House Design

A patio remodeling project opens lots of possibilities for expanding living areas into the outdoors.

Whether you’re looking to freshen up an existing patio or starting from scratch, patio remodeling can create outdoor rooms that will enhance your life at home.

Consider a eye-catching surface for your patio, such as concrete pavers, bricks or tile. Stone pavers spaced to allow a planting green, like dichondra or chamomile, help create an inviting space. Create a “rug” for your outdoor patio with a border of colorful and durable ceramic tiles.

Patios offer options to create sheltered outdoor rooms. Add a

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Every day hundreds of homes are inspected across the USA by our employee inspectors. We want to recognize the work they do and allow you to become more familiar with the U.S. Inspect home inspectors you may encounter. Meet Tom Short from our Northern Virginia Area Home Inspection Team.

Tell our audience what you like most about being a home inspector. “What I like most about being a home inspector is seeing every imaginable type of home and meeting just as wide an array of people!”

What do you do when not working for US Inspect?

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As an architect, Addison Mizner is strongly associated with Palm Beach and Boca Raton, where he designed Spanish and Mediterranean Revival buildings throughout the 1920s, helping to give the area its distinctive look and creating his legacy as the creator of Florida home design

But Naples managed to capture a bit of Mizner’s magic, too.

Here, there are two homes that are commonly considered to be the work of Mizner: The Timken House on Eighth Avenue South and a home that for many years was called The Whiteside House, located at 670 Gulf Shore Blvd. S. The latter recently underwent a three-year historical preservation and renovation.

The Whiteside House has since been renamed Casita de la Playa and is for sale. I

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You guys, IKEA sent me a tree.

I was as surprised as youd be to get a tree in the mail. (Ok, it was just a seedling, so its not as dramatic as getting, say, a Christmas tree in the mail.) But apparently, IKEA is big on trees as we all should be. (For instance, did you know that IKEA will match your donation to American Forests to help restore our forests? Rock.)

But IKEA sent me a tree this week because on October 1 (this Saturday), theyre giving away 38,000 free seedlings at surprise locations near their 38 U.S. stores.

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Landscape Lights are an impressive part of any Residential Landscape Design Project. They may not be as important as what you put under the ground, but then again, you don’t look at what’s in the ground every day. Find the Perfect Finishing Touches to complete your Landscape Design and Backyard Getaway atinsideouthomeadditions.com they have a variety of outdoor lighting ideas.