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How to Design a Finished Basement

In this blog post, you’ll learn how to design a finished basement prior to a remodel and how to use Home Designer software to help you come up with a great design. Whether you’re planning to remodel your basement yourself or to hire a contractor to do it for you, you’re going to need a design […]

January 19th, 2018
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Let’s Build a Medicine Cabinet Part 1

In this post you’ll learn: – The first steps to build a medicine cabinet For a few years now I’ve been itching to build a medicine cabinet.  I’m not really sure why.  I guess I never liked the idea of paying a couple hundred bucks for a small painted box.  They’re pretty simple after all. […]

January 28th, 2015
Home Office Detail Design

In this post you’ll learn: -What Detailed Design is all about -How to use existing products to dimension your own projects It’s been nearly two weeks since our last home office post, so it’s time for an update. We just completed the detailed design work and we’re going to be getting started later this week […]

February 18th, 2014
Coffered Ceiling Concept Design

In this post you’ll learn about: – Two different types of coffered ceiling options and the pros and cons of each – How to design the layout of the coffered ceiling boxes using Excel and SketchUp In between shoveling out from snow storms and salting our sidewalk, we’ve been winding down the concept development portion […]

February 6th, 2014
Home Office Layout Options

In this post you’ll learn: – How room layout options can be tweaked to get desirable results – How SketchUp can be used to design and build room layouts With all the snow we’ve had this week, I had enough down time to work on our home office layout options.  To make things easier on […]

January 23rd, 2014
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