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…
Tile flooring takes a stand in high traffic areas
The floors in the high traffic areas of your home can really take a beating. From every guest who walks through the front door of your home to the countless…
Patio esplndido
The new outdoor living space behind an historic home in the Grandview Heights/Marble Cliff neighborhood has several dramatic features: a large tiered pergola, a striking flagstone patio and a two-sided…
Bathtubs let you soak in style
It is thought that the first individual size bathtub—a 5-foot-long piece of pottery—was enjoyed on the Greek island of Crete somewhere around 3300 BC. It is said that a few…
Kitchen remodel is like night and day
Sometimes it’s the little things that make kitchen design ideas go from dream to reality. In the case of Nancy and George Hamilton, it was the overhead, overbearing, pentagonal-shaped soffit…
Landscaping ideas fit for a palace
According to Pat Perrino, custom floor plans set him apart from the competition in the custom home building field. Therefore, it is no surprise that his own home is a…