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3 Cost Saving Bathroom Remodeling Ideas

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When it comes to remodeling your home, bathroom remodeling tends to provide the biggest ROI (return on investment). It’s not too difficult to understand why bathroom remodeling trumps other projects either. When buyers are looking at homes, they often take the bathrooms into special account for several reasons.

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Tips to Help you Create Beautiful Functional Bathrooms

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Whether you have a small space or you are lucky enough to have a larger space, making sure your bathroom is functional is important when remodeling. Whether you dash in and out of your bathroom, or spend a lot of time in it, a room that flows easily and meets a homeowner’s needs, is a space that will stand the test of time.

5 Ways to Make Your Bathroom More Functional
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What You Need to Know for Historical Home Renovations

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Any home renovation can be a challenge. You have to consider the home’s architecture, the best use of space for your family, traffic patterns, and the interior design. Typical home renovations aren’t the same as historical home renovations. This type of renovation poses a unique set of challenges that homeowners must overcome in order to complete a successful project.

Tackling historical home renovations one step at a time is the best way to make sure you will be satisfied at the end of the project. Finding professionals you trust is also essential to project success. Select your renovation team based on their experience with historic renovations and their portfolio of work.

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The Advantages of Hiring Professional Home Renovators

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So, you have some home renovation projects that you want to be done?

You’ve entertained the idea of doing them yourself, but are unsure how to do them correctly, and then there’s the time situation.  Do you have the spare time it will take?  Maybe.  Maybe not.  Well, consider hiring a professional builder and remodeler!

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Our Favorite Bathroom Fans

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Panasonic Whisper Green Select bathroom fans

 

Bathroom fans … Do you need one?

One of the major reasons we need to remodel bathrooms is mold and mildew damage. Removing the mold and mildew is the easy part … but keeping it at bay can be challenging. One of the best ways we’ve found to remove the moisture and keep mold and mildew away is the Panasonic Whisper Green Select bathroom fan.

Bathrooms are usually small and poorly ventilated, maybe with a small window that doesn’t properly ventilate the room. There is a tendency for moisture to build up, condense and cause all sorts of moisture related issues. A bathroom fan is the perfect solution for removing moisture and condensation. Continue reading

Protecting your Rights in Home Improvement Projects

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Before you sign, know your rights!

Recently, Pennsylvania Governor Corbett signed into law an amendment to the Home Improvement Contract law that requires any home improvement contract include the sales price or a time and materials provision.

This is good news for consumers and something that reputable builders and remodelers always did  anyway!  Protecting your rights is important! The key is awareness so that homeowners seeking the services of a builder or remodeler take the time to review the contracts offered and ensure they follow the law.  Specifically contracts are to outline: Continue reading

Crown Moulding and an Arch

We recently completed a small home remodeling project that made a huge difference for our Downingtown PA client.  She had owned and lived in the home for more than 10 years and wanted to add a little more pop and interest to the first floor living area.  She was ready to remodel and was interested in having decorative crown moulding installed which we were happy to do. With 9′ ceilings in the home, we recommended a 4 5/8″ crown moulding to give the proper sense of mass and strength.  However, she also asked for our direction and recommendations on what could be done between her kitchen and dining room, which as you can see, lacked definition.  She just felt like it needed something more.

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Introducing Gutter Dome

Master’s Design Build Group is proud to announce the launch of a new division, Bucks Mont Gutter Dome.  Yes, we are very pleased to have been approved as an Authorized Dealer for Gutter Dome, the permanent solution to the annual problem of clogged, overflowing gutters.  Gutter Dome is guaranteed to keep leaves, pine needles, roof grit, seed pods, whirly birds and virtually all other debris from entering your gutters.  We have created a new page on our website www.masters-designbuild.com with several reviews that you can check out.  Continue reading

Contractor of the Year

Well, it is Contractor of the Year time again.  In less than two weeks, the Bucks Mont Chapter of the National Association of the Remodeling Industry will have our “Evening of Excellence.  Master’s Craft, now the Master’s Design Build Group, has entered three projects in the following categories: Addition Under 100,000; Kitchen from $40,000 to $80,000; and Kitchen from $80,000 to $120,000.  We have won two previous times, in 2009 for the Best Exterior Under 100,000.  We actually won a Regional Contractor of the Year Award for that project.  In fact, you can watch the video of us receiving the Award here on You Tube:  Master’s Craft Wins Regional CotY.

We will keep you in the loop as soon as we find out the results of the judging.