Welcome Our New Contributor:: Jessica Brylan

We at A2D are excited to announce our new contributor: Jessica Brylan of Ventless Gel Fireplace.Jessica is a self-described home improvement expert with a great deal of experience remodeling homes, building homes, and designing homes. We're so glad that she will be sharing [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 17:50:00

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New Blog Shows You How to Spruce Up Your Listings

By Melissa Dittmann Tracey, REALTOR Magazine It's time to get those listings styled, staged and sold! ... ' Show in Las Vegas, including design forecasts, new home product innovations, and inside looks ... , remodeling, staging, and design psychology. If you have something to say about home & design in real [more...]

Date: 2009-01-21 05:40:29

Top 10 Home Decorating Trends for 2009

Susan Felt Gannett News Service Remember flocked wallpaper? It’s back. But it’s not your mother’s wallcovering ... year. Whether you are designing a custom home, remodeling or simply looking for inspiration, here ... the residential-interior runway are moody shades such as charcoal, espresso and peacock blue. 3 Flocked [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 20:38:57

How To Lower Your Home Remodeling Cost

by Kaye Fretz Reducing your overall home remodeling cost isn’t rocket science. The only thing required is some creative planning. Read through this article to discover the secret to renewing your home without the large expenses. First, think about what style you want. There are classical designs you might be interested [more...]

Date: 2008-12-10 10:05:15

Make Your Listing Beautiful, Make it Sell: New Blog!

How can you get those listings styled, staged and sold? ... " home and remodeling trends, strategies for using design psychology, and more. This week the blog unveils the latest home product innovations and design trends from the 2009 International Builders' Show [more...]

Date: 2009-01-21 05:35:39

Houses That Sit — Blue Carpet, Bad Feng Shui, Bad Design

I couldn’t resist bringing to light a funny blog post I saw recently by Robin Rogers of San Antonio ... and what homes will sit. Need to be inspired? View some gorgeous kitchen remodeling, bathroom remodeling, and bedroom remodeling ideas in our home improvement hub, Dueling Digs. You might even see a blue carpet [more...]

Date: 2008-12-01 20:48:17

Getting Started In Your Bathroom

Getting Started In Your Bathroom January 20th, 2009 — Home Bathroom designs are often given low priority while home remodeling or construction. But it does not always have to be that way [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 18:41:09

Remodeling Tricks For Your Old Bedroom

by Alix Montoya There are literally hundreds of ideas for simple remodeling jobs for an old bedroom available in the market nowadays ... , your bedroom is your refuge during troubling times. Keep in mind that you need to keep it as cozy ... Tags: bedroom, building, construction, contractor, design, fabric, Home & Garden, home improvement [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 08:41:07

Transform Your Room to it’s Best Form

The trend nowadays is to remodel your home as popularized by interior designers ... , bathroom rugs and the likes. On top of that, they also offer a How-To guide for area rugs that explains [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 12:47:07

The Old Dairy by Thomas De Cruz Architects

Thomas De Cruz Architects provided a contemporary design for the remodel of this Victorian home in south-west London ... the garden into the house and to flood the previously dingy Victorian interior with an abundance [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 11:03:08

Would You Use an Interior Designer?

What are the reasons why you would or would not work with an interior designer? That’s one of the hot topics being discussed in Home Remodeling and Repair in Zillow Discussions.  Personally, I’ve never used an interior designer — and come to think of it, I don’t know anyone who has [more...]

Date: 2008-10-16 22:00:32

Joe The Handyman

From Nicole Gaudiano at Gannett News Service:Vice President-elect Joe Biden hand-selected every light fixture and doorknob in his Greenville, Del ... Digest and sketch home designs in his spare time. His "number one hobby" is his home, said ... brick Victorian that is the vice president's residence comes with some remodeling limitations, even [more...]

Date: 2008-11-30 11:43:00

Changing the World One Room at a Time

Changing the World One Room at a Time posted by Ronnie Citron-Fink Jan 4, 2009 11:00 am filed under: Blogs, Blogs, EcoNesting, economics, home design, New Year, rebuilding refurbishing, recycling, redesigning, rediscovering, reducing, refinishing, remixing, remodeling, repairing, repurposing, reselling, reusing [more...]

Date: 2009-01-04 19:00:09

Solving the Stairway Dilemma

One of the problems with living in a home during substantial remodeling is the sometimes piecemeal approach you must take to projects out of shear ... have plans to do a craftsman-ish trim design on the center column, which will focus on three raised ... that best matched the vintage 1912 trim in the house, and we even mixed different stains together [more...]

Date: 2008-12-15 14:02:00

the things around us

If you’ve been reading here for awhile you might remember me writing about the remodeling of our basement into a studio/playspace ... in your own home.  I have a feeling this is common among designers. So for the past 8 years our house ... with that.  We have a lovely, light filled, 1950’s house that is perfect for us.  It’s not exactly how I want [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 14:46:15

Home Improvement Bleg — Now With Picture!

So I’m in the process of a (protracted) kitchen remodel ... like gold in my house. So my question to the bloggy masses is this: What to do with that plumbing ... to do a gut remodel when finances allow. At this point, we’re just in the ideas & preliminary design [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 17:01:35

Checking in with the DWR Kitchen

People who are gearing towards a modern kitchen design are bound to get good ideas from this masterpiece by Nilus de Matran ... is a Science Laboratory! Silver Nano Washing Machines for Healthier Living Remodeling? Start with the Small Spaces Nurseryworks The Duet Twin Bed Mobile Fireplaces hitting Modern Homes Soon Making Your Bedroom [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 06:53:50

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