We at Star Tile Carpet One, know that value is more than just a good price. The Baltjes family and our professional flooring team welcome you to our web site. We are a complete flooring centre specializing in the supply, distribution, and installation of ceramic tile, porcelain tile, slate, natural stone, and in-floor heating, the supply and installation of carpet, carpet tiles, laminate flooring, solid hardwood, engineered hardwood, vinyl flooring, rubber flooring, terrazzo, Mexican Saltillo tiles, VCT (vinyl composition tiles), LVT (Luxury Vinyl Tiles), LVP (Luxury Vinyl Planks), travertine, marble, linoleum, cork, granite, Cambria Quartz kitchen countertops, islands, and vanities, remnants, and area rugs. Serving all areas in the Niagara Region, Fonthill, Pelham, St. Catharines, Niagara Falls, Welland, Port Colborne, Fort Erie, Ridgeville, Niagara on the Lake, Virgil, Jordan, Grimsby, Vineland, Ridgeway, Crystal Beach, Pelham, Stevensville, Thorold, Wainflleet, West Lincoln, Beamsville, Dunnville, and Stoney Creek Ontario

We at Star Tile Carpet One, know that value is more than just a good price. The Baltjes family and our professional flooring team welcome you to our web site. We are a complete flooring centre specializing in the supply, distribution, and installation of ceramic tile, porcelain tile, slate, natural stone, and in-floor heating, the supply and installation of carpet, carpet tiles, laminate flooring, solid hardwood, engineered hardwood, vinyl flooring, rubber flooring, terrazzo, Mexican Saltillo tiles, VCT (vinyl composition tiles), LVT (Luxury Vinyl Tiles), LVP (Luxury Vinyl Planks), travertine, marble, linoleum, cork, granite, Cambria Quartz kitchen countertops, islands, and vanities, remnants, and area rugs. Serving all areas in the Niagara Region, Fonthill, Pelham, St. Catharines, Niagara Falls, Welland, Port Colborne, Fort Erie, Ridgeville, Niagara on the Lake, Virgil, Jordan, Grimsby, Vineland, Ridgeway, Crystal Beach, Pelham, Stevensville, Thorold, Wainflleet, West Lincoln, Beamsville, Dunnville, and Stoney Creek Ontario

We at Star Tile Carpet One, know that value is more than just a good price. The Baltjes family and our professional flooring team welcome you to our web site. We are a complete flooring centre specializing in the supply, distribution, and installation of ceramic tile, porcelain tile, slate, natural stone, and in-floor heating, the supply and installation of carpet, carpet tiles, laminate flooring, solid hardwood, engineered hardwood, vinyl flooring, rubber flooring, terrazzo, Mexican Saltillo tiles, VCT (vinyl composition tiles), LVT (Luxury Vinyl Tiles), LVP (Luxury Vinyl Planks), travertine, marble, linoleum, cork, granite, Cambria Quartz kitchen countertops, islands, and vanities, remnants, and area rugs. Serving all areas in the Niagara Region, Fonthill, Pelham, St. Catharines, Niagara Falls, Welland, Port Colborne, Fort Erie, Ridgeville, Niagara on the Lake, Virgil, Jordan, Grimsby, Vineland, Ridgeway, Crystal Beach, Pelham, Stevensville, Thorold, Wainflleet, West Lincoln, Beamsville, Dunnville, and Stoney Creek Ontario

The client’s request was quite common - a typical 2800 sf builder home with 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, living space, and den. However, their desire was for this to be “anything but common.” The result is an innovative update on the production home for the modern era, and serves as a direct counterpoint to the neighborhood and its more conventional suburban housing stock, which focus views to the backyard and seeks to nullify the unique qualities and challenges of topography and the natural environment. The Terraced House cautiously steps down the site’s steep topography, resulting in a more nuanced approach to site development than cutting and filling that is so common in the builder homes of the area. The compact house opens up in very focused views that capture the natural wooded setting, while masking the sounds and views of the directly adjacent roadway. The main living spaces face this major roadway, effectively flipping the typical orientation of a suburban home, and the main entrance pulls visitors up to the second floor and halfway through the site, providing a sense of procession and privacy absent in the typical suburban home. Clad in a custom rain screen that reflects the wood of the surrounding landscape - while providing a glimpse into the interior tones that are used. The stepping “wood boxes” rest on a series of concrete walls that organize the site, retain the earth, and - in conjunction with the wood veneer panels - provide a subtle organic texture to the composition. The interior spaces wrap around an interior knuckle that houses public zones and vertical circulation - allowing more private spaces to exist at the edges of the building. The windows get larger and more frequent as they ascend the building, culminating in the upstairs bedrooms that occupy the site like a tree house - giving views in all directions. The Terraced House imports urban qualities to the suburban neighborhood and seeks to elevate the typical approach to production home construction, while being more in tune with modern family living patterns. Overview: Elm Grove Size: 2,800 sf, 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms Completion Date: September 2014 Services: Architecture, Landscape Architecture Interior Consultants: Amy Carman Design

