Once your home has been designed and built with flow in mind, you have to continue that process through furniture placement. Before placing any furniture, you need to know what activities are going to be performed in each room. Have a list of furniture that you plan to use in each room. You’ll probably have a vision of how
Space design in a garage is completely different than interior storage design. The mistake that is most often made is that homeowners don’t thoroughly evaluate their needs before their storage system is designed. Without a real needs evaluation, you can spend the same amount of money on a system, and in the end, you still don’t have the storage that
1. Consider having one or more drawers added to the skirt of the table. 2. If you’re having a hutch, server or sideboard made also, don’t make it the same length as the table – either larger or smaller is best. 3. If you’re purchasing a beautiful old wood or solid wood table, consider this when selecting the chairs; most
1. Avoid what’s common. There are so many options in stone and tile today. Don’t make the mistake of choosing before you’ve looked at what’s on the market. If you take just a little time, you may find something that fits your budget and half of your neighbors don’t have exactly the same thing. 2. Rethink the edge.
When you are ready to finish your cabinets, many people make the mistake of thinking that they need to be completely ripped out and replaced. Often, the structure of the cabinets is fine and your either need to have the doors replaced or refinished to completely update the look of your kitchen. Usually, it’s the doors that date a kitchen.
Occasionally, you just really need something fresh to look at. Unfortunately, there usually isn’t a big budget to achieve the makeover you’re dreaming about. Here are 5 ideas that will do the trick for less. 1. Paint It’s the fastest, least expensive way to make a BIG change. But you still want to be cautious and test an area, and
If someone tells you that it’s better to live in your home for a while then make improvements to the lighting when you see how you’re going to live in the home, don’t believe them. They just cost you a lot of money. It always costs more to change something than to do it right the first time. The most
Don’t jump the gun. People go shopping all the time, who saw a photo in a magazine that they loved. Usually it’s the color that’s drawn them in. They invest in flower arrangements or accessories or furnishings and three months later they’re unhappy. Updating a look is inevitable, you just don’t want to make a mistake when you’re spending money.
