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HGTV’s – “RESTORED” with Brett Waterman

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I highly recommend the HGTV show - RESTORED. Brett Waterman restores some great old houses as they should be restored. I am very pleased that there is a show like this and if you know me I am very critical of any work done on older homes. Other Home & Garden shows destroy the historic [...]

Monsters Attack 1908 Freehold NJ Home

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In 1908, a beautiful Late Queen Anne house was built in Freehold, New Jersey. This house stood proudly just outside Main Street of this once quaint town, exhibiting great architectural details representative of its time. Its beautiful, ornate Queen Anne windows allowed sunlight to dance through the rooms. However, in a turn of events that [...]

House Design using AI – you will be surprised

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AI, which stands for artificial intelligence, has brought us into the future. It can do a lot of amazing things, like designing houses and studying architecture and the housing market. One of the interesting things AI can do is analyze what a typical house looks like. And guess what? It's not those big, unattractive McMansions [...]

How to Avoid Dormer Mistakes

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Almost all dormers you see from the last 40 years are so, have been designed incorrectly. True, dormers are complicated to design but mostly because builders today and architects, that are NOT historic preservation architects, have no idea what they are doing. This is because the required courses universities offer architectural students changed in the [...]