LED lights are a safe and cost effective way to brighten up your kitchen island, cabinets, or pendants. Illuminating cabinet interiors and the spaces above and below is a great way to perfectly balance opening up the room, task lighting for food prep and cooking, and adding a splash of color. Illuminating the area under cabinets really transforms a room. LED light bars and strips provide ample task lighting for everyday activities and increase the overall illumination in a room. Never has it been easier to achieve this look than now with the various LED light strip kits offered.

Detail. To assist in keeping the project at the client's budget for their dining room windows, the greater portion of the space here features leaded rectangles of glass, which is an effective cost-efficient means of limiting the complexity of a large space where stained glass is to be installed. This enabled the center panel to become the focal point, with a great deal of detailing and small pieces. The urn is composed of clear textures of leaded and beveled glass. Photo by Mark Levy Studio

If your family is like most American families, the kitchen is the heart of your home. It is where you gather for meals, to do homework, meet with friends, and, of course, sneak a midnight snack! Knowing that the kitchen is the center of your home, is the overall style what you want when entertaining? If the answer is no, but you don’t have the funds to do a complete renovation, you may be considering painting the kitchen cabinets. Here are three of the top benefits of making this choice. A Face-Lift – Kitchen cabinets are most likely one of the first things people notice when they enter a kitchen, as they take up a majority of the wall space. So if they are drab, dated, worn, or darker than you prefer, you may want to consider brightening up your kitchen with a professional painting of not only the wall surfaces but also the kitchen cabinets. If your cabinets are in fairly good condition, there really is no need to replace, but rather have the experts bring back the shine and new look to your kitchen through paint. Economical – Having a team of professionals remove, clean, sand, and paint your cabinet doors and the surrounding woodwork can be much more cost effective than a complete replacement of the cabinets. The average cost of revitalizing cabinets by painting is a fraction of the cost of both the labor and materials needed to replace the existing cabinets. Time and Convenience – Not only is the cost a factor when deciding whether to replace or rejuvenate your cabinets, but time and convenience should be considered as well. For most contractors, gutting and replacing cabinets will take approximately 3-6 weeks and will mean losing your kitchen during that time. In a fraction of the time, usually less than a week, your kitchen can look like new with a paint color that you have chosen.

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Traditional family room renovation, taken back to the cinder-block and rebuilt with energy-efficient walls and mold-resistant drywall then finished with white painted trim and an earthy wall color. 6 recessed LED can lights with dimmer switches really bring this room to light and a nice knock-down texture on the ceiling finishes the room envelope nicely. Replacement vinyl slider windows allow this room to breath the fresh air while maintaining the look and feel of the room. A cost-effective laminate flooring and floating-tile hearth completes the room nicely. The fireplace mantel shelf painted white adds just the touch of sophistication this room needed to bring it into the 21st century.

Nice and clean beds with good separation via the concrete edger. Accent boulders and landscape lighting to enhance the overall project. We built a cedar privacy screen to create some privacy for the spa and also built the large paver patio and retaining walls to make the yard as functional as possible. A gas fire pit was added for fun family gatherings.

James Hardie Lap Siding - 8 1/4" - Cedar Mill Pearl Gray on the projected sides of this home. Royal D4.5 Vinyl siding on the back in Estate Gray is cost effective and a great way to finish your exterior! Royal aluminum 4- panel soffit & fascia in black finishes this home off beautifully. Home built by Grizzly Homes

Close-up of the primary shower showcasing sleek white tiles, matte black fixtures, and a glimpse of the oversized niche. The floor tiles were chosen for their excellent grip as well as for their cost-effectiveness, ensuring practicality without compromising on style

Designed to meet the demand for more affordable urban housing, the Ecotown offers a versatile open plan with 2-3 bedroom, and 2.5-3 baths. The transitional style of this home showcases expansive modern windows with a double height space, which offers sweeping views. Outdoors decks at the rear provide a lovely indoor outdoor connection and a traditional, cost effective and energy efficient roof layout has been selected. Compact yet spacious, this 1256-1570 sf home is filled with natural light and warm natural materials. Perfect for infill development on narrow lots, this home can be built with an integral or attached garage and/or an additional dwelling unit on the first floor.

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Example of a large transitional l-shaped medium tone wood floor and brown floor open concept kitchen design in Seattle with an undermount sink, shaker cabinets, white cabinets, wood countertops, gray backsplash, ceramic backsplash, stainless steel appliances and an island

Our bathroom renovation services range from makeovers to full reconstructions. The bathroom is a great place to green your home by upgrading to new eco-conscious systems. It’s also very cost effective to replace the surfaces and hardware to update or upgrade your bathroom. Taken by: Rick Rodney

The downstairs kitchen and a dining area that was dominated by a network of darkly-stained, hand-chipped beams and brick-red floor tiles. To bring these disparate rooms together, Sea Ranch Architect David Moultona AIA's design included new windows to replace several outdated stained glass windows and a new picture window to the west. Ikea kitchen cabinets provided a cost-effective solution to achieving a sleek and efficient kitchen layout topped by Organic White Ceasarstone countertops, stainless steel backsplash and chef's style open shelves. A new kitchen peninsula topped with Cherry Butcher Block provides a note of rustic authenticity by incorporating the owner's antique ice chest as an end cabinet. searanchimages.com

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Our bathroom renovation services range from makeovers to full reconstructions. The bathroom is a great place to green your home by upgrading to new eco-conscious systems. It’s also very cost effective to replace the surfaces and hardware to update or upgrade your bathroom. Taken by: Rick Rodney

Nice and clean beds with good separation via the concrete edger. Accent boulders and landscape lighting to enhance the overall project. We built a cedar privacy screen to create some privacy for the spa and also built the large paver patio and retaining walls to make the yard as functional as possible. A gas fire pit was added for fun family gatherings.

This couple had lived in their home over 20-years, with their handicapped adult daughter. 5 years-ago they added onto the back of their home to accommodate appropriate housing needs for her, such as a wheel-chair lift. However, their home needed wheelchair-accessibility, beginning with transition from daughter’s room on lower level, to main kitchen level, via existing lift. The project was budget-driven so it was critical to utilize practical cost-effective materials, while transforming home’s overall dated-look. My House Design/Build Team Ltd. successfully opened-up the space, increased use-ability for whole family, and provided the ‘wow-factor’. The renewed kitchen is much more efficient providing a practical solution for family.

This renovation was part of a streamlined program that is based upon direct replacement. It was modified and there was not a full gut for the remodel. The existing floor was a recent upgrade and was used in the design of the room when selecting cabinetry and counters. The color scheme was bold enough with the red quartz counters and use of a soft white paint for the walls helps balance the appliances that are also white and were also a recent upgrade before the renovation, making for a cost effective project.