by Alison Moore Smith | Aug 11, 2011 | for Home
Designing your own home is an incredible adventure. It's exhilarating, stressful, time-consuming, exciting, and exhausting…all at once. When we began the process (for the second time), there were many things on our “must have” list: Bedroom for each person...
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 | Nov 4, 2010 | for Fun, for Home
Moving twice in the past two months—not to mention the past year building a custom home—has left me much in need of R&R. I'd take a long, hot bubble bath in my jacuzzi tub…except that someone on the building crew misplaced the tub's plug. I'm thinking a long vacation...
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...
