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Your Four Options For Your Cosmetic Remodel Installation: 1) You Do It Yourself, 2) You Hire A General Contractor, 3) You Hire A Handyman, Or 4) You Do The Design, Get Materials, And Hire A Cross-Functional Subcontractor For The Installation

Your four options for a cosmetic remodel installation The remodel landscape has changed. Budget-minded homeowners don’t hire designers anymore — they watch remodel shows, scour the internet, and find great deals on materials they choose themselves. What they often can’t do is install it. So who should? Four ways to get it installed Your four

Your Four Options For Your Cosmetic Remodel Installation: 1) You Do It Yourself, 2) You Hire A General Contractor, 3) You Hire A Handyman, Or 4) You Do The Design, Get Materials, And Hire A Cross-Functional Subcontractor For The Installation Read More »

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Master Bath Tile, Oakland Hills, August, 2020

Tile

This was a multi-million-dollar Oakland Hills home, probably built in the 1950s. Building materials were better then, but the house had settled, and there wasn’t a right angle, a flat wall, or a plumb surface in the bathroom. The easy part Demolition went quickly. The old tile came off the walls without much fight. Behind

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Master Bath Tile on a Floated Mortar Bed, Oakland Hills, photo 4

Marble Condo Tub Surround, San Mateo, August, 2020

Shower And Bath

Better ingredients, better results. This San Mateo condo owner had sourced about 70 square feet of 6″ x 12″ polished marble, to be installed around the tub in a subway, or brick, pattern. They also had a diagonal mesh mosaic they wanted to run floor to ceiling across the entire rest of the bathroom. Why

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Patio ‘Refresh’, Alameda, CA, October, 2019

Hardscape, Uncategorized

“Paleo Living”: the rugged past in the functional present, with contrasting colors, forms, and materials This project set out to make more use of the outdoor living space at a two-story Victorian in Alameda. The owner had already put money into remodeling the house, and out back sat a storage shed on a gorgeous reclaimed

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Reclaimed Brick Patio Refresh in Alameda, photo 8

Apartment Refresh (Paint, Flooring, Trim), Oakland, 2018

Kitchen, Laminate flooring, Paint

This was a ground-floor, one-bedroom unit on MacArthur Boulevard in Oakland that hadn’t been consistently occupied. It had been partly storage and partly a shelter for stray cats. The owner had a big heart. We won’t show how it looked when we first came through to measure, but it was in serious need of attention.

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Two Ways To Resurface Your Kitchen Cabinets

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Painting over stained, varnished kitchen cabinets is one of the best-value upgrades in a home — you keep the boxes, skip the demolition, and get a kitchen that looks new. But anyone who has tried painting over varnish knows it doesn’t just work. There are two methods we trust. Here’s how each works, what goes

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