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It all starts with an image in your mind, then must get translated into drawings, before something truly excellent can be built. Read Lisa's blog about our process at:
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Bathroom remodel in Oakland
Running Warm and Cool
Have you ever counted the different materials that make up one room? Even in a small bathroom, there will be metal, wood, stone, tile or linoleum, plastic, glass and porcelain. How can you harmonize these various elements with their different textures, colors, and surfaces?
An important way to look at materials is in terms of their warm and cold qualities. It's easy to determine the effect most materials will have on the room. For example, stone will cool it down, but not if you select a red, pink or gold marble. Metals imbue the room with coolness, but you can warm them up with a brushed nickel or antique bronze finish. Wood contributes warmth to the ambience, but can be cooled down by painting it white, grey, green or blue.
How can you get them to blend agreeably in one area? The answer is balance. Color is the major balancing ingredient, with reflective surface a close second. Make sure you don't have too much of one color, texture, or surface quality in close proximity.
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Kitchen remodel in Richmond
Maximizing Storage Space
Do you have 'dead space' in your kitchen? This doesn't refer to the Bermuda Triangle into which your missing items disappear. Dead space is the square area that cabinet configuration missed, usually because it's in a corner where two counters merge.
There are several solutions for that space beside letting it collect cobwebs and be of no service to you. Here are two:
- A stacking Lazy Susan can be placed in a corner cabinet that goes so deep, you simply don't bother to use it. By rotating the several plates of the Lazy Susan around, you can store and access canned goods, spices, and any other kitchen items that fit on it.
- You can install a glide-out shelf such as the one in the above photo. It is configured to maneuver in and out of the dead space with ease while providing you with ample tray surface to store items. There is another identical pull-out tray shelf underneath.
Before you replace old cabinets in any room, that is an excellent opportunity to design not only the look of them but their arrangement in the room to minimize dead space.
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"Cooking with Soul: Solar Cookers"
Read Lisa's article about Solar Cookers, devices that use the power of the sun and are helping many poor people in developing countries: Go to:
www.greenremodeling.org
Click on "Consumer Resources" at the top of the page, then click on "Articles".
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