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LIVING THROUGH A REMODEL; Tips to Get the Home of Your Dreams and Keep Your Sanity! budgeting for construction design a home design tips for first time homeowners interior design living through renovations remdeling secrets remodeling renovation renovation tips Mar 25, 2022

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Living through a major renovation is in our future! Weā€™re hoping to survive and thrive so Iā€™ve beenĀ gathering information

  • from my clients whoā€™ve done it
  • from my experience on the jobĀ 
  • previous renovations Iā€™ve lived through
  • everything Iā€™ve read online

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Letā€™s start by agreeing, all change is hard, right?

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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

Itā€™s 90 degrees. The humidity is so thick itā€™s hard to breathe and the air conditioning has just crapped out.Ā  Summer in the city.Ā 

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.Ā 

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ā€˜About an hourā€™, he says and Iā€™m grateful.Ā 

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I have...

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ARE YOU PREPARED TO DESIGN AND BUILD YOUR DREAM HOME? Get Started with a Plan for your Future Home. building a home custom home building design design a house home design how to start designing a home interior design lifeskills planning interior layouts shop class understanding blueprints Jul 06, 2021

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How the heck do you entertain 18 yr old's at a high school graduation party?Ā  The DJ was a start.Ā  But what else?Ā  Even briefly?

I thought I had the answer!

It was this awesome, go anywhere sā€™mores tray on Etsy for my daughterā€™s party.Ā  It was perfect.Ā  Not too young for the crowd.Ā  Who doesnā€™t love sā€™mores?

But it was not to be.Ā Ā COVID strikes ...

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3 STEPS TO DESIGN AND BUILD YOUR DREAM HOME; How to Define your Style to Make your New House YOUR Home building a home communication with builders construction custom home building defining your design style design styles home building and design how to start designing a home interior design making concept boards for home design new construction reading blueprints reading plans Mar 14, 2021

DREAM, DOCUMENT AND DELIVER!

There is an endless amount of documented research on the power of visualization and manifestation.Ā  From Maxwell Maltz's famous "Psycho Cybernetics" to every modern thought influencer, envisioning how you want to end up gets your brain working on how to get you there. That's a fact, Jack!

Michael Jordan made it real when I was ...

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HOW TO AVOID THE BIG MISTAKE HOMEOWNERS MAKE BUILDING A NEW HOUSE; Plan Your Future Home Like a Pro construction plans custom home building floorplans home building and design home building tips interior design mistakes in construction renovation tips Feb 14, 2021

The Big Mistake Homeowners Make Building a New Home

And How to Avoid IT!

Everybody wants that Pinterest image of a finished space, the kids rolling around on the new sofas, fire roaring in the background as the neighbors stroll in with some fresh baked goods or a basket of fruit.

Well, hold on to the crumb cake, thereā€™s plenty to do first.

The biggest mi...

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Framing Your Custom Home is the last chance you have to make Free Changes to your Design Floorplan construction plans custom home building floorplans home building and design home plans interior design new homeowners space planning Oct 01, 2020

Framing is the Summer Romance of Home Building and Construction, but don't be Fooled!!!

All the months and months of planning your new home and you finally break ground on your site!Ā  Bamm!!!Ā  Just like that, you've got a house.Ā  Framing usually takes only a weeks time for the average house to go from zero to sixty!Ā  If you miss a day, you miss a lot.

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