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Ideas For Your Home Addition

By building a home addition, homeowners can make their homes more livable, while also increasing its value. A home addition allows you to comfortably stay in a home and neighborhood you like without incurring the expenses and inconvenience of moving. The idea is to increase space by building on, up, out, down, or in any direction from the existing home structure in order to create additional living space and enhance the quality of life within your home.



Ground Level Home Additions

The first step is to sit down and think about all the ways in which you could expand your ground floor. For those that live on a thousand acre ranch this should be no problem, but most of us have a finite amount of space to work with. In fact, the majority of homeowners are constantly trying to maximize what little property they have. Expanding the ground floor is wise because it appeals to home buyers, should the time come for you to sell one day. Ground level additions are also convenient for households that have elders living in the house because it eliminates the need for difficult stairs.

If you do decide to go with a ground level addition, you will have to prepare for the addition to expand into your yard and change the shape of your home. The most common addition is the one that expands into the back of your yard. Many people will add a sunroom or extend their living area in this way. It is popular to do this because the addition won’t change the look of your home from the street. For those of you with large yards you shouldn’t have problem, however, if your yard is small you will need to determine property lines.



Second Story Home Additions

Another popular addition is when you build onto the second story of your house, such over a garage. Building up is a little trickier because you will have to schedule your addition during cooperative weather conditions. During a second story addition there will be a time when a portion of your roof will be open and you do not want poor weather conditions entering into your house. Keep in mind, depending on the situation it is sometimes less expensive to build up because there won't be any need for foundation building.

Want to build your own cabinets.. We'll show you how to get started....

Everyone enjoys the look and feel of fine wood furniture. It has a warmth and elegance that enhances every home. With the prices of quality wood furniture increasing, many do it yourselfers are making their own custom pieces. In this article we are going to show you the correct way to start the project and how to find the right tools and understand the correct key words and terms about cabinet building.

Planning:

Before you begin, plan to gather the items that you will be using, and place them where you will build the cabinet.

Let's simplify things a little and look at the basic components you will be working with to build your cabinet.



Basic Cabinet Components:

Kick-plate

Carcass

Strong-back

Face frame

Doors

Drawers (optional)

False Front



Terminology:

Before you begin your project, you will want to become familiar with the wood working terms shown below.

Miter Cut - Angle cut across the width or thickness of the board

Rabbet - L-shaped cut

Dado - Channel cut across the board, into which a second piece of wood is fitted

Kerf - Width of the blade

Countersink - To set a screw head at or below the surface

Dowel - Wooden pin used to provide strength and alignment

AA Lumber - Lumber which has a good finish on both sides.

Ripping - A cut with the grain

Crosscutting - A cut across the grain

Shim - A thin, wedge-shaped piece of wood used for leveling or spacing.

But Joint - The square end of one piece butting up against the flat surface or end of another piece.


Materials:

Because of the size of the lumber involved in this project, you need an extra person to help with cutting some of the wood. Plan ahead so your "Assistant" is available at the appropriate times.

Wood Selection:

Before you purchase your wood and select a finish for your cabinet, you should ask yourself some simple questions about how you plan to use and display it in you home, Where will the cabinet be located? Do the dimensions of the cabinet fit properly in the space you have allowed for it?

You can use a plywood that has a furniture grade veneer on only one side (AB plywood), since only one side will be visible. Plywood with a finished veneer on both sides (AA) can also be used for a top quality look. Face frames of solid oak will be used to cover the plywood when necessary.

Similar to laying a pattern out on a piece of cloth, often you can cut several different pieces of the same thickness of wood out of a single piece. It is a good idea to add up the total number of boards, being careful to make sure you group short pieces in with long pieces to minimize waste.

We hope this little clip will help you gain understanding of the planning and preparation it takes to build custom kitchens. We provide layouts and drawings for all of our kitchens before submitting them to our builders. For basic layouts that require standard sizes, our suppliers have the "boxes" already finished ready for the type of door needed to finish the job.

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The For Sale - Housing Market is suffering, but Home Improvements and Remdoeling is the Way to GO.

At the beginning of this year I wondered about the housing market, and how could this crazy trend of flipping houses and new condo sales keep up from the last 3 years. Sooner than later stories began rising out of our communities that home owners were not able to keep up with their adjustable arm mortgages, and fluctuating interest rates. Some HOA (Home Owner Association) payments were doubling trying to keep up with the increases in insurance and property taxes, making those new condos undesirable and the investors unable to rent them out without substantial losses.

