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Client Goal: A total renovation to change the floor plan and allow for an island, while making the flow better. Our Solution: We took out the peninsula floor plan and created a large butcher block island improve the efficiency, storage space and...
Client Goals: To stay in the home they know and love, filled with photos of annual family reunions. They needed to make the first floor compliant with ADA standards (Americans with Disabilities Act) to accommodate a veteran who now needs...
Client Goals: Finish several rooms in the basement area of the home in a traditional style. Our Solution: We created a pub area with stone bar and backbar, an office, a game room, a theater room, and a full bath. We finished the floor in an additional...
Client Goals: Remodel the master bath for better integration of the shower, water closet, sitting area, and walk-in closet. Our Solution: We incorporated three separate spaces (bathroom, sitting area, and closet) by moving doorways and walls to make a larger, more...
Client Goals: Make the kitchen bigger, and more usable, in a traditional style. Our Solution: The formerly small kitchen was expanded into space once taken up by a screened porch — which meant adding a structural beam extending into the new laundry room...
Client Goals: Remodel two bathrooms (a basement guest bath and the master bath). Our Solution: The new master bath makes more dramatic use of the corner windows and skylight. Grey wood-plank tile brings emphasis to the white cabinetry, shutters,...
Client Goals: Take out the old kitchen and open up the space to adjoining rooms, creating a more united style throughout. Our Solution: After demolishing the existing kitchen, we added new structural elements to reinforce the open spaces, creating a...
The covered patio sits outside your daylight basement. It doesn’t have its own roof – it has a first-floor addition, or a porch, above it. So, lots of shade, lots of posts (holding up the addition). Depending upon the orientation of your house and side yard, you might...
We tend to think about our house insulation in the winter, when the furnace keeps cycling on (or not), or when everyone’s bundled up in layers of sweatshirts and hats, whining. This is when we want insulation to act like a sub-zero sleeping bag, retaining our body...
Greathouse craftsman Rod starts from scratch. This 48" wide barndoor’s needs a rustic feel, so Rod uses spruce with knots to give it character. The design has three 12x17 windows across the top, and two recessed 18”x 50” flat panels in the body. The door is built in...
Who had the bright idea of putting a wall here? Sometimes your space just doesn’t work out, no matter how many times you move the furniture. Sometimes you need to think a bit more radically. What if you just move that wall? Or take it out entirely? Whoa. But this is...
We are so thankful to be hard at work in this beautiful area and especially at this time of year. A great place to raise a family. GreatHouse. Great Living!
Master bathroom remodeling projects are at the top of a lot of people’s wish lists. Many folks tackle a master bath renovation and a master bedroom remodel at the same time, adding walk-in closets or dressing or sitting rooms, creating one peaceful, private retreat....
During our hot and buggy summers, it’s an amazing luxury to be able to relax outside, protected from mosquitoes and other bitey things on a screened porch. But all screened porches are not created equal, and there are five key must-haves for a great one. No. 1: Plenty...