Some cost saving thoughts: If you like modern style kitchens, and are ok with decent, not great, quality cabinets and – consider Ikea. You can get a small-medium kitchen installed for 15-20k. That’s a great price. http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/categories/departments/kitchen/?cid=us|ps|branded|EST_BR_Kitchen_Core|go|ikea_kitchensof co Consider joining Direct Buy , a subscription based purchasing club for ordering your own cabinets and appliances […]
Hmm, maybe that one?… House Hunting
OK, we’re house hunting and cruising around with a real estate agent, checking our potential home locations, the time is tight….So, which factors come into play when we assess the “go , no-go”? How many times will you go back to that house?…who else is bidding on it? What can we do with it? What […]
Rent or Buy? Move or improve?
Rent or Buy? Move or improve? Hmm…Has your house gotten a little too small? Have the quirks you once found charming about the place, just aren’t livable anymore? A few years ago, the answers were easier. With house values climbing an average of 40% from 2001 to 2005 and lenders handing out big checks […]
Yeah it’s about 400 square feet
If you did a double take when Bill Clinton said, “It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is.” , then you may love when folks discuss how big a building or house is. It always depends on who you ask and how you count those square feet: The generally accepted unit of […]
3 strategies for saving substantial construction costs
Of course customers want to know how much their project is going to cost. In the conventional model, many architects (and yes, sometime us) prepare drawings, a ballpark budget, spec’s and ultimately send it out to several trusted general contractors to get a lump sum bid…But what if that model is wrong? The answer is […]