We at Star Tile Carpet One, know that value is more than just a good price. The Baltjes family and our professional flooring team welcome you to our web site. We are a complete flooring centre specializing in the supply, distribution, and installation of ceramic tile, porcelain tile, slate, natural stone, and in-floor heating, the supply and installation of carpet, carpet tiles, laminate flooring, solid hardwood, engineered hardwood, vinyl flooring, rubber flooring, terrazzo, Mexican Saltillo tiles, VCT (vinyl composition tiles), LVT (Luxury Vinyl Tiles), LVP (Luxury Vinyl Planks), travertine, marble, linoleum, cork, granite, Cambria Quartz kitchen countertops, islands, and vanities, remnants, and area rugs. Serving all areas in the Niagara Region, Fonthill, Pelham, St. Catharines, Niagara Falls, Welland, Port Colborne, Fort Erie, Ridgeville, Niagara on the Lake, Virgil, Jordan, Grimsby, Vineland, Ridgeway, Crystal Beach, Pelham, Stevensville, Thorold, Wainflleet, West Lincoln, Beamsville, Dunnville, and Stoney Creek Ontario

We at Star Tile Carpet One, know that value is more than just a good price. The Baltjes family and our professional flooring team welcome you to our web site. We are a complete flooring centre specializing in the supply, distribution, and installation of ceramic tile, porcelain tile, slate, natural stone, and in-floor heating, the supply and installation of carpet, carpet tiles, laminate flooring, solid hardwood, engineered hardwood, vinyl flooring, rubber flooring, terrazzo, Mexican Saltillo tiles, VCT (vinyl composition tiles), LVT (Luxury Vinyl Tiles), LVP (Luxury Vinyl Planks), travertine, marble, linoleum, cork, granite, Cambria Quartz kitchen countertops, islands, and vanities, remnants, and area rugs. Serving all areas in the Niagara Region, Fonthill, Pelham, St. Catharines, Niagara Falls, Welland, Port Colborne, Fort Erie, Ridgeville, Niagara on the Lake, Virgil, Jordan, Grimsby, Vineland, Ridgeway, Crystal Beach, Pelham, Stevensville, Thorold, Wainflleet, West Lincoln, Beamsville, Dunnville, and Stoney Creek Ontario

We at Star Tile Carpet One, know that value is more than just a good price. The Baltjes family and our professional flooring team welcome you to our web site. We are a complete flooring centre specializing in the supply, distribution, and installation of ceramic tile, porcelain tile, slate, natural stone, and in-floor heating, the supply and installation of carpet, carpet tiles, laminate flooring, solid hardwood, engineered hardwood, vinyl flooring, rubber flooring, terrazzo, Mexican Saltillo tiles, VCT (vinyl composition tiles), LVT (Luxury Vinyl Tiles), LVP (Luxury Vinyl Planks), travertine, marble, linoleum, cork, granite, Cambria Quartz kitchen countertops, islands, and vanities, remnants, and area rugs. Serving all areas in the Niagara Region, Fonthill, Pelham, St. Catharines, Niagara Falls, Welland, Port Colborne, Fort Erie, Ridgeville, Niagara on the Lake, Virgil, Jordan, Grimsby, Vineland, Ridgeway, Crystal Beach, Pelham, Stevensville, Thorold, Wainflleet, West Lincoln, Beamsville, Dunnville, and Stoney Creek Ontario

The Olympic View house is a two story home designed for a couple newly retired from careers in academia on the East Coast of the United States. The resultant building footprint reflects complex site constraints in a manner which ultimately accommodated the Owner’s goals for the house. The house is 2,700 sf and includes all main floor living for day to day functions for aging in place. The house is a contemporary expression of Northwest Regionalism accommodating serious weather conditions and aesthetic considerations for massing, light and presence. The house commands views of Port Orchard Narrows and the Olympic Mountain Range beyond through a membrane of glazing rather than conventional punched window openings. The glazing membrane in-turn allows the solid massing elements of the house to be expressed and meaningful. The strength of the center core of the building is emphasized by a framework of battered bases on each corner. The tops of the bases are held short of the roof plane by two feet allowing the roof to appear to float above the body of the house. The roof then acts as more of a canopy allowing light to penetrate the building at all times during the day and be a lantern for the streetscape at night. Desisgned by BC&J Architecture. photos: Martin Bydalek Photography

