About Moldings

Over the decades, I have found the one major thing that distinguishes exceptional houses from the plain and ordinary: the moldings. When I first started remodeling and building in the early 1970’s, door and window casings were either clamshell (ranch) or colonial, in either 2 1/2″ or 3 1/2″ widths. Occasionally, a few outstanding architects…

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Custom Cabinets vs. Manufactured Cabinets

custom cabinets

We hear this all the time: “Sure, I’d love to get custom cabinets (or whatever), but won’t they be much more expensive than mass-produced ones?” The answer is, not necessarily.

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