Spruce Up Your Home For Spring

Home Makeover

This time of year, we are often asked to come out and look at cleaning up the outside of a home. We look at several things: what is the exterior finish (Siding, brick, stucco, etc), how are the eaves constructed (open or closed), is the house exterior painted, stained, or capped with aluminum?

In most cases, power washing the exterior is the most efficient …

Universal Design – Preparing Your Home For The Future

bathroom

When going through the design process or preparing to undertake a remodel at home, many homeowners are focused on the “now”. These are the things that they want included in the design that would make life easier for them as it relates to their lives right now. What many homeowners don’t think about is the future. One simple question to ask yourself is “how long …

Painting Over Oil Based Paints

Steve Magill

When a homeowner wants to paint their house, they need to determine if their paint on the trim, walls and ceiling is water based latex or oil based paint. When painting over latex paint, any paint may be used. When painting over oil based paints, only an oil based paint may be used. Otherwise, the paint will peel off or blister off. The reason is …