The design, size, and style of a home is as individual as its owners. Features which were perfectly acceptable to the previous occupants may send you running back to the drawing boardor maybe for a chain saw and a sledge hammer. Remodeling is in our human programming. Put our DNA under a really powerful microscope and you'll find nucleic acid shaped like a tool box.    

We all bring ideas along when we move to a new home. Some call for a gourmet kitchen with nuclear-powered appliances and freezers so cold that NASA could use them to test their spacecraft. Other are as simple as replacing a 1940s bathroom. Your schemes and dreams should reflect your own needs, tastes, and budget, not the picture-perfect projects shown in high-end home design magazines.     Read more...