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What’s a Homeowner to Do? By Larissa Lytwyn/Life@Home Stephen Fanuka is a second-generation contractor (he learned everything he knows from his Croatian-born father) who decided to do something unique:...
View ArticleProblem Solved: Updating a downstairs half-bath
By Brianna Snyder/Life@Home The problem: Updating a downstairs half bath to a more contemporary, customized design. The solution: The first stop, says Mary Korzinski, co-owner of Custom Design...
View ArticleRe-Design: fix your house to love your home
Be It Ever So, So Humble By Brianna Snyder/Life@Home Right now, an estimated 18 million single-family homes have “underwater” mortgages, the architect Duo Dickinson points out in his recent book,...
View ArticleHome Repair: 12 pointers from the pro
How to Get Your Dream Remodel By Laurie Lynn Fischer/Life@Home Make your dream house a reality! Here are a dozen suggestions from Capital Region remodeling experts: 1. Prepare. Remodeling projects...
View ArticleProblem Solved: New windows, more space transforms kitchen
This Little Light of Mine By Larissa Lytwyn/Life@Home Problem: This dark, cramped Delmar kitchen needed to open up. Solution: Patricia Miller of Patricia Lauren Miller Designs replaced the space’s tiny...
View Article@Home With: An 18th-century dream house transformed into a 21st-century dream...
All Work and Play By Bryanna Snyder/Life@Home Not many of us get to grow up to live in our actual dream house. But Jim Pettit got to do just that. He grew up right around the corner from the...
View ArticleThe Krasses take matters of their house into their own hands
Raising the Roof By Brianna Snyder/Life@Home They say if you want something done right, you have to do it yourself. When Paul and J’Lene Krass consulted several different contractors to remodel the...
View ArticleA Niskayuna house is the perfect renovation lab for this interior designer
A Do-Over Dream By Brianna Snyder/Life@Home The creative juices flow freely in the DeLaCruz family. Valerie DeLaCruz is an interior designer, author of Life@Home’s Home Decor@518 blog, photographer and...
View ArticleDesign Defined: Salvaging the Barn
By Lucianna Samu/Life@Home Uncertainty keeps my design ego in check. Uncertainty is different than a lack of confidence. Uncertainty is competent and confident design with an asterisk. Even when the...
View ArticleHome Life: Surviving a Kitchen Redo
Story and photos by Wendy Page/Life@Home It began when our appliances simultaneously mutinied. One burner on the range died. The compressor in our freezer broke. The piece of the microwave covering the...
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