Remodeling ideas prove great minds think alike
As you step through the entry hall and into the spacious kitchen of this Chagrin Falls home, a calming wave of blue rolls over you, lowering your heart rate and…
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Landscape design leads to refreshing private paradise
Any parent understands just how much children love to play outside. And a big component of parenthood is to provide a safe environment for children to enjoy the great outdoors.…
Kitchen renovation for the first timers
Sam and Jennifer are engaged to be married. Along with planning a wedding, they took on the challenge of renovating their first home together. Sam and Jennifer lived in their…
Kitchen renovation for the empty nesters
Mike and Nancy lived in their Palm Harbor home with their three children for 28 years. “Once the kids started moving out, we started looking at the lifestyle we really…
Architectural designs are one with nature
Patience is a virtue, a saying that proved true for Sheila Geraci, the proud owner of a Prairie-style home on Lake Ann in Odessa. Sheila drove back a long, winding…
Swimming pool design is straight out of the playbook
Apparently, what works on the playing field, works in pool design as well. Tampa Bay Buccaneers running back Doug Martin knew exactly what he wanted when he decided to add…
Home makeover with a mission
As soon as someone tells you they set the alarm before five every morning to work out, you have a pretty good idea that this is someone who is driven…
Backyard puts the focus on free time
Just a few years ago on a corner in Upper Arlington, a vacant lot and side yard sat adjacent to an old world style house built in 2004. The owners…
Clean and bright home remodel
When Melissa and Tom Shanklin relocated to Columbus from New Jersey in 2009, they fell in love with the charm of Upper Arlington and a home that was built in…
Sweet revival
Among the city’s oldest areas is a Victorian neighborhood that Pittsburghers refer to simply as the Mexican War Streets. History shows that General William Robinson, Jr. plotted the Streets after…
Quartz countertop revolution
To turn a phrase, necessity is not the mother of invention—nature is. After all, Mother Nature has an imagination like no other, and she has given us many options for…
Tranquil landscape design redo
The back yard of Jennifer Shelhouse’s townhome was in dire need of a redo. It was cramped, linear and not particularly user-friendly. The “before” back yard, with its wood decking,…