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RSR Development Design Build of Alamo Receives Best Of Houzz 2014 Award

RSR Development Design Build of Alamo Receives

Best Of Houzz 2014 Award

Annual Survey and Analysis of 16 Million Monthly Users

Reveals Top-Rated Building, Remodeling and Design Professionals

Alamo,CA, February 4, 2014 – RSR Development Design Build of Alamo,CA has been awarded “Best Of Houzz” by Houzz, the leading platform for home remodeling and design. The 25 year old remodeling company was chosen by the more than 16 million monthly users that comprise the Houzz community.

The Best Of Houzz award is given in two categories: Customer Satisfaction and Design. Customer Satisfaction honors are determined by a variety of factors, including the number and quality of client reviews a professional received in 2013. Design award winners’ work was the most popular among the more than 16 million monthly users on Houzz, known as “Houzzers,” who saved more than 230 million professional images of home interiors and exteriors to their personal ideabooks via the Houzz site, iPad/iPhone app and Android app. Winners will receive a “Best Of Houzz 2014” badge on their profiles, showing the Houzz community their commitment to excellence. These badges help homeowners identify popular and top-rated home professionals in every metro area on Houzz.  

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“Houzz provides homeowners with the most comprehensive view of home building, remodeling and design professionals, empowering them to find and hire the right professional to execute their vision,” said Liza Hausman, vice president of community for Houzz. “We’re delighted to recognize RSR Development Design Build among our “Best Of” professionals for customer satisfaction as judged by our community of homeowners and design enthusiasts who are actively remodeling and decorating their homes.”

With Houzz, homeowners can identify not only the top-rated professionals like RSR Development Design Build, but also those whose work matches their own aspirations for their home. Homeowners can also evaluate professionals by contacting them directly on the Houzz platform, asking questions about their work and reviewing their responses to questions from others in the Houzz community.

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About RSR Development Design Build

BEST OF HOUZZ 2014: Full-service design + build Residential Remodeling Contractor and General Contractor, and EPA Lead-Safe Certified Firm known for personalized service and expertise in fine home remodeling, custom home building, and formaldehyde-free cabinetry. We make sure you we are on time, and you home is cleaned everyday. 

We support LEED quality green architecture and design and offer informed choices about green building products for an eco-friendly home. 

We are dedicated to providing the finest craftsmanship and design acumen, supported by an unrivaled project management process. The results are over 25 years of great relationships with satisfied clients. 

We service the 680 and 24 Corridors 

We also have our own design professionals for value engineering and design suggestion/analysis. 

It all starts with your free in-home consultation. Call us today, 925-273-4108BEST OF HOUZZ 2014: Full-service design + build Residential Remodeling Contractor and General Contractor, and EPA Lead-Safe Certified Firm known for personalized service and expertise in fine home remodeling, custom home building, and formaldehyde-free cabinetry. We make sure you we are on time, and you home is cleaned everyday. 

We support LEED quality green architecture and design and offer informed choices about green building products for an eco-friendly home. 

We are dedicated to providing the finest craftsmanship and design acumen, supported by an unrivaled project management process. The results are over 25 years of great relationships with satisfied clients. 

We service the 680 and 24 Corridors 

We also have our own design professionals for value engineering and design suggestion/analysis. 

It all starts with your free in-home consultation. Call us today, 925-273-4108

About Houzz

Houzz is the leading platform for home remodeling and design, providing people with everything they need to improve their homes from start to finish - online or from a mobile device. From decorating a room to building a custom home, Houzz connects millions of homeowners, home design enthusiasts and home improvement professionals across the country and around the world. With the largest residential design database in the world and a vibrant community powered by social tools, Houzz is the easiest way for people to get the design inspiration, project advice, product information and professional reviews they need to help turn ideas into reality. For more information, visit www.houzz.com

The Best of Houzz Winners 2014 honors the top pros in the Houzz professional community. There are two Best of Houzz categories, Best of Houzz for Customer Satisfaction and Best of Houzz for Design. And we’re so pleased that RSR Development has been honored with the Best of Houzz Customer Satisfaction Award 2014! 
Now we have a brand new Houzz badge on our RSR Development Design + Build Houzz Profile. 

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For those who cringe when HGTV house hunters gripe that a McMansion's racquetball-court-size closet is too small to fit all their shoes and its two-and-a-half-car garage is cramped, the 42 dwellings detailed in Phyllis Richardson's Nano House: Innovations for Small Dwellings (Thames and Hudson, 2011) offer another way home.

Richardson—the author of the XS series on small buildings and the Archetcetera blog—shows us "structures that demonstrate a resounding appreciation for space, resources, and materials through their effective use on a small scale." In Nano House, "small scale" means an interior space of less than 807 square feet, though more than half of the designs are under 500 square feet.

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From certain angles the FabLab House is reminiscent of a covered wagon, but its shape is more accurately described as a "distorted paraboloid," which milks the most living space and solar-energy production from a lightweight design. The airy great room has living, dining (a table for eight!), sleeping, and office areas—and there's even a peep-through kitchen (shown above the potted plants in the left photo) and an upstairs sleeping loft.

The all-timber, highly clever building has a shaded outdoor area and natural ventilation, thanks to its perch atop three "legs," which hold the utilities. The FabLab House was built for the 2010 Solar Decathlon Europe—and not surprisingly, it won the People's Choice Award. You can order your own FabLab for about $60,000 (tax not included).

