When making your yard look elegant and beautiful, landscape lights are essential. Not only does lighting make your area safer, lighting transforms your outdoor landscape designs into a place that has more elegance and charm. We can help you with the ideas you have in mind for making your yard beautiful, classy and safe.
At Hopkins & Porter, we’re dedicated to providing design-build services through our expert, residential architects in Potomac, MD and the surrounding area.
Hopkins & Porter takes joy in what we do because we have a love for the design-build process, which leads to excellence, creativity, and elegance.
For those who manage governmental and military institutions, a security fence is going to be essential to deter potential intruders from entering the property. In those scenarios, you obviously won't be installing an inviting picket fence. When your organization works with secret military equipment or other projects outside the building or in, you want a fence that gives the impression you don't want trespassers. This is going to mean a fence that's impossible to climb as well as one with reliable security features.
As you drive up to your house at night, you notice it needs some lights. You want it to look like the neighbor’s on the right with soft lights that seem to have been placed with an artistic eye. You don’t want it to look like the neighbor’s on the left who some nights might be mistaken for a UFO.
When it comes to dealing with home renovations, it can be easy to forget that you may find yourself in a position of short-term upkeep of the old homestead while you pursue the long-term dream of living in the completed renovation. Depending on the state of the home and the extent of the renovation needed, upkeep has the potential to become a job in and of itself. As long as you know what to look out for, however, you could turn enjoy full-time benefits for a part-time job.
Looking to upgrade and remodel the sink in your kitchen? Check this article out to get some quality ideas on the perfect fit for a sink in your kitchen.
Imagine you're in your hammock. Your favorite music is playing in the background as a gentle breeze gently rocks you. The day goes by slowly as you are relaxing in your backyard oasis.
"One day I shall buy some land, plant countless seeds and watch them grow into beautiful flowering trees. A cool breeze will bring me sweet fragrances, from a thousand flowering trees. I shall listen to the songs, from birds perched in the tall flowering trees." (adapted from Rishi Menon)
It can become so easy to get caught up in the big picture when planning bathroom renovations that you overlook some minor additions capable of becoming the icing on the cake. These five ideas may not equal the big-ticket items around which your dream bathroom centers, but few bathroom renovations would not benefit from including at least one or two.
More...
That new riding mower you used this last summer may be sitting in your garage ready to withstand any winter weather you perhaps already experienced. Just like your car, it's going to need some maintenance before you store it away for a number of months. Otherwise, you face a riding mower that might not even start next time. And you don't want that when the lawn is up to your pant legs by March or April.
Well-designed outdoor spaces expand your living areas and endow your house with more curb appeal.
You can do some of this landscaping yourself, to include planting annuals, pruning trees, and setting out a fountain. However, watch out for problems if you intend on tackling more complex efforts such as the following.
Green Home Building has become a staple type of construction for the efficiency and environmentally friendly conscious across the U.S. When deciding to build your new home there are many considerations you and your contractor must make to not only keep it green, but make it comfortable as well. With careful planning and the use of some innovative construction products, you can build the green home of your dreams.
When a job needs to be done right the first time, the Hopkins & Porter Handymen are available at the drop of a hat to assess, schedule, and complete all of those troublesome home repairs that need to be done, but are too much of a pain to deal with.