by Alison Moore Smith | Jun 17, 2011 | Design Your Own House, for Home
This post is far too late, as are a number of other posts reporting on the final steps of the build of our home. Our months-late move in was preceded by our daughter's engagement—both of which left us with too much to do and too little time. To top it off, I was...
by Alison Moore Smith | May 11, 2011 | Design Your Own House, for Home
When people visit our new home, they are often surprised that we have concrete floors throughout the house. The main floor has polished concrete and the basement has acid washed concrete (the upstairs has dragon board (another post all together) and the stairs are...
by Alison Moore Smith | Dec 3, 2010 | Design Your Own House, for Home
Belinda's fall 2010 semester project for History of Creativity at BYU was all about the project that's been consuming our family for the past couple of years: construction of our custom home. Now that our home is complete (well, for the most part) and we are moved in...
by Alison Moore Smith | Nov 10, 2010 | Design Your Own House, for Home
One of the final steps in a custom home build is installing appliances. Appliances are a major purchase, one that you'll be living with for a long time, so making the right choices is essential. After selecting our appliances, it was time to get appliance bids and...
by Alison Moore Smith | Oct 27, 2010 | Design Your Own House, for Home
Last June—after doing extensive research on central vacuum cleaners—we selected Al Nielsen to install our central vacuum. I'm so glad we did! Al is friendly, easy-going, polite, and professional. He shows up when he says he will and does what he says he'll do. And...
by Alison Moore Smith | Oct 25, 2010 | Design Your Own House, for Home
If you're looking for gorgeous granite countertops, but looking to keep the granite costs down, I have just the thing for discount granite countertops: granite remnants. On our first house, the granite fabricator required us to purchase entire slabs of granite. When...
