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ORIGINAL BASEMENT: This home located in the Woods at Grey Eagle subdivision in Fishers was built as a custom spec home in 2005 and the homeowners moved in during 2006. According to the owners, “Although the basement was fairly nicely finished, we still wanted it more customized to our family’s needs. It was an alternative to moving – we took [...]
Find things you love and build around them. Designers will be the first to tell you that they’d rather not start from scratch. Their best work is a combination of what you love and what they know. – Karol DeWulf Nickell, Signature Style: Creating Beautiful Interiors Decorating a room requires falling head over heels in love with one stunning textile. [...]
Often, tasteful retrofits are designed to expand an existing sterile, underused outdoor living space into a fun magnet. Most of us have some sort of existing patio or deck, but it might simply lack the personality that prompts it to be inviting. Consequently, the sofa sees more action than the patio furniture. As with many exposed aggregate and concrete patios, [...]
No matter what you call it – sustainable, eco-friendly, or just plain green – a modern bathroom improvement project is about much more than being friendly to Mother Nature’s environment. It’s about being friendly to our family’s health as well. An older bathroom is generally the smallest, dampest, most energy-intensive, water-hogging, chemical-laden, smell-trapping, light-starved, material-sensitive, under-ventilated, traffic-jammed-up, malfunction-prone room in [...]
Original bathroom: This home located in the Bayhill subdivision on the east side of Carmel was built about 12 years ago. The homeowners have two sons, 25 and 30, and each has a disability. When they built the house, both boys were still walking, so they had their bathroom built with an Americans with Disabilities Act shower with wheelchair accessibility. As [...]
“Arachnophobia” is more than just a creepy movie; it’s a real condition involving real fears. And I certainly cannot fathom what it would be like to have such deep-rooted fear. It would cause hysterics upon sight of a spider. But then again, phobias are irrational fears and that’s pretty extreme. What makes perfect sense, of course, are those people without [...]
The biggest trend in home-improvement kitchen projects is … smaller projects. Called “face-lifts,” these projects refresh a kitchen “in place” without major structural change. Walls, appliances, wiring and plumbing tend to stay where they are, likely with upgrades or modifications. Cabinets, countertops, fixtures, lighting, flooring and technology take center stage. The housing market the past few years has dictated this [...]
The outdoor space, ambitiously-designed and created prior to our involvement, suited the family well. However, there was just a little something missing. The exposed aggregate patio was generous enough to house the several kids and the fire feature was getting enough use. But the spaces didn’t feel connected and the mister of the house wanted to fuel his passion for [...]
Original backyard setting: This home located in the Bayhill neighborhood in Carmel was built in the mid-90s. The existing backyard area was nicely landscaped and also included a simple wood deck. The family always wanted to add a screened porch, but due to the existing windows and the roof profiles,it had never been able to figure out how or where [...]
Certain home construction materials in certain applications just naturally provide a secure, confident, luxurious feel, and it’s hard to explain exactly why. I’d put stone tile shower flooring right at the top of that list. Beautiful and spa-like, wet stone feels great underfoot. Specially cut and contoured, tile is the top choice when it comes to putting down a new [...]
