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ConstructionDeal helps you get the project done!

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My husband and I have been renovating our home since the day we moved in 6 + years ago. It’s kind of tiring to live with ongoing or in reality at the moment stalled projects! I’ve seriously thought of hiring someone to finish the project we started in our living room dining room!

Then just the other day I saw that a posting for ConstructionDeal.com Site Recaps, so I took a look at the site and I thought that a site like this might be perfect for myself as well as for some of my readers.

If you are a land owner, home owner or perhaps even a business owner and you are thinking of creating a construction or renovation project and you need to find contractors or service professionals to complete your project just visit ConstructionDeal.com.

ConstructionDeal.com offers their service completely free. Just go to the site and take a look around. You can either create your own post detailing your project and the services that you need, or you can browse the directory for a service professional.

Using the directory is actually quite easy. Just find your State and city listing and then you can browse through service listing for residential or commercial services such as new construction, additions/remodels, Interior, and exterior with listings for architects, landscapers, plumbers, contractors, painters and just about any kind of construction renovation service in between.

Posting your own project works in a similar way. You need to locate the type of professional service that you need and then create a post that lists details about your project, your estimated budget, location and contact information.

Easy as that and you can get started on your project!

ConstructionDeal.com only has listings for the United States at this time. Since I’m in Canada I can’t use this great free service at this time, but perhaps in the future they will expand their listings across North America.

Other features of the site include their home improvement blog and financial assistance for projects via ConstructionDeal.com’s partnership with E-Loans.

Check it out!






Trying to make plans for our bathroom reno project

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Once my husband and I complete our living room dining room renovation project it will be time to move on to the next project. We won’t be taking a break in between projects since the living room dinning room reno has taken forever and has been more break than work lately.

I’ve love to work on our upstairs bathroom. It’s so small! At this point I haven’t decided whether we’ll work with the very small space that we have or if we’ll knock down a wall and expand the bathroom. Obviously knocking down a wall and expanding would be what I’d prefer to do as we’d be able to have a very nice upstairs bathroom if we did that.

Still … it’s a much bigger project in every way from expenses to the amount of work that would have to be done. We’d have to move the pipes and drains and so on. I’m not sure we’re up for that right now. Not on our own anyway.

So, if I were to stick with just renovating the small space that we currently have I think that it might be best to take out the bathtub altogether and install a very nice shower. Ideally I think something like this shower would work well in our small space. I think it would take a little less room than a bathtub so we’d be able to put a upright cabinet in the bathroom as well.

Right now we’ve just got a toilet, bathtub with makeshift shower and a very small sink with an under sink storage cabinet.

Speaking of sinks I’d love to get a new sink. One that looks like a beautiful bowl sitting on a table or counter with wall mount taps above the bowl. That would look beautiful.

I’ve actually been looking at the selection of bathroom tubs, showers, taps, furnishings and accessories at www.Taps4Less.com to get some ideas for our bathroom renovation project.

As you can tell I don’t have any definite plans for this upcoming project. It’s going to be a difficult project whether we keep the bathroom as is or expand.

Any ideas?

I’ve decided to use Glass tiles in my kitchen and bathroom reno projects

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I love watching home decor and renovation shows on TLC and the HGTV channels.

I always get great ideas for my own ever ongoing home renovation projects from these shows. If one of the shows is particularly good I’ll literally take notes – writing down product names, or visiting the shows website so that I can find out what products were used and then go on to visit those sites and bookmark them for future use.

I guess I’ve been working on a virtual home renovation scrapbook? Hey the information that I gather is good for my blog posts too of course. If I can’t use an idea maybe you can?

One of the products that caught my eye a while back when I was watching shows like Trading Places and that fun Australian group renovation show The Block is glass tile. I just love the look of it.

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I guess you can’t really tell from this photo how much different glass tiles are from standard ceramic tiles, but they are glossy and just have what I think is a very luxurious look to them.

Our kitchen and bathroom renovations won’t take place until sometime next year, but I wouldn’t be surprised if we end up using glass tiles in both rooms.

I mean, I’ve even gone so far as to look for online stores that sell tiles.

I actually found what I think might be a good site to purchase my tiles from. It’s called AnchorBayTile.com and they specialize in the sale of ceramic tile. I’m really happy I found this site and thought that if any of my readers might also be in the process of renovating your homes that you might also be interested in this site.

There’s quite a selection of tiles ranging from ceramic, glass, to metal and wood! Now, I’m not near ready for my reno project yet so I haven’t even begun to compare prices, but as far as I can see AnchorBayTile.com has great prices for quality products. I mean – you can’t find glass or metal tiles at very many retail or online shops and this store has a huge variety.

I’m definitely keeping this site in mind because I just know I’m be purchasing glass and probably ceramic tiles for my projects.

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