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Now that you’ve gotten organized and educated, you can start sorting through your ideas for putting your design together. Start sifting through all of your photos and samples you’ve gathered and see if you find a pattern. Are most of the photos of kitchens one style or color of wood? Do most of the bathrooms

Becoming an educated consumer of home improvement and construction products is  time consuming and not nearly as fun as picking out colorful fun materials, unless you’re a techno-nerd. If you are, you’re one of the special people, we all know it. Please don’t gloat. For the rest of us who don’t find reading spec sheets

After delineating your “Scope of Work”, or your “Wish List”, it’s time to create a system that will keep you organized as you  begin to educate yourself about all of the different products available on the market that relate to your project needs. Establishing your system to organize your research is a crucial component for

“Where to start ?” is a question I get asked by family and friends as well as clients, all the time.  Before finding a professional to work with, I highly suggest that you start getting your ideas in order. The type of project that you decide on may determine which type of professional you will

Before settling on a General Contractor, Specialized Trade Contractor or Handyman, the best way to make sure that contractor is “On The Level” is to take the precautionary measure of checking them out. Checking references is often an uncomfortable exercise. Most people would rather clean public toilets than pick up the phone and ask to

Many advantages can be found in a Design-Build style General Contractor for folks looking to remodel, rebuild, or desire to create a new custom home. Although there are not as many of these types of General Residential Construction companies, it’s worth the hunt to find a good one. The reason they are few and far

Cost Plus Contracts In this post, I’m going to try and clear up some of the confusion surrounding the Cost Plus type of contract. If you thought that the Fixed Price Contract was confusing, wait till you see this. But if you remember that, “Nothing good comes easy” (I didn’t make that up), you’ll love

Those in the legal know will tell you, there can be as many different kinds of contracts as there are agreements between people, but in the construction world you will find that they fall into two basic types: 1. Fixed Price 2. Cost Plus I can only give a much abbreviated explanation in this post.