If you’re like me, your pet is part of the family. So why not give your pet their own comfortable living space in your home? I’ve helped customers incorporate simple, inexpensive design ideas as part of their remodeling efforts to create pet-friendly spaces and functional updates. These updates not only pamper pets — they make…
Whether you’re simply refreshing or completely redesigning your bathroom, there is a right and a wrong way to install the tile. Managing tile installation is a lot like following GPS when you’re on a road trip: If you go rogue, you can end up in place you don’t really want to be. Our team at…
Meet the Designer: Leslie Alton In this special blog series, you’ll meet Dover Home Remodelers’ talented designers: Enjoy a glimpse at their work, inspirations and beautiful home remodeling project highlights. Blend a trained artist, an interior design junkie and a genuine people-person, and you get the ultimate resource for creating uniquely fabulous living spaces in…
How to Choose Flooring that Can Survive Summer Entertaining and Beyond Summer is finally here. It’s time for gathering, hosting and enjoying the season — which means more foot traffic in your home. To make your summer days carefree with less time spent on home maintenance, it’s important to think about your flooring. If replacing your home’s flooring is on your to-do list, consider the performance features of…
For many homeowners, design choices can be overwhelming. Selecting surfaces, fixtures, and colors can seem like a daunting task. But it doesn’t have to be. To make design choices that won’t look outdated five or ten years from now, approach the design selection process by taking a look around you. Which colors and textures in your home do you love? Which pieces (such as furniture and artwork)…
Whether you’re replacing your backsplash as part of a complete kitchen remodel or simply refreshing your above-the-counter space, a new backsplash is a great investment. This update can transform the entire look of your kitchen—and it’s functional, too. The backsplash protects the wall behind the sink and underneath cabinets against water damage from splashing and spills. Beyond its practicality, the kitchen backsplash is prime real estate for expressing…
Meet the Designer: Shelby Wilkins In this special blog series, we would like to introduce you to Dover Home Remodelers’ talented designers. Enjoy a glimpse at their work, inspirations and beautiful before-and-after remodeling project highlights. If you’re looking for well-balanced interior design perspective, meet Shelby Wilkins. Shelby earned degrees in interior design, business and marketing.…
We’ve all been there—to those “perfect” homes that uniquely and beautifully reflect the owners with a well-curated, seemingly effortless sense of style. How do they do it? If you Google how to identify my home design personality, you’ll find lots of quizzes you can take to help you classify your “look” or style as a…
In our loftiest home-improvement dreams, we all have unlimited project budgets. But for most of us, that’s just not reality. As a designer, I work with homeowners every day to help them balance their wants and needs while keeping the budget in check. Today I want to share my experience and help you design the…
Update your lower level. Ideas for basement flooring, walls and more. Baby, it’s cold outside. This is the time of year when many of us in Northeast Ohio are looking to update our living spaces as we’ll be spending a lot of time indoors for the next few months. I’m getting lots of traffic in…