In my onion this market will flat line by the end of this year before some new legislation and government assistance will have to be utilized to help pick up the housing market in 2008. From then to now, home owners will have to either sit tight in their homes or take lower than ever offers on their homes for sale.

But we still have to take in to consideration that real estate is still the best investments we can make. The value of money (currency) will always depreciate since the government is always printing more currency than we have gold. Keeping our money inside of banks and CD's are probably not the best idea since there are formulas that show that over a 40 year period the value of one dollar will decrease to just 5 cents. This is why us, as investors or even just home owners in Central Florida, should hold on to our investments because we are growing as a city and our homes are still are best investments with low risks.



I started a Home Improvement Company that focuses on Remodeling and Improving for these reasons. My goal is to improve my client’s homes so that their investments are more enjoyable and more appealing for higher sales offers when wanting to sell the properties down the road. The upgrades we can offer also help increase the appraised value of the property, helping clients refinance and getting the extra money out needed to weather the storm in our housing economy. Visit my site and find out if Home Improvements or Remodeling might be something you could be interested in.

Prestigecore LLC update: Middle of the year

I wanted to be the first to thank all of our clients we had this year and all of the projects we had a chance on working on. August is almost here, and business has been steady but we are motivated to get more work. Before signing any contracts let our team give you a free quote and see if we can beat their prices. We excel in customer service, and strive to make every job fit into your budget and time constraints.



We have wholesale vendors for Kitchen cabinets, countertops, granite, flooring, and all the talented contractors to install additions, pool houses, game rooms, and garages. Email us today and see what a difference we can make

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Save Money by Using PrestigeCore to Fix your bathtub instead of Replacing it. We are located right here in Orlando, FL

Thinking about replacing your bathtub, or wanting to change the color theme of your bathroom?

The biggest center peice of your bathroom is your vanity area and bathtub. Most clients ask us to remove the bathtub when we begin a remodeling project in their home. To keep the cost down, and be more efficient with time restraints we look to fix, prime, and re-coat the bathtubs to color match the customers needs. This way we skip breaking tiles and damaging door frames moving the bathtub out of the bathroom area. A job that would cost a little more than a thousand dollars can be done for less than five hundred dollars.

Call Prestigecore @ (407) 256-0397 to find out how we can save you money on your Remodeling project.

Summer Kitchens are adding tons of value, and are great for entertaining your guests!!

Although they are one of the hottest new home design features, summer kitchens are an update of an old idea. Before air conditioning and electric stoves, a summer kitchen provided a place to cook while keeping heat, as well as dangerous cooking fires, out of the main house. Today, they're strictly about convenience and enhanced leisure time.

A basic summer kitchen might have a large grill, sink and small refrigerator set in an island with plenty of counter space and storage. A top-of-the-line installation could add a bar with an icemaker, a wine cooler, grill side burners and even a dishwasher, deep fryer or pizza oven. Designs are limited only by budget, space and imagination
(excerpt from Biz Journal)

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Whats the difference between Granite and Marble?

The main difference between granite and marble is that granite is a highly dense material composed deep inside the earth's core while marble is formed from sediments under the seabed. Both solidify into stone after millions of years but the mineral composition of the two stones makes marble and granite react differently to various chemicals and household cleaners.

Granite is an igneous rock of visible crystalline formation and texture. It is composed primarily of feldspar, quartz, and mica. It starts off as liquid magma deep within the earth?s core where it is cooled and compressed over millions of years under tons of pressure. It is then quarried, cut and polished. After that process it can be applied in various ways like kitchen countertops, vanity tops, fireplace surrounds as well as Jacuzzi surrounds and other custom designs.

Because granite is a natural material and is mined from the quarry in blocks usually no more than 10? long, you will most likely end up with seams. Also, because granite is sold in rectangular pieces, you may want to use seams to reduce your costs, such as in an "L" shaped corner. The visibility of seams will depend on the granularity, color and pattern. A small, uniform grain (such as Uba Tuba) will not be as apparent as a larger varied grain (such as Peacock Green). A dark color (Platinum) will be less apparent than a light color (Imperial White). A dramatic pattern with swaths of color (Kinawa, Paradiso) will show more seams than a uniform pattern (Dakota Mahogany). Most customers have found that the beauty of natural granite outweighs the concern of seams.

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