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How to Design Your Home to Prevent Common House Malfunctions

August 1, 2022 admin

It’s always important to take preventative measures to avoid common house malfunctions. By taking a few simple steps, you can help ensure that your home runs smoothly and doesn’t suffer from any major problems. In this article, we will discuss some of the best ways to design your home in order to prevent common malfunctions. We’ll cover everything from retaining walls to irrigation systems, so you can be sure your home is as safe and functional as possible!

Retaining Walls

Does your home sit on a slope? If so, then you may want to consider building a retaining wall. Retaining

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6 Beach House Decor Trends to Swoon Over

July 20, 2022 admin

What’s not to love about a beach retreat? Sun, sand, and ideally, a gorgeous beach house that delivers a resort-style home away from home. From Hilton Head to Tybee Island, beach houses across the South are offering up interior design inspiration to make us swoon.

6 Beach House Decor Trends to Swoon Over

Channel Nature (Naturally!)

A sisal rug. A raw-edged wood table. Lighting fixtures made of twigs or vines. Nature-inspired design is trending, and beach houses are an ideal

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Houston HGTV junkie gets her dream house with designer help

July 19, 2022 admin

Crystal Gates and Copatriccq Dartis were fairly happy with their Oak Forest home when the coronavirus pandemic set in. Their workdays took them to an office and it felt like they were only home a couple of hours in the morning and evening, plus weekends.
Suddenly, like the rest of America, they were at home all day and night and they took a good look around.

“When we lived in Denver, we fixed up (our house) to sell it before we moved (to Houston), and when it was done, it was beautiful. I wish we had lived in the house … Read more

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House Hunting: Is This Price Right?

September 14, 2021 admin

The strategy is to create something of a blind auction where buyers try to puzzle out a number that the sellers’ will actually accept and a number that’s higher than all the other offers. It’s a local quirk that everyone seems to acknowledge is just the way that things are done here.

Jodi Nishimura, a Compass agent based in Oakland, said she was surprised when she moved to the area from New York in 2002 and saw how listings were priced lower than their worth, usually around 10 percent less at that time. “It wasn’t common to see homes go

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Salvaged wood wraps Surf House in Santa Cruz by Feldman Architecture

September 5, 2021 admin

American firm Feldman Architecture has created a cypress-clad, beachfront dwelling that is meant to balance “high design and a casual Californian aesthetic”.

Perched on a bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean, Surf House is located in the central California city of Santa Cruz. The 417-square-metre dwelling serves as a weekend getaway for a San Francisco Bay Area family with strong ties to the coastal town.

Feldman Architecture designed the project — The home overlooks the Pacific Ocean in Santa Cruz

The clients charged San Francisco’s Feldman Architecture with designing a home that embraced the landscape and adhered to a geologic setback requirement.

They also wanted the dwelling

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Couple Buys Abandoned House in Japan for $30K and Renovates It: Photos

August 18, 2021 admin

Jaya Thursfield and his wife, Chihiro, bought an abandoned traditional Japanese farmhouse in 2019 and have spent the past two years turning it into their dream family home.

a family sits in front of a renovated traditional japanese farmhouse on a sunny day — Jaya Thursfield, his wife, Chihiro, their sons, Anton and Marco, and one of their cats, Kotora, in front of the house this week.

The couple, both of whom work in IT, moved to Japan from London in 2017 and started looking for a house.

One of Thursfield’s priorities was finding a house on a relatively large plot of land so they could have barbecues and a vegetable garden and so

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Austin Designer Amity Worrel & Co. Designed This Guest House to Look Like a Bavarian Chalet

August 7, 2021 admin

Every spring, the ladybugs showed up. They covered the walls of a small writing and reading room in the attic of a guest house in the Travis Heights neighborhood of Austin, Texas. So when the family hired Amity Worrel & Co to renovate the building, it only seemed suitable to let the ladybugs stay—visually, at least. “The idea just came together naturally because that ladybug shape was perfect for the pattern we had landed on,” says Amity Worrel, the firm’s owner and principal, who turned to a local artisan, Julie Rodgers, to create a custom mural inspired by them in

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