Archive for the ‘architecture’ Category

July 07, 2009

Street Presence

by: Taz Loomans

Tweet How many times have you driven around in neighborhoods that are not quite there yet and when you see a unique and well-kept home you know that things will turn around in that neighborhood? At Blooming Rock, our goal is to positively impact the neighborhood we develop in. One of the most effective ways to do that is to improve the street presence of the home. We believe that improving even one home on a street will encourage better maintenance and general improvement of the other homes on that street and as one street gets better, the surrounding ones…

May 27, 2009

Transformation

by: Taz Loomans

Tweet This is what the back wall of the kitchen used to look like. Missing window pane, ugly vinyl tile flooring, old beat-up door, and warped laminate countertop. This is what it looks like now. We replaced the window pane, added a new steel door, replaced the old baseboard and door frame, replaced the old laminate counter top with a new IKEA countertop and best of all – that ugly vinyl flooring is now a beautiful gray laminate floating floor. The original kitchen… The new kitchen…We added a new tile backsplash, new sink and new faucet along with the new…

May 08, 2009

Beautiful New Flooring in the Kitchen!

by: Taz Loomans

Tweet We found a great floor at IKEA for the kitchen that fits in perfectly with the modern look we’re going for. This is a laminate flooring that doesn’t pretend to be wood or something else. It’s just an awesome simple gray laminate flooring that looks great! The price is right at $2.25/sq ft considering you can install it yourself and it comes with the foam underlayment right on the laminate panel. This floating floor turned out to be the perfect solution to cover the existing vinyl tile. It’s a simple click-in-place floor, no adhesive, no underlayment required. It took…

April 23, 2009

Tile Removal

by: Taz Loomans

Tweet Yesterday and today we had the onerous task of removing the blue VCT tile from Unit 1847 to expose the beautiful chocolate-colored concrete beneath. The living room looked like this before we started: Removing this VCT required a special tool that we rented from Home Depot. Although this tool made the project alot easier, it was still a painstaking and physically difficult process to remove each tile as you can see from the video. tile removal video After much work and sweat and approximately 7 hours, we removed all the tile! Now we face the hurdle of removing the…

April 15, 2009

3 Palms Existing Conditions and Proposed Work

by: Taz Loomans

Tweet Blooming Rock’s first project! We purchased a great foreclosed block duplex and are now in the process of revitalizing it. This duplex is located near Thomas Rd. and 16th St. which is in keeping with our commitment to work in Central Phoenix. The building has some very nice block details which are ripe for accenting. Proposed work: Paint exterior building, find a way to accent block details, colors to be determined. Clean up weeds in front yard, add dg, and add some sculptural metal pieces along with possibly some desert drought-resistant plants such as prickly pears and/or agave. Proposed…