Dual sliding barn doors with black pipe handles (the same that was used in the bar!) form the entrance to the home gym. The spacious and bright room has a rubber floor. 40 tires were upcycled to create this sustainable and durable flooring. A wall of mirrors amplifies the natural light from the windows and door to the outside. Welcome to this sports lover’s paradise in West Chester, PA! We started with the completely blank palette of an unfinished basement and created space for everyone in the family by adding a main television watching space, a play area, a bar area, a full bathroom and an exercise room. The floor is COREtek engineered hardwood, which is waterproof and durable, and great for basements and floors that might take a beating. Combining wood, steel, tin and brick, this modern farmhouse looking basement is chic and ready to host family and friends to watch sporting events! Rudloff Custom Builders has won Best of Houzz for Customer Service in 2014, 2015 2016, 2017 and 2019. We also were voted Best of Design in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 which only 2% of professionals receive. Rudloff Custom Builders has been featured on Houzz in their Kitchen of the Week, What to Know About Using Reclaimed Wood in the Kitchen as well as included in their Bathroom WorkBook article. We are a full service, certified remodeling company that covers all of the Philadelphia suburban area. This business, like most others, developed from a friendship of young entrepreneurs who wanted to make a difference in their clients’ lives, one household at a time. This relationship between partners is much more than a friendship. Edward and Stephen Rudloff are brothers who have renovated and built custom homes together paying close attention to detail. They are carpenters by trade and understand concept and execution. Rudloff Custom Builders will provide services for you with the highest level of professionalism, quality, detail, punctuality and craftsmanship, every step of the way along our journey together. Specializing in residential construction allows us to connect with our clients early in the design phase to ensure that every detail is captured as you imagined. One stop shopping is essentially what you will receive with Rudloff Custom Builders from design of your project to the construction of your dreams, executed by on-site project managers and skilled craftsmen. Our concept: envision our client’s ideas and make them a reality. Our mission: CREATING LIFETIME RELATIONSHIPS BUILT ON TRUST AND INTEGRITY. Photo Credit: Linda McManus Images

LOFT | Luxury Loft Transformation | FOUR POINT DESIGN BUILD INC This ultra feminine luxury loft was designed for an up-and-coming fashion/travel writer. With 30' soaring ceiling heights, five levels, winding paths of travel and tight stairways, no storage at all, very little usable wall space, a tight timeline, and a very modest budget, we had our work cut out for us. Thrilled to report, the client loves it, and we completed the project on time and on budget. Photography by Riley Jamison

