Fazzolari Custom Homes & Renovations

The truly excellent outdoor kitchen is not only functional, but aesthetically pleasing, a place you and your guests will want to spend some time.

A cheap slab of granite can make a nice upgrade to help sell a home in certain circumstances, but are you sure it’s really as cheap as you think?

Your First Hour Rating (FHR) is a necessity when determining the appropriate size of hot water heater you need for your home. By calculating how many gallons of water you use during the peak hour of consumption in your home, you will know the largest size of heater you need.

Unlike fine wines and cheese and women, hot water heaters do not improve with age. Over time, the heaters can corrode, leak, fill with gunk, and just plain break down. Most conventional hot water heaters last between 10 and 15 years.

This is a list of items you can do around the house in April to keep up on your chores. You don’t want to read it but you should!

If you didn’t install a backflow prevention device or, if you do have an incident, you are risking contaminating your drinking water supply.

Our March installment on tasks you can do to keep your household running smoothly.

Soapstone can be an elegant and unique (at least here in the Pacific Northwest) surface to choose for your kitchen countertops, but you’ll either love it or hate it.

Since high-end finishes often are synonymous with timeless design, I think the extra work involved in making a wall smooth gives a home, even a new one, a more vintage look.

Here is your reminder of things you can do, right now, in February, to keep up on the basics of maintaining your major household systems.