Custom Home Built To Last

Saturday, September 6th, 2008

Renovating a home is one daunting task. How much more when you are going to build one from the ground up? Or if you are planning on building a custom home, a log cabin, perhaps? I have learned based on experience that it is really important to hire the service of ...

Renovation Thoughts

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

Renovating a house is a very intimidating task. Much more, if you are gutting the whole place. It is so unlike just re-painting, when even if you make a mistake you can easily re-paint again, and it is not that costly a mistake. When we gutted our place four years ...

Let There Be Light

Saturday, July 26th, 2008

A well lit room creates good ambiance. I so believe in that hence, the reason why I insisted on getting quality and stylish ceiling lights when we renovated our place almost five years ago. In fact, because of my fascination with lighting, I insisted on getting light fixtures that not ...

Bathroom Hooks

Friday, July 25th, 2008

Isn't it amazing to see tons of different options of bathroom hooks nowadays? They come in different styles, shapes, sizes, materials, finish and all kinds of variation. In the midst of all these, we should not forget to coordinate the hook with a nearby fixture in the bathroom. You have ...

Quick Kitchen Face-lift

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

The easiest and probably painless way to change the look of your kitchen cabinet is to change the hardware or the kitchen pulls. But even if it's that easy, there are still things we need to know before we can actually go ahead and buy the replacement pulls. But, for ...

Countertop Materials

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

Four years ago, before we moved in to our apartment  we completely gutted and renovated the whole place. It was one stressful and intimidating project, more so because it was my first time to have to go through something so extensive. Gutting and putting things back is a lot more ...

Color Phobia

Sunday, July 6th, 2008

Many still live in a home that's painted all white, all beige or anything that's very neutral. With the proliferation of so many paint colors from classic colors with a twist to the real funky ones, possibilities are unlimited. But if you are color phobic, how are you going to ...

Secure Your Door

Sunday, July 6th, 2008

Security is so important. We can make our doors more secure against break-ins by having a few simple measures in place. First and foremost, get a deadbolt lock with a horizontal bolt that is at least 1 inches long.  With that, you should also have a reinforced strike plate that ...