This modern green home offers both a vacation destination on Cape Cod near local family members and an opportunity for rental income. FAMILY ROOTS. A West Coast couple living in the San Francisco Bay Area sought a permanent East Coast vacation home near family members living on Cape Cod. As academic professionals focused on sustainability, they sought a green, energy efficient home that was well-aligned with their values. With no green homes available for sale on Cape Cod, they decided to purchase land near their family and build their own. SLOPED SITE. Comprised of a 3/4 acre lot nestled in the pines, the steeply sloping terrain called for a plan that embraced and took advantage of the slope. Of equal priority was optimizing solar exposure, preserving privacy from abutters, and creating outdoor living space. The design accomplished these goals with a simple, rectilinear form, offering living space on the both entry and lower/basement levels. The stepped foundation allows for a walk-out basement level with light-filled living space on the down-hill side of the home. The traditional basement on the eastern, up-hill side houses mechanical equipment and a home gym. The house welcomes natural light throughout, captures views of the forest, and delivers entertainment space that connects indoor living space to outdoor deck and dining patio. MODERN VISION. The clean building form and uncomplicated finishes pay homage to the modern architectural legacy on the outer Cape. Durable and economical fiber cement panels, fixed with aluminum channels, clad the primary form. Cedar clapboards provide a visual accent at the south-facing living room, which extends a single roof plane to cover the entry porch. SMART USE OF SPACE. On the entry level, the “L”-shaped living, dining, and kitchen space connects to the exterior living, dining, and grilling spaces to effectively double the home’s summertime entertainment area. Placed at the western end of the entry level (where it can retain privacy but still claim expansive downhill views) is the master suite with a built-in study. The lower level has two guest bedrooms, a second full bathroom, and laundry. The flexibility of the space—crucial in a house with a modest footprint—emerges in one of the guest bedrooms, which doubles as home office by opening the barn-style double doors to connect it to the bright, airy open stair leading up to the entry level. Thoughtful design, generous ceiling heights and large windows transform the modest 1,100 sf* footprint into a well-lit, spacious home. *(total finished space is 1800 sf) RENTAL INCOME. The property works for its owners by netting rental income when the owners are home in San Francisco. The house especially caters to vacationers bound for nearby Mayo Beach and includes an outdoor shower adjacent to the lower level entry door. In contrast to the bare bones cottages that are typically available on the Cape, this home offers prospective tenants a modern aesthetic, paired with luxurious and green features. Durable finishes inside and out will ensure longevity with the heavier use that comes with a rental property. COMFORT YEAR-ROUND. The home is super-insulated and air-tight, with mechanical ventilation to provide continuous fresh air from the outside. High performance triple-paned windows complement the building enclosure and maximize passive solar gain while ensuring a warm, draft-free winter, even when sitting close to the glass. A properly sized air source heat pump offers efficient heating & cooling, and includes a carefully designed the duct distribution system to provide even comfort throughout the house. The super-insulated envelope allows us to significantly reduce the equipment capacity, duct size, and airflow quantities, while maintaining unparalleled thermal comfort. ENERGY EFFICIENT. The building’s shell and mechanical systems play instrumental roles in the home’s exceptional performance. The building enclosure reduces the most significant energy glutton: heating. Continuous super-insulation, thorough air sealing, triple-pane windows, and passive solar gain work together to yield a miniscule heating load. All active energy consumers are extremely efficient: an air source heat pump for heating and cooling, a heat pump hot water heater, LED lighting, energy recovery ventilation (ERV), and high efficiency appliances. The result is a home that uses 70% less energy than a similar new home built to code requirements. OVERALL. The home embodies the owners’ goals and values while comprehensively enabling thermal comfort, energy efficiency, a vacation respite, and supplementary income. PROJECT TEAM ZeroEnergy Design - Architect & Mechanical Designer A.F. Hultin & Co. - Contractor Pamet Valley Landscape Design - Landscape & Masonry Lisa Finch - Original Artwork European Architectural Supply - Windows Eric Roth Photography - Photography

The Olympic View house is a two story home designed for a couple newly retired from careers in academia on the East Coast of the United States. The resultant building footprint reflects complex site constraints in a manner which ultimately accommodated the Owner’s goals for the house. The house is 2,700 sf and includes all main floor living for day to day functions for aging in place. The house is a contemporary expression of Northwest Regionalism accommodating serious weather conditions and aesthetic considerations for massing, light and presence. The house commands views of Port Orchard Narrows and the Olympic Mountain Range beyond through a membrane of glazing rather than conventional punched window openings. The glazing membrane in-turn allows the solid massing elements of the house to be expressed and meaningful. The strength of the center core of the building is emphasized by a framework of battered bases on each corner. The tops of the bases are held short of the roof plane by two feet allowing the roof to appear to float above the body of the house. The roof then acts as more of a canopy allowing light to penetrate the building at all times during the day and be a lantern for the streetscape at night. Desisgned by BC&J Architecture. photos: Martin Bydalek Photography

Nestled into a tree-covered hilltop in Fairfax CA this simple timber-framed house exploits what many have considered to be a very restrictive and constrained site too small to develop. The perimeter of the house follows exactly the site and its set back lines thus dictating the overall size and volume. The house was designed for a young couple as a starter home in this desirable area where they would normally be priced out. The strict budget influenced the design of standard off-the-shelf components and an easy and quick construction sequence minimalizing the build time. The house straddle’s a small brook in a ravine at the apex of a hairpin bend on an unincorporated road. Supported on eight concrete peers elevating the house to road level, the layout of the house is based on a simple twelve-foot grid, with an adjoining six-foot tapering sliver along the north-facing long edge, giving the overall footprint the shape of a blunt wedge. Accessed over a triangular bridge dictated by site lines, the entrance is via a covered porte cochere with a balcony above. The entranceway can be closed for security by means of a large sliding door of matching slatted wood. The entrance proper is via a stock sliding glass patio door to the main living space. The choice of sliding window is repeated throughout the building. In its current flexible configuration, the living space is a double-height experience, beyond which on the left centrally located is a spiral staircase leading to the bedroom and bathroom above. Both these rooms have built-in storage. Both bedrooms boast a double-height slopping ceiling; clerestory windows that give the building its distinctive character, and a balcony. On the ground floor beyond the spiral staircase is built-in and concealed fully equipped kitchen and open plan dining area, beyond which, externally and underneath one of the bedroom balconies is an outdoor bbq kitchen.

