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Mid Century House Gets a New Kitchen
Sustainable cabinetry, quartz counters, cork flooring.
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Modern Makeover - The Living Room
1 commentRemodeled Living Room - added fireplace, sustainable cabinetry, new doors and windows. Reframed roof to increase ceiling height, finished concrete slab.
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Modern Makeover -The Kitchen
By grabbing a few extra feet from the adjacent laundry room and opening the kitchen up to the dining area, we were able to realize some dramatic changes to this negleted kitchen. Sustainable...
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MORE Westchester Waterfront
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Westchester Waterfront Residence
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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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New National Standard to Limit Formaldehyde Content?
6 commentsAs of today, the Kitchen Cabinet Manufacturers Association is throwing their support behind legislature that aims to limit the formaldehyde content of particleboard, hardwood plywood, and medium density fiberboard (MDF) panels.
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Fait Accompli: Our First House...Finished
5 commentsAfter almost two years of steady work our passive-solar house is now "officially" built. Looking back it hardly seems possible... Thanks to a combination of mutual enthusiasm, several talented...
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Announcing our Before and After contest winners
1 commentFine Homebuilding editors are a finicky bunch, and opinionated too. So the task of narrowing down the nearly 150 entries from our “Before and After: What’s Old is New Again,” kitchen and bath contest to just five winners wasn’t easy.
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Old Bleachers New Kitchen
5 commentsIn this project we had some serious structural issues to correct in order to rearrange the layout to maximize the footprint of the space. The kitchen space that we started with was the result of two...
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From Washington to Maine: Building A House for the First Time: Updated Kitchen Photos
2 commentsMy wife and I have nearly finished our kitchen. This is an important room for us since we love to cook. After a year of preparing meals on a butcher block counter-top seated on an open substructure...
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Home and resort in Panama totally green
2 commentsThis is my first building project. I dreamed the house, woke up drew the floor plan and roof line from the dream and had an architect draw the plans. We are solar, hydro and wind powered...
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How to Paint Fiber-Cement Siding
Painter Jim Lacey shares some tips for caulking and painting fiber-cement siding. read more
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