Bathroom bling: The ultimate cabinet hardware designs
Most interior designers will tell you that the little things often make the biggest impact. Just like selecting the perfect pair of shoes to complete a favorite outfit, cabinet hardware…
Durable hardscape ideas
If you are planning to add a deck or replace an old wooden deck, one of many popular hardscape ideas, you might be considering composite material as a possible option.…
Outdoor living space is all about private luxury
Nemacolin Woodlands Resort is known for its luxurious hotel rooms, five-star dining and 2,000 acres of enviable private property. So it shouldn’t come as a surprise when Maggie Hardy Magerko,…
Decorating the windows to the soul
If the eyes are the windows to the soul, then the windows are the eyes of the home. Through windows, visitors and passersby can catch a glimpse of the homeowners…
Yard art answers the call of the wild
Images of Edward Scissorhands’ massive sheers frantically creating animal shapes in the back yards of suburbia seemed odd when the movie was released in the late-eighties. However, the topiaries have…
Cleaning stainless steel kitchen appliances
Stainless steel kitchen appliances are beautiful to look at, but they aren’t exactly maintenance free. If it seems like you’re always wiping away fingerprints or smudges, the experts at Sub-Zero…
Top trends in outdoor kitchens
Homeowners are spending more and more time in their back yards, so it is no wonder they are looking for ways to make it easier to entertain outdoors. Rather than…
Kitchen design of dreams
The best things in life are worth waiting for, and for Miles Smith and his wife Amy, it was a home that they had fallen in love with long before it…
Outdoor comforts in a backyard design
Miles Smith is not a stranger to Sewickley, or to home renovations. With his mother being an interior designer, the family renovated houses as a hobby. “Fortunately, I married someone with…
Landscape ideas were a natural choice
Those in search of a suburban lifestyle, with quick commutes to the airport and downtown Pittsburgh, may want to take a gander at Moon Township. Kathie and Dave surveyed it, fell…
Garden design embraces Asian serenity
A well-planned, properly situated and lovingly cared for Japanese garden design has a nearly mystical quality that creates an inner hush, punctuated only by the deep sigh brought about by…
Customized deck designs
Deck designs have come a long way from the standard 12 x 12-foot wooden structure attached to the back of a house. From the wide variety of decking and railing…