We are busy at work finishing The Crossing condominium units. The flooring is being installed by Bierman’s Flooring. This unit has nice laminate wood flooring in the kitchen and into the living room. This flooring goes well with the cherry cabinets. After the flooring work is completed we install wood baseboards at the perimeter.
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Our East side new home is progressing nicely. Our carpenters have been busy with the stairway to the second floor. The stair is constructed of red oak as is all the trim in the home. The stairs has open railings with balusters and newel posts. This type of stairway is a challenge for carpenters [...]
Last week we just about finished all the cabinet installations in the three condominiums we are finishing at The Crossing in Northfield. All the cabinets are cherry, but each of the three units is slightly different. One of the units has plastic laminate countertops for the work areas in the kitchen and granite on [...]
Yesterday our carpenters started setting cabinets in the first condominium we are completing at The Crossing in Northfield. Each of the units is slightly different and will have different interior finishes. For this unit we are using cherry cabinets with framed panel doors. We are installing a good sized crown molding at the top [...]
With the primer and first finish coats of paint applied, we are starting interior trim work at our East side new home project. The trim in this home is red oak. In keeping with the Craftsman style of the home, we have tried to keep the trim simple. We are using flat casings around [...]
We have just completed drywall finishing at the new home we are building on Northfield’s East side. With the very cold weather it was tough to keep enough air and heat circulating in the home, but we managed to do it. We are not operating the permanent furnace so the air distribution is not [...]
We have used a couple of new products on the kitchen remodeling project we are working on. The first one is a floor tile product called SnapStone. The owner’s purchased the tile and grout and we installed it for them. The 12” square tiles have a plastic backing with tabs protruding on all edges. [...]
The owner of the home we are building in rural Northfield has done the stone work around the fireplace himself. He first set a number of stones that he collected from around the United States. He then infilled around the stones with cultured stones. It creates a very nice fireplace. For the mantle he used [...]
The interior trim work is moving along well on the rural Northfield home that we are constructing. This is a decent size home, with about 3,500 finished square feet so the drywall and painting work has taken a bit of time to complete. The first couple of coats of finish paint are in place [...]
Our subcontractor partners finished up installing the mechanical and electrical systems in the rural Northfield home we are constructing. After the county completed their framing inspection and the state completed their electrical inspection we have now moved on to insulating the home.
This house is being insulated with the blow-in-blanket system of fiberglass insulation….also called [...]
