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What is your favorite room of your home?  For those of you whose answers came easy enjoy that luxury.  You love parts of your home.  Let me say it again, “YOU LOVE PARTS OF YOUR HOME!”  For those of you who struggle with your home not fitting your expectations don’t worry.  It’s okay.  You attack this problem in two ways:

1) Like to Love – Take the room you like the most and pick one or two things to change about it.  Maybe it’s a new lamp or a new side table.  Or it could be adding crown molding and repainting the walls.  Small actions can push a room you like to become a room you LOVE!

2) Hate to Love (or Like may be good enough) – Remodel the room that causes you the most pain.  Maybe it’s the bathroom with green tile.  Believe it or not, some of us feel totally fed up with a house when really one room is the problem.   Remodeling can help this.  Now, be forewarned, when you start this process of doing a major shift one room at a time that you are destined to keep moving your way through the house.  It will feel so good that in a year or two you’ll want to take on the next room.

My goal, as you know, is that you will Love Where You Live!

On this trip I experienced the ultimate backyard and my kind of Man Cave. This is a fantastic example of how to create the home of your dreams. Isn’t the backyard below absolutely amazing? Do you want to know how this friend of mine created it? 1) He and his wife considered the type of home they truly wanted. 2) They decided to downsize to this 1400 sf home. 3) They waited a few years before remodeling to get to know the home they purchased.The result: Their patience, planning, and hard work was rewarded. Interesting Fact: See those bricks used as pavers? They were salvaged from old town Chicago.

Pictured below is the ultimate Man Cave in my opinion! It functions as a combination home office and pool house complete with custom steam shower and guitar collection. I characterize it as having charming class and personalized comfort. Imagine yourself retreating to this space for time away, working on your next book, or playing music with friends and family out here.