Blog by Beebe Cline, PREC*
August 4th, 2011
Well, this is certainly something a little different than what you are used to seeing on Houzz, but after walking through a fairy house neighborhood (what my grandfather always called "the deep, dark forest"), I felt compelled to share this unique architecture with you. Nestled into the moss, atop rocks, below the spruce tree branches, habitats for otherworldly creatures abound. You just have ...
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Vitamin V
August 4th, 2011
You
have selected the perfect tile for your kitchen or bath and are ready
to order. Have you thought about which trim pieces you will need to
finish the job correctly? This is not the most exciting part of your
tile shopping, but it is a necessary one.
For most tile installations, the finishing pieces are a no-brainer:
You go with either the matching surface bullnose or quarte ...
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Vitamin V
August 3rd, 2011
Lindsey Adelman's elegant and quirky blown-glass fixtures — delicate, industrial and organic-looking all at once — are popping up in kitchens, dining rooms and bedrooms all over the country. Her brilliance comes from her ability to find balance in opposing directions: Each of her pieces offers a push-and-pull between fragile and strong, hand-crafted and machine-made, masculine and feminine, r ...
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Vitamin V
August 3rd, 2011
I just finished uploading this House for sale, 14220 Wheatley Ave, White Rock, BCSouth facing back yard. Quiet street of 12. QUALITY home is a Rancher with a full walkout. 1559 sq ft on Main and basement 1559. Total 3118 sqft, attached 2 car garage, panoramic Ocean View from Blaine across the Semiahmoo peninsula.
San Juan's and gulf Islands No Wires Plenty of quality updates hard woo ...
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Listings
August 3rd, 2011
When
my husband and I bought our first house, I couldn't help but to look
forward to choosing paint colors for the first time. Apartment living
provided drab walls and flooring, and I was over it from day one. In
anticipation of our closing date, I began to play with various color
groupings and found myself leaning toward bright pinks and punchy
citrons — surely the answer to my d ...
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Vitamin V
August 2nd, 2011
So far in this flooring series, I've discussed a variety of ceramic tile, plank wood, engineered wood and laminate floors. Rounding out but by no means completing this series are linoleum and vinyl — also called resilient flooring, or sheet goods. Resilient flooring's a better term because not all resilient floors come as sheets. What they have in common, however, is an ironlike durability an ...
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Vitamin V
August 2nd, 2011
Designing
a kitchen is always a challenge, but it becomes much more difficult
when you have to design the entire thing from more than 3,000 miles
away. Houzz user Karen Heffernan was living in California while the
construction on her soon-to-be-home in Boston was still being completed.
But thanks to the help of her amazing builder and the power of the
internet, she was able to des ...
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Vitamin V
August 1st, 2011
Our
thoughts and prayers go out to family, friends and everyone else
affected by Irene, a storm that left devastating flooding in its wake.
If that includes you, here are some tips for getting that water out of
your basement and getting on with your life — plus some inspiration for
making the basement better than it was.First, before doing
anything, make sure it's safe to venture ...