August Kitchen Package Features Dos & Don’ts to Help Consumers Save Money When Remodeling. Remodeling a kitchen can be costly and there’s no guarantee that consumers will be completely satisfied with the end results. The August issue of Consumer Reports features tips, Home Remodeling inside secrets and 224 product Ratings of countertops, appliances, flooring and [...]
Not everyone is going gonzo with their kitchen remodeling. Martine Bednarski turned her “dark and ugly” space into a warm, practical room that features a hardwood floor, marble countertop and a free-standing pantry.
HIDDEN behind a downturn in the stock market, pain at the gas pump and historic home foreclosures, the high-end designer kitchen gleams on. [...]
Long before he became a designer-builder with a toolbox he bought on credit at Sears, Berkeley’s John Ferguson used to be a pastor.
“I was in a ministry that was troubled and I could not put my family through more years of that,” he confesses. Working with his hands he was able to make a difference [...]
Thomas Tripodi says he’ll never forget the Versace designer bathroom in the house he was marketing for $4 million-plus.
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With the home-price index in the United States posting declines, many families are deciding against shopping for new houses and, instead, are remodelling their current homes. But there can be financial pitfalls in remodelling, especially for those taking on major tasks such as room additions or full kitchen makeovers.
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Newport Beach’s John Laing Homes has been looking to grow beyond its core market of California.
But for its newest line of business the homebuilder is looking to its own backyard.
Make that the yards of some of Orange County’s wealthiest.
John Laing this month is starting a custom homebuilding business that’s seeking to help landowners in some [...]
I’ve been thinking about home and hurricanes lately. I grew up on the Gulf Coast, so the two will be linked forever in my mind. People in hurricane belts take storms in stride. It isn’t that we’re cavalier, or oblivious to the danger and destruction they can cause. But ratherthan live in fear, we stay [...]
In the late ’60s, it was New Haven’s very own Haight-Ashbury (pictured). Later it became a blighted eyesore. Today? An upscale duplex. It’s for sale — if you’ll live there.
An open house was held at the property, 203 Dwight St., Wednesday evening, hosted by Neighborhood Housing Services. The not-for-profit agency rescued and renovated the building [...]
National hardware show — Masterchem Industries today unveils its fourth annual Roller Report, revealing that three quarters (75 percent) of Americans and Canadians are planning to carry out a renovation this year, despite the fact that one in 10 homeowners plan to sell their homes in the next year. The report, which surveyed more than [...]