Corners are eroded on all of the structures to allow the interior space to marry with the exterior views and site. Decks wrap these corners as well and provide an intermediate transition zone between structure and landscape. Inspired by local fishing shacks and wharf buildings dotting the coast of Maine, this retreat interweaves large glazed openings with simple taut-skinned New England shingled cottages. This skin is incised to open views to the sea beyond and relies on light steel framing and thin braces to preserve the simple forms eroded toward sweeping views.Eric Reinholdt - Project Architect/Lead Designer with Elliott + Elliott Architecture Photo: Eric Reinholdt

This remarkable home on a two-acre lake bluff provides an inspiring retreat with multiple indoor and outdoor casual living spaces. A large extended family is always welcome to the many varied gathering spots on the grounds, all with glorious lake views. A landscape plan developed in collaboration with Swan Architecture included new additions, a detached garage, and site amenities that keep Lake Minnetonka visible from almost every angle. The design features a deck that overlooks the lake with an outdoor kitchen, an intermediate level patio with rustic fi re pit, and a lower level pool and pool terrace, all with ample entertainment space. Should the wind pick up on the lakeside, a generous front courtyard is a calm retreat for listening to a crackling fi re in the cut stone fi replace and hearing water murmur from custom black granite fountain. A private landing at the lake shore with dockside fi re pit and tables rewards boaters returning to port from lake adventures. LANDSCAPE DESIGN/BUILD: Keenan & Sveiven, Inc. ARCHITECT: Swan Architecture BUILDER: Streeter Custom Homes

photo: Mark Pinkerton, VI360
Inspiration for a contemporary home design remodel in San Francisco

White oak herringbone at 45 degrees with picture-frame border — 24th-floor Buckhead high-rise, approximately 1,500 square feet. Open-plan non-rectangular layout across kitchen, dining, and living areas. 5-inch wide plank white oak, nail-down, site-finished with LOBA 2K Duo. Border integrated and sanded flush as one continuous surface. Installer holds formal NWFA parquetry training. Full project documented at classyflooringatlanta.com.

The Olympic View house is a two story home designed for a couple newly retired from careers in academia on the East Coast of the United States. The resultant building footprint reflects complex site constraints in a manner which ultimately accommodated the Owner’s goals for the house. The house is 2,700 sf and includes all main floor living for day to day functions for aging in place. The house is a contemporary expression of Northwest Regionalism accommodating serious weather conditions and aesthetic considerations for massing, light and presence. The house commands views of Port Orchard Narrows and the Olympic Mountain Range beyond through a membrane of glazing rather than conventional punched window openings. The glazing membrane in-turn allows the solid massing elements of the house to be expressed and meaningful. The strength of the center core of the building is emphasized by a framework of battered bases on each corner. The tops of the bases are held short of the roof plane by two feet allowing the roof to appear to float above the body of the house. The roof then acts as more of a canopy allowing light to penetrate the building at all times during the day and be a lantern for the streetscape at night. Desisgned by BC&J Architecture. photos: Martin Bydalek Photography

Newlyweds had just moved into their new home and immediately wanted to update their kitchen which is located in the center of the household, lacking any natural light source of its own. To make matters worse, the cabinets in place were dark red with black countertops. Not the picture of brightness they were looking for. To increase the amount of light reflected throughout the kitchen, we incorporated some of the following updates: 1. Replaced the solo ceiling light with 4 recessed cans 2. Updated the florescent undercabinet lights with new LED strips 3. Installed custom white cabinets topped with Silestone’s new Artic Ocean white countertops 4. Updated the dark glass pendants over the bar with larger, clear glass pendants that spoke more to the history of the home 5. Painted the walls a soft gray to compliment the palette The original kitchen layout was updated to eliminate the existing soffits and open the visual feel of the space. A large white farm sink now centers the natural wood bar area, inviting guests to sit and gather for ballgames and celebrations. Glass tile and USB ports at charging sites complete the space for the family to grow over the years. Photo by Stockwell Media