Mid Century Bathroom Remodel...

As the marketing person at The Artisans Group, part of my job is to coordinate photo shoots of our projects. Yesterday,  I had the opportunity to go  to a lovely bathroom remodel project we recently completed out on Cooper Point, with a 180 degree  view of Bud Bay.  The home originally started out as a cabin sometime in the early part of the last century, some time around the mid century the cabin was remodeled into a home with definitive modern architectural elements. Clean lines, large low pitched roof planes, pleasing geometry. The current homeowners had been living...

Green Remodeling Basics...

Green remodeling, just how elusive is it? Green building and energy efficiency are not the Holy Grail. You bet there are some measurable efficiency- standards out there that could make your socks roll up and down, but that’s in a different post. This post is of the super basic variety.  I want to give you a few ideas how you can tune-up your own home to achieve a level of ‘green‘ that you can measure in your monthly utility bills as well as the ‘Honey-do-you-feel-a-draft-in-here‘ factor. Some of these tips are easily done by an unsupervised...

Dual-Flush Converter...

Who hasn’t heard the phrase “water is the new oil“? Given that we are even coming up with phrases like that these days, indicates something must be up! It’s true, a person doesn’t have to try too hard to learn about rampant dwindling water resources if they are inclined that way. The challenge is in figuring out how to participate in not making matters worse. Here is a product that seems to be a manageable start to conserving water, the Hydroright Dual-Flush Converter. It’ll make a dual-flush toilet out of any current single-flush model....