With spring right around the corner, now is the time to begin planning that long-overdue renovation to your backyard. Patio? Covered porch? Summer kitchen? Deck? Pool? Dreambuilder can handle all of it for you in one unified project from design to completion. We can even help you divide the project into phases that you can…
Source: Associated Press/AP Online Publication date: February 17, 2011 NEW YORK – Fixed mortgage rates inched down this week, following a dip in Treasury yields.Freddie Mac says the average rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage slipped to 5 percent from 5.05 percent last week. It hit a 40-year low of 4.17 percent in November. The…
by Bill Lahay From its inception as Apartment Ideas magazine in 1969 to the December 2009 issue that marked the end of its run, Metropolitan Home underwent more than a few transformations. Its revenues waxed and waned, its publisher changed, and its audience matured and grew more affluent. Through it all, the magazine metamorphosed from…
Dreambuilder Custom Homes is pleased to announce the completion of Dreambuilder Eight: a kitchen transformation for the Schneider family in Jacksonville, FL. Kirsten Schneider is a professional chef and owner of Dinners Direct, a home-delivery meal preparation service. Her current kitchen, original to the 25-year-old home, fell woefully short of her needs, both in function…
By Bruce D. Snider, Custom Home Online Northwest Peach Farm’s master bathroom also occupies a generous volume, and it, too, employs a simple motif to delineate functional areas without dividing the space into separate chambers. A free-standing makeup counter helps define the bathing area, its steel-framed mirror echoing the windows used throughout the house. A…
