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RECESSED LIGHTS SUCK AND HERE'S WHY! be your own interior designer budget and design building a home construction costs construction plans custom home building defining your style designing on a budget designing your home diy designer diy home home design lighting design lighting for home lighting ideas and decor new home recessed lights remodeling renovation Jan 31, 2022

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Recessed lights can ruin all the hard work you've done so far and here’s why. They usually go horribly wrong.  Plain and simple.

 

We’ve all been in that friend’s house that's lit up like Coney Island.  The high hats are everywhere.  But the sparkle flecks of the countertop she agonized over for weeks, are lost in a sea of blinding light.  

 

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7 TIPS TO BE YOUR BEST DESIGNER; Get the Confidence and Skills to Design and Build Your Home be your own interior designer building a home building tips for first time homeowners communication with builders construction construction costs custom home building defining your style design design mistakes design tips for first time homeowners designing for the beach house designing your home diy designer do it yourself design floorplans home building and design home building tips home plans how to start designing a home interior design interior design help interior design tips mistakes in construction Jul 30, 2021

It’s 90 degrees. The humidity is so thick it’s hard to breathe and the air conditioning has just crapped out.  Summer in the city. 

I sit in my big powerful truck, powerless and sweaty, I watch the mechanic leaning over a running engine with a lit cigarette butt hanging precariously from his lips. 

 

‘About an hour’, he says and I’m grateful. 

 

I have...

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YOU CAN BUILD YOUR HOME AND STAY ON BUDGET; The Real Costs of Building a House and How to Plan For It budget building a home construction costs construction plans custom home building home design homebuilding budgeting paying for construction Mar 01, 2021

 Why Going over Budget is a Lie 

The biggest myth about building your home or construction projects is that 

Everybody goes over a budget.   

 

Well…..it might seem like that.  It definitely feels like that!  And most homeowners would agree.   We’ve all heard the stories of “this or that that blew the budget”  But the reality of home design and ren...

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