Designing / BuildingHome & Garden
You can modify anything at any point in time -- from the basic floorplans you find on your own to the final set of blueprints that you and a designer create together. However, after you get so far along in the process, there are likely to be fees or significant costs to modify a set of blueprints. Here are the steps we went through to design our custom log home.
John Anthony put together a nice little summary of what's hot and what's not in terms of home design and remodeling these days. John's report was based on research he conducted for the National Association of Realtors. I summarize them here to keep people thinking about 'the big picture' and the wide variety of options you have available to you when building or remodeling a home, based on current trends.
One way to use this is as an 'idea list'... to help you weigh out the pro's and con's of various bathroom features in order to ultimately determine your own 'wants' and 'needs' list for your own master bathroom. Another way you could use this list is to think of these things as some of the most often overlooked items in master bathrooms.
We recently attended the Log & Timber Home Show in Nashville. What follows is a summary of what we had HOPED to see at the show, and what we actually saw at this log home show. See why log home shows are great for the the person who is just starting to explore the concept of buying or building a log home -- and maybe not so great for those who are farther along in the process.