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Setting Up A Temporary Kitchen

Part 6 Of Our Real Life Remodeling Journey

Demolition #2 involved the kitchen and that meant establishing a location for a temporary kitchen. 
The saying that the kitchen is the hub of the home is no lie and its significance as a central part of daily life is reinforced when you no longer have it.

If you lose your kitchen during a remodel, finding a space for a temporary one becomes job #1. In our case we had two choices: we could move the kitchen to the finished half of the basement or into the living room which was adjacent to the existing kitchen.

The basement offered some advantages in that we have an extra (albeit old) refrigerator down there already. The laundry sink is there too which makes it convenient for cleaning the dishes. The problem is that our basement is already pulling duty as the stand-in family room.

One of the important things for us in this whole process was to have a place where we could go to escape the chaos of the remodeling. Maintaining the sanctity of the basement as a family room where we could relax was paramount so we opted to use the living room as the temporary kitchen.

Removing The Old Kitchen First

After the demolition of the family room, the kitchen was next. The cabinets came down as did the walls and ceiling. Some of the cabinets got a new lease on life in the garage. Their removal from the kitchen wasn't too difficult although anything more than a single wall cabinet really required two people for a safe extraction from the wall.

Wall Cabinets & Peninsula Are Gone. . .

. . .Along With The Old Inoperable Range Hood

The Drywall Comes Off Too
Making Space

Before moving anything into the "new" kitchen we had to clear some space to accommodate the items to be relocated there. That meant moving some of the living room furniture to other places in the house.

The smaller chairs were reassigned to various bedrooms and the basement, as was the coffee table. We let the couch stay put because the the removal of the other furniture pieces afforded us enough space. We kept a narrow console table in place because it made a convenient location for the microwave and toaster oven.

Before embarking on this exercise we found it particularly helpful to stop and plan how this whole temporary kitchen setup was going to play out. We determined which items in the new space needed to be moved and where they would go. Likewise we thought about which items could stay and might be of use.

Moving Into The Temporary Kitchen

The next chore in setting up a temporary kitchen was packing up everything in the existing kitchen that we didn't absolutely need and finding some other place to store these items. You can read about that part of our effort in Part 3.

After that, we had to find an appropriate method, means and/or place to put the essentials in the new space. For example, we needed a spot for the food stuffs we use on a daily basis like cereals, breads, lunch items and the like. We also needed a spot for plates, bowls, cups, pots, pans and utensils.

The Living Room As Our New Kitchen

Items that we found helpful in establishing our ad hoc kitchen included a small, cheap pantry that originally housed a bunch of cookbooks and spices. We used that as our main pantry where most of the non-perishable food got stored. It's not big, roughly 2 feet wide by 4 feet tall, but it did the job without taking up a lot of room.

We also borrowed a few other items from around the house to use in place of things that were originally stored in the kitchen cabinets. We used two plastic bins that held unused toys and an old stand-up stereo cabinet to house our dishes and other essentials. If you don't have items like these around the house that you can press into service, you can purchase some cheap bins or shelving units to tide you over.

One other alternative that we employed as well was cardboard boxes. We found the ones from the liquor store to be pretty handy since they usually come with dividers to protect the liquor bottles. We used them to store glassware and things like cooking oil and vinegar bottles.

If you're planning on going through a similar type of remodel and need to relocate the kitchen, pare down as much as you can. Unless you live in a gymnasium, your temporary kitchen will get cluttered pretty quickly if you try and retain everything that was in your old kitchen.

A Place For Appliances & The Table

The third big piece in this effort was finding a place for the appliances. In our case, that meant the microwave, toaster oven and fridge. The refrigerator had wheels so it wasn't a big deal to move it into the living room.

We put our toaster oven and microwave on the console cabinet, tucked up against the wall. The spot was convenient and at a nice height too. If there's any way to locate these particular of appliances at countertop height, do so. It's a lot easier to use a microwave oven when you don't have to stoop down to floor level.

Mission Control: Microwave, Toaster Oven, Pantry & Utensils

Our old kitchen was disassembled in stages which meant we still had access to our electric cooktop and kitchen sink for a period of time which was a huge help. If possible I recommend negotiating with your contractor to work around these items until it's absolutely necessary to tear them out.

Our backup plan in the event this wasn't possible was to purchase a portable electric cooktop. They come in single and double-burner varieties and aren't that expensive. You can find them for $50 to $100. It's a small price to pay if you're losing your kitchen for a couple of months and compared to the cost of a full kitchen remodel, it's a drop in the bucket. Just be sure to follow the manufacturer's directions about locating it in the proper place to avoid a fire hazard.

The last thing to move into the temporary kitchen was the kitchen table. We made sure we removed enough furniture in the living room so that we'd have enough space for the table and chairs.

A Little Cramped But Usable

Based on our experience the foundation for a successful temporary kitchen involves several key elements:

• A place to relocate the stand-in kitchen with adequate space to accommodate your needs
• Good planning ahead of time to determine where things will go, what's essential and what's not
• A pairing-down to just the items that are really needed (it's not like you're going to be baking cookies and entertaining guests during this time period)
• Provisioning with sufficient appliances to keep life bearable (a microwave, toaster oven, maybe a portable electric cooktop)
• Last but certainly not least, a bit of tolerance, for both the people you live with and the conditions you're living under

That last point is important because surviving any major disruption, particularly to your kitchen, changes all of your daily habits. You have to get used to knowing where the cereal is or where the forks and plates are. There's usually less physical room so you're in close quarters and will stumble over each other from time to time. That can put some stress on a family. But going into this with the knowledge that it's temporary combined with some good planning on the front end should hold you in good stead while you ride out your remodel in your temporary kitchen.
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