Visbeen Associates is excited to share that we have chosen to display two billboards near New Buffalo, MI. If you happen to be near there, take Red Star Highway and check them out!
Monday, June 28, 2010
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Licensed in Wisconsin!
Wayne Visbeen recently received his architect's license in the state of Wisconsin! Take a look at this beautiful home Visbeen Associates designed there.
"The charm of England’s Cotswold style lives on in this impressive and inviting home. A stone and timber frame façade with a copper cupola and weathervane add to the exterior, as do two large rear fireplaces that are perfect for outdoor entertaining. Inside, an L-shaped floor plan is designed for convenience, leading from the large four-car garage into the main level. Highlights include an octagonal dining area off the kitchen, a large formal dining area and first-floor master suite. The upper level includes additional bedrooms while the lower includes guest space as well as a large recreation room and more."
Monday, June 21, 2010
Emmaus Wolfe
We're in the middle of a baby boom here! The Visbeen Associates family welcomes Emmaus Wolfe Lorenz to the world! He was born to Jonathan & LeeAnn (Miah & Adah) Lorenz on Tuesday, June 8 at 2:25a! At 7 pounds, 1 ounce and 19.5" long, he's a precious little bundle.
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Monday, June 14, 2010
Kitchen Renovation
Kitchen Renovation most important and useful element in a kitchen is the kitchen cabinet. The cabinets should be such that they provide greater storage space. If you have a small kitchen, you can install cabinets that reach up to the ceiling in order to have more space for storing. A cabinet with closed doors is better to keep your pots and pans safe and clean.
Kitchen lighting is also an important aspect of kitchen remodeling. When installing lights, the simplest thing which you must follow is that, lights with low intensity are sufficient for light colored kitchens while dark colored kitchens require lights having more intensity. Installing a bright light above the dining table is also a good option.
Bathroom Renovation
Tiles make the area look stylish and add to the aesthetic sense of a bathroom. Tiles should be chosen keeping in mind the prevalent or new accessories in the bathroom. Generally lighter colored tiles are preferred in smaller bathrooms as compared to the darker tiles that are better for the more spacious ones. Moreover, in smaller bathrooms, the floor tiles and the tiles on the walls need to be of the same variety. You can choose the various designs and styles that are available in ceramics and marble.
For more elaborate theme-based bathroom flooring, you can opt for tiles made of glass and even metal. Adding new tiles is one of the basic essentials while renovating a bathroom.
House Remodeling
House Remodeling is the most important investment that you will make during your lifetime.Many are willing to buy the upscale home and then do extensive remodeling once they take possession of the residence. People buying luxury homes are looking for something a bit above the rest and they want amenities in the home to reflect their leisurely lifestyle. They are open to adding any features that aren't already present in the home if they want it bad enough.
These buyers have specific requirements in the homes they buy, such as elaborate security systems, gourmet or designer kitchens, home theaters to seat 6 or more, and even wine cellars. As a result, they are willing to do extensive remodels on their homes to raise their property value. They desire furniture and décor to match their lavish taste.
3D House Plans
3D House Plans If you have watched the recent psycho-thriller - 'Inception', you know what lucid dreaming and creating virtual dream worlds actually mean. Like the dream architects, you can actually learn how to design a virtual house and its surrounding landscape, using advanced software programs.
3D House Plans
Kitchen Remodeling Design
Kitchen Remodeling Design the Kitchen Design: While remodeling the kitchen, the first thing to consider is the design. Plan it in such a way that the movement inside the kitchen is smooth and the space is utilized perfectly. While the classic kitchen triangle is the most popular choice, other designs like the one wall design for long narrow kitchens or the U shaped design or increasing efficiency are equally popular.
From kitchen softwares to book based designs, the difficult task of space-planning can be made easy with these designing aids. More on kitchen design layout.
Home Furniture
Home Furniture another sheet of graph paper to make scale models of the furniture that is to go into the room. Furniture models can be colored with colored pencils, cut out and labeled. These pieces of paper are much easier to move around to manage the furniture arranging than moving of actual furniture.
Home Furniture
Furniture In Home
Furniture In Home kitchen island is a stylish solution In the bedroom you can either go the whole hog and get yourself a stunning wrought iron canopy bed, or go for more graceful charm with an intricately designed wrought iron headboards. Or, if you like the minimalist look, you could choose to have a starkly plain wrought iron bed made of simple straight lines.
You could add a finishing touch with small wrought iron table bases topped with smoked glass as side tables, on top of which you can place wrought iron table lamps to give that cozy look.
Bathroom Interior Design
Bathroom Interior Design the bathroom in the right shades helps in making a small bathroom appear larger. Pale, soft shades are the most preferred options for bathrooms. A dark shade only makes the bathroom appear compact. If you find pale shades really boring, you can opt for colorful bathroom accessories. A bright towel hung on a panel or a cabinet painted in cheerful tones can make a smaller space appear more interesting visually.
Bathroom Interior Design interior design companies that love to do home improvements that make a dramatic difference, and the bathroom area of the home is their specialty.
Interior Home Decorating
Interior Home Decorating spaces generally If you have decided on a specific look, you have to make sure that the furnishings and accessories that will gel with the theme. You can either choose one theme for the entire house or you can have different themes. Personally I'd go for different themes. It might be fun to be able to say to guests, "So, would you like to stay on the Pacific Island or in the Serengeti, or would you care for a nap in Sixteenth Century England?" On the other hand, since you're the one that has to mop up the Island, the Serengeti, and Old England, maybe you should think about these home decorating ideas first.
