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You (Probably) Don't Need That Addition

6/30/2024

 
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​The goal of this post is to save you money.  Maybe a whole bunch of money.
 
I get to meet a lot of people – almost exclusively inside their homes – and many of them tell me they need more space.  I hear a near-constant chorus of “If only my house were bigger.”  Some of those people do really need more space; most though just need to think about their house differently.  It’s easy to get tunnel vision about your house – you spend so much time there that it’s hard to imagine the dining room being anything different than overflow storage, or your coat closet not being a pantry.  In fact, just this past week, a potential client, Tina, called me to talk about an addition she thought she needed.  
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Should I Stay or Should I Go

10/23/2016

 
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When The Clash wrote the song, they must have been talking about real estate, right?  If you own a house, I’m guessing you’ve asked yourself this more than once.  Based on the number of TV shows dedicated to the topic, I’m guessing almost everyone has. In a vacuum, it’s a nearly impossible question to answer.  There are just too many variables.  So let’s try to break it down to help decide if you’re going to renovate or move.

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wait...you can make this house look like that?!

1/5/2015

 
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Happy New Year!!

I'm not much in to resolutions...why choose some arbitrary day of the year to start doing something good?  If it's good or is something that needs to happen, start doing it today - like right now.

With that in mind, let's take a look at the first phase of a remodeling project; that initial step that that gets you from the house you have now to the house you've always wanted.

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How to go modern without being "that" house

12/12/2014

 
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Are you interested in modern architecture?  Are you interested in potentially making your house bigger one day?  Would you like to combine the two previous questions and put a modern addition on your house?  For most people these days, the answer to all 3 questions is yes.  The big “but”
comes in some variation of, “But if I put a modern addition on my house, won’t it stick out like a sore thumb in my otherwise-traditional neighborhood?”

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