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Lighting Tips for Your Bathroom
Lighting is one of the essential elements in any room, particularly in a bathroom. Lighting designers always recommend a layered approach to maximize ambiance and
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Why You Need to Hire a General Contracting Team
With the home shows in full swing, homeowners are getting excited about their home renovations, room refreshes, and décor updates. Many homeowners think they
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Tips to Make a Small Space Feel Bigger
Spring conjures up images of spring flowers, warmer weather, and longer days, but it also is a time for rebirth, rejuvenation, and regrowth. However, this
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Optimism is on Trend for 2022
It seems that most home renovation and design experts are choosing optimism as a theme for 2022 and we couldn’t agree more! The demand
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Reno Tips for a DREAM Kitchen
Designing a dream kitchen all comes down to the planning and design stage. By creating the best layout to suit your needs with maximum functionality
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9 Tips to Refresh a Room without an Entire Reno
Are you thinking about a refresh of some of your favourite rooms before the coming holidays? But not quite ready to leap into a
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Essential Bathroom Tips Part 2
In part two of our Essential Bathroom Tips blog, we will discuss walk-in showers, bathtubs, lighting, heated floors, fixtures, and sinks. If you missed part one
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Essential Bathroom Tips Part 1
Use these essential bathroom remodeling tips to bring your bathroom to life! Consider these essential bathroom tips in your next renovation. Bathroom renovations are trendy
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Emerging Design Trends for Your Home
Over the past year, we have noticed some emerging trends in home design. These emerging design trends are in kitchen cabinetry, bathroom tiles, flooring, colours,
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5 Design Elements for Creating the Best Multi-Purpose Room
Over the past 18 months are lives have changed and we’ve had to adapt. Even though life is slowly starting to get back to normal,
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5 Unique Tips to Create the Ultimate Home Spa
Summertime is almost here and it is the perfect time to renovate or upgrade your home. One of the most common rooms our clients want to
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5 Tips for Creating Seamless Indoor Outdoor Spaces
Sliding glass door allow for a seamless transition from indoor to outdoor space.
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10 Reasons Why Renovating Is Better Than Moving
Should You Remodel or Buy New? 1. Moving Cost Moving involves both monetary cost and time cost as someone will have to relocate all of
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How To Choose Tile
How do you choose the right tile for your home? Tiles are one of those materials that are unlike most other materials when renovating. It’s
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Make a ‘living’ space Your Own
In 2020 we were locked up in our homes most of the time – no wonder it profoundly influences us. Compare to previous years, the
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Pre-Built or Custom Kitchen?
The difference between prefab and custom built kitchens These days there is a lot of competition in the kitchen marketplace. Whether you choose a
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Price Vs Cost
What is the difference between price and cost? Price is the actual money or investment made in the product or service and cost is
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Starting A Renovation
When remodeling what should you do first? There are so many factors and nuances when starting a renovation so how do you get started? Do
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Planning Your Renovation
Where do you start when renovating? I assume by now you’ve already started the process of figuring out whether you’re going to use a contractor,
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How To Set a Budget for Your Home Renovation
How Much Should You Budget for Home Renovation? Why are we all so hesitant to tell someone our renovation budget? Is it because we think
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Construction Season
They say that Canada has two seasons – Winter and Construction Hahaha but it’s true. We are finally back in the construction season. Are
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Winter
Well, it still looks like Construction Season in Toronto because when I look outside my door the city is still doing the water main construction
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Simple DIYs around The House during Isolation
Well, we’re back to spring, and now the weather is finally giving us a break and hopefully here to stay. It’s time for spring