In December, Pat Rose and her crew were awarded the Remodeling in Excellence award for kitchen remodeling projects under $30,000 for 2010.  The award was presented by the Whatcom County Builders Association at their annual

I caught a very nice blog from LA all about kitchen remodeling.  The Kitchen Designer.  The article has some scary photos of a kitchen completely stripped to the wall studs, with construction lights hanging from

We are getting more calls these days to make over bathrooms for elderly persons who may have had a stroke and can’t get around the same as before; or for a person struggling with a long

We all have something about our living spaces that we would like to either replace entirely or improve.  Such as that wall between the kitchen and the dining area; if you opened that up, it

With her 28 years of experience, Pat Rose was “volunteered” to help manage the construction of a Habitat for Humanity house in our local area.  Since several of us here at RCI have wanted to

This time of year flowers are getting pretty scarce, so I guess this little bee thought she’d hit the jackpot with the giant flower on one of our Rose Construction, Inc. vans.   Our vans have

   DyLon McClary of Rose Construction, Inc. recently became one of the select group of professionals nationwide to earn the Certified Aging-in-Place Specialist (CAPS) designation, identifying him as one of the building industry’s top professionals

So, as I have been wont to say, we do not all have the option to just snap our fingers and get the kitchen of our dreams.  Some of us have to make our dreams

 When planning your home remodel, whether a one – room effort or a major overhaul, did you remember the importance of getting a guarantee on the workmanship and materials? It’s fun to pick out plumbing

Well, the TORH’s is over!  We had 85 visitors on Sunday!  Not sure of the count for Saturday, as I manned the front gate for our home project on Sunday.  It was great to see

On October 2 & 3 we will be hosting one of the homes featured in the Tour of Remodeled Homes for the Bellingham area.  This annual event is presented by the Master Remodelers Council of

I just read an article about the number of us “baby boomers” that are entering retirement age now and for the near future.  For the most part we are called an “active generation”.  Meaning we

Hey all; I love plumbing trivia, and I’m not sure why!  It may be just that a lot of plumbing is sort of gross, like plugged toilet drains, old pipes buried in the ground and

Lets face it, lots of homes have basements, and a lot of them are unfinished or semi-finished spaces that do not get used a lot due to that!  Basements can be dark due to either

This is a topic I haven’t heard a lot about.  We have done several garage remodels, some more on the inside, others more outside work.  Kathy’s remodeling blog covers garages as well as the more

Coming up with remodeling concepts for your bath or kitchen can be very difficult.  Well, unless you are one of the lucky ones who has seen many kitchens and baths and have an abundance of

I love that word, eclectic; for our purposes it means to select parts and pieces of style and design from various eras, and put it all together in such a way that e it all

We recieved our EPA logo with our companies certification number embedded in it today. Just thought we would show it to you! EPA Lead Safe Certified Firm For information on current rules regarding renovation in

Well here we are, back at kitchens!  I found a neat website with lots of actual remodeled kitchen photos, called “Rate my Kitchen”.    http://http://www.roomzaar.com/rate-my-space/Kitchens/gallery.esi I find that when looking for ideas to makeover a kitchen or

A humerous article I found recently at http://homrerenovations.about.com listed the error of hanging a towel rack using construction glue, instead of drywall mounts.  I can imagine when someone tried to pull a wet towel over

I found a nice blog from a company located in California that has some excellent explanations on why so many of us “feel a need” to change (i.e.: remodel) our bathrooms or kitchens!  I’ve included

So, since I am planing on tearing out my own deck and replacing it, I find decks, decking materials and deck design are on my mind a lot lately.  I know what I want –

Renovation/ remodel – aren’t they the same thing?  I don’t like to get hung up in semantics or jargon peculiar to a trade.  I get in trouble for that, since I then forget what things

What about countertops; there is such a variety of materials one can use today; Ceramic Tile Concrete Engineered Stone Glass Glass-Fiber Reinforced Concrete (GFRC) Granite, Marble, and Travertine Limestone, Soapstone, Slate, and Lava Stone Metal

I decided to check out some unusual bathroom fixtures, after seeing one that at first glance I thought was a joke.  My apologies to the folks at Caroma, this is a real unit.  As you