Friday, February 29, 2008

Todays Top Remodeling Trends

Planning on renovating your home? Here are some of todays biggest trends to help guide you in making those remodeling and home addition plans:

Luxurious and Opulent Bathrooms

Spas are known to do wonders for ones mind, body and soul, so its not really surprising that more and more people are trying to bring the spa experience into their homes. So in the next few years, expect to see bigger bathrooms equipped with multiple or enlarged showerheads, heated tile floors, large tubs and, for the high-end bathrooms, whirlpools and waterfalls.

Warm Colors

Warmth and comfort are big days, so if youre thinking about repainting your bedroom or living room walls, consider painting them in natural and earth colors. Those in red, green and yellow tones are particularly popular and trendy these days.

Bigger and Better Laundry Rooms

The trend in laundry rooms is to make it larger, more organized and more colorfulin short, make it better than the damp, cramp and depressing laundry room that can be found in most homes today.

Customized Features

As with cars, jewelry, clothes and most of things in life, customization is big when it comes to home renovation today. Whether its through personalized furniture or fixtures, more and more people are putting their personal stamps on their homes.

Bigger Kitchens

over the years, the kitchen has increasingly become the heart and soul of a home. More than just a place to eat, the kitchen is also where the houses occupants (and if a teenager lives there, their constant stream of friends) gather to talk, do some work and just hang out.

With the increasing importance and role of the kitchen, todays trends dictate that the ideal kitchen should be larger and more spacious. In contrast to the industrial kitchens of the past years, the kitchens new look should be warm and cozy. So instead of the stainless steel tops and furniture, opt instead for counters in earth tones and appliances in rich, warm colors.

wood Floors

The clean elegance of wood floors are enthralling homeowners everywhere and making them among todays biggest home trends. Say goodbye to your old carpeting, say hello to bamboo and hard wood floors.

Specialized Rooms

Specialized rooms are one of todays most trendy home additions. many homeowners convert their grown kids old rooms or have a new one added to their house to have a special place where they could do their crafts, yoga and other passions.

More Spacious and Organized Garages

Better clean up that garage. According to experts, another one of todays big home trends is spacey and organized garages. Instead of the usual cornucopia of jumbled, well, everything, things should be neatly stored in shelves or cabinets. Organizing the garage and ridding it of useless junks will do something many homes have never had before: a spacious garage that actually holds cars.

One last parting tip: unless youre going to renovate the entire house, you really have to carefully study if the trend you chose to follow will suit the house and your needs. Why build a spacious kitchen if you never cook, right?

Visit this site before you make any remodeling and home addition plans.

Maraya Mullen is a copywriter affiliated with A and B Rose Remodeling, a company that specializes in executing renovating and home addition plans.

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6 Fantastic Public Golf Courses in North Carolina

The United States is blessed with many wonderful public golf courses, including several in the state of North carolina. In this article, we will review some of the best public golf courses in the North carolina, and what they offer.

1. pine Needles Lodge and golf course in southern Pines, was laid out by the Scottish born golf architect, Donald Ross. The course, which has always been lovingly maintained, has in recent years been restored back towards the original Donald Ross design, while the greens' foundations have nevertheless been rebuilt to USGA specifications.

2., 3. and 4. Pinehurt Resort and country club in the village of Pinehurst is home to no less than 8 different golf courses as well as the Pinehurst golf academy. The most highly rated are No. 2, No. 4 and No. 8. The No. 2 course was designed by Donald Ross in 1907. The No. 4 and No. 8 courses are both designs by Tom Fazio (2000 and 1996 respectively), although the No. 4 course owes a great debt to an earlier Ross course on the same site. The No. 2 is especially known as a challenging course, not because of any individual feature, but because of the combination of features that it offers, and hence is a popular site for golf championships, more in fact than any other course in the country, including having hosted the 2005 U.S. open Championship.

5. Rivers Edge golf course is an Arnold Palmer Signature course in Shallotte. The course is home to spectacular landscapes, and six of the holes sit upon bluffs which overlook the Shallotte River and surrounding marshlands.

6. Ocean Ridge plantation in Sunset beach is home to four courses: "Lion's Paw", "Panther's Run", "Tiger's Eye", and new in 2007, "Leopard's Chase". While all the courses have something special to offer, perhaps the best known and most highly regarded is the "Tiger's Eye" which has been rated as one of the best public golf courses in the country by golf Digest.

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