Fazzolari Custom Homes & Renovations

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.

Old is new again for 2010 as the National Kitchen & Bath Association reports that traditional styles will dominate kitchen and bath design this year.

In Part 3 of our series of short articles about what we think qualifies as high-end finishing for homes, we look to the floor for a detail that can really add a quality look to your interior. Large Baseboard and Simple Shoe Moldings One of the differences between a custom home and a home that [...]

When it comes to installing moldings and trim the better the craftsmanship, the better the look and the better the wear and tear.

This is the first article in a series about high-end details in a custom home. Our first nit-pick is to make sure the trim on windows and doors line up with one another. It takes a little planning, but it is one of my pet peeves if it is not done.

These reminders can keep your household and major systems running smoothly.

Here in the Pacific Northwest we recently had a stretch of nearly a week of sub-freezing temperatures. It was a little early in the year for this, so I had not yet put the styrofoam insulation on the outside water spigots of my Vancouver, Wa., home. Not surprisingly the water still trapped in them froze. [...]