Design Dilemma | Home Design Find - Part 3

Home Design Find

How to Hire A Contractor – Design Dilemma

There are good contractors and bad contractors. A friend of ours hired a bad contractor who was recommended by another workman on his property. After a very sloppy job, many absences, and a long delay on the project, the story ended sadly — in a wrestling match and a court date. However, your own experience [...]

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Design Dilemma: Decorating Choices that Deliver

There’s nothing more fantastic in the world of interior design than to pull together a room that feels unique. These are rooms that don’t particularly echo one design trend, but feel curated, cultivated, quirky. And the best thing is when they include some element that is totally unexpected. What are we talking about? Well, here [...]

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Design Dilemma: Ideas for Shared Bedrooms

As houses have gotten bigger over the years, a lot of kids out there have gotten kind of spoiled. Decades ago, it was common for two siblings or more to share a bedroom. With the McMansion boom, that tendency changed, but the latest news is that more and more people are trading in their over-sized [...]

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Design Dilemma: Color Tips and Paint Tricks

Want a quick but dramatic change at home? Get out that bucket of paint! There’s no easier option for completely changing the feel of any room. What a shame that so many of us never take full advantage of the multitude of paint possibilities. Consider, for a moment, how different each of these “period” rooms [...]

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Design Dilemma: 5 Options for Organizing Gadgets

A few years ago, we were all worrying about how to organize our growing collection of books. Remember bookshelves? But this is 2012, and these days we’re concerned not about organizing books but a growing collection of electronic devices, including our Kindles, Nooks, Ipads, Iphones, Netbooks, cellphones, external hard drives, flash drives and other assorted [...]

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