Diane’s Thoughts
Essential Details Are Crucial For Your New Kitchen
Many essential details are crucial to achieving your ideal kitchen. What details are necessary to consider when you're thinking about remodeling your kitchen? The first is style. Fundamental Detail #1: What style appeals to you? Asian: Emphasis on natural materials,...
How Can You Avoid Construction Horror Stories?
How can you avoid construction horror stories? You can do it! These are not the typical ghost stories you hear around a campfire. But you may have heard your family and acquaintances talk about construction horror stories at social gatherings. Exceeding the budget....
Recent Topics: An Astounding Mashup!
Recent Topic #1: Appliances Recent topics are being revisited in this blog, starting with appliances. I was excited to visit the largest appliance store in Oregon, Standard TV & Appliance, to see the new Whirlpool “Sunset Bronze” appliances. They are elegant! The...
10 Awesome Remodeling Products For 2019
Ten awesome remodeling products are featured in this blog. Pro Remodeler recently listed 100 products, but most of them are for people in the construction industry, or products I've written about before. Honestly, the selections were disappointing. Maybe it's the...
Music: Profound, Powerful Influence In Our Lives
Music: Profound, Powerful Influence In Our Lives Music is a profound and powerful influence in our lives. From birth until death, music is there at every stage to comfort, inspire, motivate us in the most personal expression of who we are. Music has been the most...
The Exciting World of Color Revealed
The Exciting World Of Color Revealed Color: we're surrounded by it every waking moment. Sometimes we dream in color. As I sit here, looking out the window, I see hundreds, maybe thousands of different green hues, and a beautiful blue sky with cotton-ball clouds. Color...
Kitchen Remodeling Expectations: Honest, Reliable Input
Kitchen Remodeling Expectations: Honest, Reliable Input Kitchen remodeling expectations is a subject I talk about with homeowners at every first meeting with them. It's not uncommon to hear this comment, “We've called several contractors about our kitchen, but they're...
Conversation: Professional Contractor and Designer
Conversation: Professional Contractor and Designer The Conversation Begins The conversation between Larry Mock, a professional contractor, began over 13 years ago. I met him at a local NKBA meeting where we discovered that our attitude, experience and goals were...
10 Amazing Products Improve Your Home
"10 Amazing Products For Your Home" is the theme for this week's blog and podcast. Last week, I covered 11 of 21 top home products that got attention at this year's Kitchen and Bath Industry Show, the International Builders' Show, and magazines for construction...
Great Home Products!
GREAT HOME PRODUCTS! (#1 of 2) Great home products is a subject I love to talk and write about. This week's blog features 11 of the over 20 great home products I discovered in the past several weeks. Some of them are meant for remodeling and new construction, while...
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