Decorating home interior can be rather simple and easy.
House Interior Design
House Interior Design a note pad and pen with you on your journey and take notes.The other factor that considerably helped this new-found interest was the spread of the use of small glass window panes at previously open window spaces.
Slightly dull and certainly misshapen, these blown pieces kept the elements at bay and meant that window openings could now be enlarged, thus allowing more light into the interior - an added spur to decorating not unlike the first spring sunshine that prods us into spring cleaning.
House Interior Design
Modern House Plans
Modern House Plans town homes generally match the current One of the most best things that you need to take into account while using an eco friendly plan for your home is the material that you will use for building it. While you may not be able to use all sustainable material, you can definitely make an effort to use material like wood that can be recycled or has already been recycled. Another material is rubber that has been recycled. You can use them for the flooring.
They do not use carbon in their manufacture, so they are friendly to the environment.
Luxury House Plans
Luxury House Plans about every floor plan, other than tiny log cabins, have features such as a great room, kitchen dining room area, master suites, secondary bedrooms, and an open loft. But other rooms unique to luxury lines are foyers or grand entry ways, large first floor laundries, walk in pantries, dens, libraries, gazebos, and exercise rooms. Other amenities commonly found in these homes are log spiral staircases, curved stairways, flared log character posts, handcrafted log scissor trusses, huge stone fireplaces.
In the process of looking for luxury house plans.
Luxury house plans may include extras such as a family home theater as part of a basement or family room area.
Bathroom Design
Bathroom Design bathroom is one of the most important rooms of the house. If you have a large or a master sized bathroom, then you have more choice of picking up of paint colors, and lights. You can experiment with different themes, try out some wall art, use colorful lights, the choices are endless. Here are ideas, that will help you decorate a luxurious looking bathroom.
Today, there are many designs of bathtubs, shower units, sinks, countertops, etc. available. You need to pick all these items in such a way, that they all look in harmony when placed together. Here are two important bathroom necessities, the tub and shower design ideas.
Interior Design Software
Interior Design Software software programs allow you to create the room you are decorating right on the computer.
Garage plans software come with an array of functions. Through a user friendly interface, you can access the various features of this software. It allows you to modify the size of your garage, while repositioning the garage doors, windows and other objects. Besides, you can choose from an array of roofing and garage flooring options. It also allows you to manipulate finer design aspects such as stud size, stud spacing etc. You can choose a simple four walled feature or you may move to the more advanced custom built garage feature.
Besides, design and planning, the software also allows you to get an estimate on materials. The quantity of materials is also selected by the software according to the size of your garage. This feature particularly helps you to order the correct quantity of materials. The final cost of materials is also calculated by the software. 
Floor Plan Design
Floor Plan Design Designing a floor plan of your house is all about artfully using space and resources to create a comfortable home. You may be planning to make a floor plan for a bedroom in your new house or you may be designing master bedroom addition floor plans for your existing house. It is not necessary that you take a crash course in architecture to design your master bedroom floor plans.
Addition of extra space and the designing effort it requires can be done by anybody who is willing to study and apply what he has learned. Let me share some tips on how to go about designing master bedroom floor plans and the preparation it takes.
Small Home Plans
Small Home Plans. Cabin floor plans are generally small floor plans that are less than 1000 square feet. Although cabins are not specific home style, they are affordable small homes with one story and a front porch for family and friends to gather. A number of cabin plans are large enough to be called a home, with all the amenities like hot tubs, skylights and other comforts. Earlier, cabins were built just with the purpose of being permanent homes. In those times cabins could be built with very basic tools and in very little time. They were extremely durable, sturdy and very inexpensive. In the present day, small cabins can be bought with cabin plans and their price can be the same as any traditional homes or sometimes even more. With the advancement of technology, these cabins have evolved into beautiful homes. They prove as ideal vacation homes who wish to retract from their everyday lives.
Modern Small Home Plans 2011
Custom Home Designs
Custom Home Designs Modern Custom Home Designs Glazed tiles are ceramic tiles that have been coated with a glaze and then fired. The result is a glass-like surface that is both glossy as well as being water and stain resistant. These are commonly found in areas that are prone to getting wet.
Custom Home Designs 2011
Select the right materials.
Architect Home Design
Modern Architect Home Design For those opportune people who are longing to have a home in Gurgaon,there is good news. In addition to its outstanding software services, exotic shopping malls Gurgaon, one of the satellite cities of Haryana, has a bountiful of luxury home architects to cater varied design demands of the buyers in the region.
Gurgaon architects visualize design specifications of their customers on a paper in a proficient manner and thereafter embark on construction and renovation details.
Home Plans
Modern Home Plans 2011 information for building a tree house is given in short in the following paragraph. The frame of a tree house includes the floor, walls and roof. To construct a simple tree house, one would require a plywood made from pine having dimensions 2' × 2' and 2' × 1'. The floor for a tree house needs to customized according to the tree shape. For a flat roof, the dimensions of the plywood should be 8' × 4' with a thickness of ¾". For the longer 2 walls, the dimensions of plywood should be 220 x 100 cm with a thickness of ½". The dimensions for the remaining 2 walls, or the shorter walls, should be 100x100 cm with the same ½" thickness. A 50 × 100 cm portion would be required for the door, while 75 × 50 cm portions are recommended for windows. A 220 × 100 cm, ¾" thick plywood makes up the floor.
Home Plans
can decide on the property category and the age of the home.
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