Looking for a great, classic choice for your kitchen backsplash? Subway tile could be what you’ve been looking for. It’s easy to clean, durable, inexpensive and beautiful. That adds up to a great value in the world of home building materials.
English Cottage Style
We talk a lot about English cottage style homes here. What is an English cottage home? It's one that has a steeply pitched roof and cross-gables, a large chimney, small-paned casement windows, and arched (or half-round) doorways with ornate hardware and exterior lighting. Here you'll find lots of photos and examples of English cottage style exteriors & interiors featuring coffered ceilings, hardwood floors (often painted), and other English cottage style home accents.
Customize Your New Driveway By Incorporating Embedded River Pebbles
Don’t just pour a dull concrete driveway. Jazz it up with embedded washed river pebbles! You’ll be astounded with the results!
Handmade Bricks Offer Instant Character As Landscape Edging
Here is an example of brick edging laid in a vertical fashion (sailor curb) with alternating colors of brick along pathways and a driveway. A beautiful finished product!
Natural Cork Flooring: A Growing Trend In Today’s Green Home Building Industry
Natural cork floor tiles are fast becoming the hottest trend in flooring options, especially with green homebuilders and their customers. Here is an example of one that has been installed.
English Tudor-Style Cottage Photos & Ideas
This is the final series of my photo posts of the English tudor-style cottage located in Marietta, GA. The home has an abundance of over-the-top quality features rarely seen in homebuilding today.
This Happy Little Dachshund Boot Scraper Makes Me Smile
Dachshund boot scrapers will bring a smile to your face every time.
Considering Coffered Ceilings In Your Home? Here’s A Coffered Ceiling Photo Gallery Filled With Great Ideas!
Thinking about having coffered ceilings built in your new home? Here are quite a few examples of different styles and/or adaptations to coffered ceiling styles.
Pictures of an English Cottage Featuring Windows and Doors
Pictures of a thoroughly detailed English cottage house made in the U.S.A. Most of these photos were taken of some of the window and door features of the home.
Cast Limestone Mantels and Terra Cotta Roof Tiles = Quality
Here are some photos of an Isokern fireplace/chimney systems, mortise and tenon joinery, a reclaimed antique terra cotta roof installation, an exposed oak beam ceiling and an authentic stone wall being built. Great ideas!
Top 10 English Cottage Photos
Here are some of my best photos of a full-blown authentic English cottage that was built adjacent to Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park in Marietta, Georgia. There’s way too much to describe in this little excerpt.
