The Artisan Contracting Blog

If you’re thinking of selling your house, you’ll want to make sure that it’s in tip-top shape to attract buyers. In addition to a thorough cleaning or staging, fixing minor problems, and making repairs or upgrades, will help you polish your home’s overall look and appeal. You want to make a good first impression for […]

Completing renovations on your home can be really exciting: you get to pick out new fixtures and appliances, new paint colours and potentially all new furniture. In order to get the maximum return on your investment, it’s important to make sure you avoid these 10 home renovation mistakes. 1. Incorrectly Measuring for Cabinets This is one of […]

Your home is your space: to relax, throw parties, rest, enjoy and spend time with friends and family in. Over time you might feel as though your home needs some retouching but you aren’t quite prepared to do major renovations, or maybe you don’t want to change the structure of your home but just the […]

1. Budget For people who are fitting or re-furbishing their bathroom, there are a range of bathtub options available to them. Firstly, of course you don’t actually have to have a bathtub, many people live only taking showers, and they can be economic on the amount of water used and the amount of time spent washing […]

It is no secret that a home with drafts can by very expensive to heat as any warmth that you inject into it is quickly lost through the gap where the draft is coming from. Drafts generally come in through old windows and doors, so to avoid the drafts and consequently, heat loss, the gaps […]

When we go inside our homes, and then shut and lock the front door, we generally feel safe. Unfortunately, this is a false security for most people, as what a lot of people are unaware of is the fact that unless the door is reinforced, it can be easily kicked down. After all, an inch […]

When choosing baseboard material for your project, you may be surprised to find out that selecting what material you use doesn’t have to be difficult or expensive. Even though the cost is a big factor, most homeowners find that their choice is dependent on what they want the finished baseboards to look like once installed. […]

Several different types of materials are used for exterior doors. This article will help you make the right choice by explaining the pros and cons of each material. HOLLOW METAL Hollow metal doors are extremely durable. It is this property that makes them ideal for external door applications. Hollow metal is made of cold rolled […]

When you are thinking about getting or replacing a home exterior, you have a number of options available to you in terms of the material that you are going to use. Your decision of which one to use should be based on two factors – the aesthetic look of the material on the outside of […]

Home renovations can often send feelings of anxiety, stress and fear through a homeowner’s mind. Projects can seem too large to handle on your own, or hard to gauge at all without having a contracting expert to advise you that you really trust. Although no project is too big for the right team, even small […]