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Use Pinterest to help organize your design inspirations as well as search out and share design images. Continue reading
Posted in Design, Remodel Planning
Tagged design images, design pictures, design resources, Interior Design, Remodel Planning
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Times have changed. In years gone by I scoured the net, laboriously searching for headboard photos, living room layout ideas, Moroccan throw rugs and credenzas without much luck. Now it’s all I can do to keep my feet on the … Continue reading
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Guest Blog by Kristen Pender While helping out in the Portland Tradesmen office and in constantly surveying my favorite design blogs, I come across some pretty amazing innovations in the home remodeling world. Today I’ll try my hand at blogging … Continue reading
Posted in Building Materials, Design, Sustainability
Tagged Building Materials, Home Renovation, Interior Design, Remodel
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Over the years I’ve found that there are five primary design elements or impulses that people tend to express and gravitate towards. Identifying the design elements that you are most drawn to helps to inform your design ideas and goals. … Continue reading
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Tagged Contractor, Design, Home Renovation, Interior Design, Remodel
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Sustainability is a concept that has now been around long enough that technology implementation is a bigger hurdle than technology development. I know that sustainable technologies will continue to improve and multiply but by utilizing current technology intelligently we have … Continue reading
Posted in Design, Sustainability
Tagged Contractor, Home Renovation, Remodel, Sustainability
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Many people find themselves perplexed when it comes to the planning stage of a remodel project. For most people the biggest questions relate to the design verses budget dilemma. Some approach a project by starting with a budget and working backwards, … Continue reading