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Accent Lighting Basics: Installing Rope Lighting Rope lights are a super easy way to introduce accent lighting and color into your lighting design. There are many uses for rope lighting and they work so well because of their versatility. A common use for rope lights is as a cove or accent light. Rope lights placed…
Photo source Visualization Software: Access to Real-Life Images Makes a Powerful Sales Tool Salespeople in a variety of industries are taking advantage of dramatic improvements in technology to make it easier to present complex product lines and quicken the process from the initial meeting to the completed sale. The most exciting of these advancements is…
Photo: CedarSafe aromatic cedar boards come in a box that cost approx $25.00 and covers 15 square feet. Installing An Aromatic Cedar Lined Closet In the past few years I’ve seen an increase in closet makeovers. Cedar closets are often asked for by homeowners as are a great DIY project. This article will focus on…
Adding a closet in a room Yesterday and today we have been working on Building A Closet in house that was deigned by Architect Royal Barry Wills (1895 – 1962). Wills was a preeminent Boston architect and author. He was the master of the Cape Cod style house, in its Colonial Revival incarnation from the 1930s to…
Closet Design ~ Interior Sketch View The photos above and below show wall space in a potential clients bedroom. She wants to add a closet against the angled wall to the window. Those closet design dimensions are approximately 88″w x 94″h x 28d” Thanks to my friend and Architect Daniel Broggi and his auto CAD skills…
Let me start by saying that I don’t have many “best” friends but the one’s I have are stellar. Case in point: The other night my friend Dan Broggi and I were enjoying a cold beer at a local pub. I was telling Dan that I had just looked at a small remodeling job which…
A past client, and referral from my plumber, called me this week and asked me to build her a closet where this desk now sits. See my past post on the importance of trades referrals. Her bedroom has no closets and this project will give her a 24″ deep by 8′ long closet. The closet…
Decorative Columns: Orders Of Architecture The classical orders are ancient styles of building design distinguished by their proportions and their characteristic profiles and details, but most quickly recognizable by the type of “column” and “capital” used. With decorative columns, there are five so-called classical orders, which are named Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, Tuscan, and Composite. Each…
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