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Basement Renovation Reveal! Contact Renovations blog

Basement Renovation Reveal!

Check out this basement reno reveal for inspiration that you can use in your own basement project. From the barn door to the spa-like bathroom to the compact laundry room, it has all the practical features you need.

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Benefits of a Folding Window System, Contact Renovations blog

Benefits of a Folding Window System

If you don’t want a range hood suspended from your kitchen ceiling, consider installing a downdraft range hood instead. Want to see a downdraft range hood in action? Check out the video below, and learn all about it.

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Benefits of a Downdraft Range Hood, Contact Renovations blog

Benefits of a Downdraft Range Hood

If you don’t want a range hood suspended from your kitchen ceiling, consider installing a downdraft range hood instead. Want to see a downdraft range hood in action? Check out the video below, and learn all about it.

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How to Reconfigure Your Space, Contact Renovations blog

How to Reconfigure Your Space

If you’re living in a home with lots of closed-off rooms, you might want to improve the flow from one area to another. Here are some tips for how to reconfigure your space, from a recent main floor renovation we just completed. Opening up the walls between the rooms really gave this home a better flow.

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Maximize Space in a Small Bathroom Design, Contact Renovations blog

Maximize Space in a Small Bathroom Design

Converting a small space such as a closet into a small bathroom? There are often existing features that make it challenging to fit a bathroom into the space, but I’ve got some tips and ideas to make it easier. This area that we recently finished renovating was once a powder room with an adjacent closet, but we have transformed it! Check out how to make the window in the shower a feature, how to fit in some storage, and how to work around the plumbing stack.

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Modernizing Your 1980s Home Exterior, Contact Renovations blog

Modernizing Your 1980s Home Exterior

So you live in a classic 1980s house, and you want to modernize the exterior? Check out this video for tips on how to modernize the outside of your home. The classic exterior features such as brick arches and five-panel bay windows can be altered to give a totally new look, and the bonus is that the updated version is lower maintenance.

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Level up Your Kitchen Renovation, Contact Renovations blog

Level up Your Kitchen Renovation

You may have a budget for your kitchen renovation in mind, but you can also invest a bit more in some areas to level up your kitchen. These details won’t add a huge amount to your budget in the overall scheme of things, but they will upgrade your kitchen and add an extra punch. Walk through this recent renovation project with me and see how these details really make this kitchen shine.

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the ultimate guide to kitchen renovation, Contact Renovations blog

The Ultimate Guide to Kitchen Renovation

So this is the year—the year you will actually bring that kitchen you’ve been dreaming about into reality. It’s time to renovate your kitchen and give it a fresh (and functional!) new look. But what do you need to know before you dive in? Keep reading for all the details you might not have considered about a kitchen renovation. Knowing these details will help you know what to talk to your contractor about.

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Kitchen Remodel Reveal, Contact Renovations blog

Kitchen Remodel Before and After

This kitchen was a u-shaped kitchen that got a full remodel to make it much more spacious! Watch the video for a full before and after, and keep reading for tips and ideas you can use from this kitchen project!

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Replace Your Entry Door: What You Need to Know, The Art of Renovation with Paul Foster

Replace Your Entry Door: What You Need to Know

So it’s time to give your home a new look, and replace that entry door. But what do you need to know about doors to be able to pick a good one? In this video, I go through the types of entry doors, or front doors, that you can choose, and what are the pros and cons of each type!

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Update Dated Home Entryway

Tips to Update a Dated Brick Arch Home Entryway

Want to update your home entryway? Your entryway is one of the first parts of your home that your guests will see, so you want it to look fresh and up-to-date. In this project, we wanted to keep some of the brick, while also giving the entryway a fresh look.

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