
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Old style mixed with ultra slick New
Cacique Construction (www.cmcdesignbuild.com) specializes in residential interior design and construction. We have a strong commitment to excellence in craftmanship and service.
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Knotty Pine Den Goes Contemporary
This room was dark, boring and out of date - a typical c.1960's lower-level den overwhelmed by the knotty pine paneling. Other issues included a low, cracked, textured ceiling, poor...
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A treasure buried in the bathroom
1 commentEnded up gutting "old blue" and putting in all new fixtures and cabinets. Previous owners were 4 woman, all with long hair. The tub drain was clogged and I discovered someone had tried...
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You called that a Kitchen? Now it's a Chef's Kitchen!
A bit of a transformation. It is now a chef's smart kitchen with foot controls at the sink, floor kick lighting, numerous hidden outlets, an automated lighting system with 8 "scenes" and manual...
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1950's Makeover,. in and out,.
This was a 1950's house we purchased alittle over a year ago. My wife looked at this house due to its location(nice compromise of space and proximity to city) She visited it 3 times before i saw it...
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Silk Purse from a Sow's Ear
1 commentThe main objective of this kitchen remodel was to create a modern, convenient, unique, and aesthetically pleasing cooking, eating, and entertaining facility out of an old, tiny rambler...
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How to Paint Fiber-Cement Siding
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