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It Ain’t Easy Remodeling Green

Beloved Muppet Kermit the Frog once crooned that it ain’t easy being green. Think how hard it is to remodel in an ecologically-friendly manner when your supplies are wood, stone and chemicals.
The Chicago Sun-Times provides a list of green-friendly remodeling tips:
The green light on going green
HOME REMODELING | Environmentally friendly advice to fix up [...]

Friday, October 26th, 2007

The answer is blowing in the wind - or at least my roof is

One of the great pleasures of remodeling is the opportunity to upgrade your lifestyle.  Think of all the great things you can get with a remodel - more space, more luxury, more storage, better efficiency, better flow for entertaining, cooking etc.  Maybe even a super cool bathtub big enough for a grownup.  Unfortunately, some remodels [...]

Wednesday, May 16th, 2007

Hollywood Hills Fire Photos

I wasn’t sure how to count it as a remodeling project, unless you consider it as the Big Guy remodeling a chunk of the Hollywood Hills and Los Feliz.  Nevertheless, I was up on the deck of my West Los Angeles house shooting photos of roofers putting on my new roof. (See - The answer [...]

Wednesday, May 9th, 2007

Time to Move… Or Remodel?

In an uncertain housing market, your best plan may be a remodeling project that addresses your needs.
Since prehistoric times, spring has been a time of rebirth, renewal, and the revival of a universal human lament: “We need a bigger cave.”
Or, at the very least, a more comfortable one.
Luckily for modern man, the climate for [...]

Thursday, May 3rd, 2007