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Ask the Expert 2022 – Matt K.

MAK's own Matt K. was featured this year as SacTown magazine's construction expert. Read an extended version of his expert advice here!
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Kitchen Considerations: Appliance Garages

Appliance garages are a great way to preserve the lines in your kitchen by minimizing what is seen on your countertops while maximizing the number of small appliances you have easy access to.
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Kitchen Considerations: Lets Talk Trash!

As we become more sensitive to the environmental impacts of our choices a simple two-part trash/recycling center is a marked improvement to the wastebasket under the sink but there are more options to be explored.
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Kitchen Considerations: The Prep Sink

The prep sink is a valuable use of precious kitchen real estate. Adding a prep sink can dramatically change the functionality and capacity of your kitchen.
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Cautiously Emerging from Coronavirus Quarantine

Everyone is working hard to protect themselves and their families. As an organization that cares deeply about the wellbeing of our community, we’ve implemented CDC guidelines at all our job sites to keep everyone safe.
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Copper Pipe vs PEX Pipes for Water Supply Pipes

Copper or PEX for Water Supply Pipes

As copper becomes increasingly expensive, builders are turning to its lower-cost alternative – PEX pipe – for water supply pipes. Here's how they compare.
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Tips for Creating a “Calm” Home

Organizing your home isn’t something you do once and walk away. Follow these tips to create a "calm" home environment with thoughtful design, and efficient organizational practices.
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Making Your Dream Home a Reality in 2020

Whether it's a paint job or whole home remodel, kick off the new decade with a clean slate, starting with a home remodeling project in 2020.
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Surviving the Remodeling Roller Coaster

Outside of the dust, noise, and daily disruptions, let's have an honest discussion about what to expect, and the range of emotions you may experience during a home remodeling rollercoaster ride.
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Caseless Doors in High Traffic Areas

MAK D+B maximizes space in narrow, high-traffic entries using caseless doors and low-profile ball-hatch hardware.
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Save the Pink Bathroom

MAK recently completed a vintage inspired pink bathroom remodel. The client we work with was thrilled with the final project and brought to our attention the "Save the Pink Bathroom" campaign.
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Remodeling with Pets

Remodeling with Pets

At MAK, we know that your pets are members of your family. A remodel can be stressful to pets, but you can keep them comfortable during a project.
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Wild for Ultraviolet

Every year Pantone, the world’s authority on all things color, tries to boil down all the feelings and happenings in our social and political world into one striking shade.
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The Ever-Evolving Kitchen: A Case Study

Here at MAK, many, many of the projects that we take on involve kitchen remodels.
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When a Designer Describes their Process

The project was designed to allow the home to host large groups of traveling cyclists who come to the area for training and events.
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Built In Place Multitasker: The Window Seat

The built-in seat, broad enough to sit cross-legged and low enough to be able to lounge is a wonderful addition to any space.
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NARI Awards

We were awarded 3 Contractor of the Year awards from the Greater Sacramento Chapter of the National Association of the Remodeling Industry.
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A Sense of Place

A Sense of Place

Remodeling is full of tradeoff decisions: budget versus costs. Household size versus space. Lot size versus square footage of the house.
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Designing a Smarter Bathroom

A smart bathroom design incorporates safety, efficiency, and usability for all potential users, while bringing efficiency and beauty to the hardest working room in the home.
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Step One: Remove Head From Sand

Perhaps we can’t avoid the chemicals out there. But we can educate ourselves and make better choices moving forward.
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Honda Smart Home US: Finishes & Furnishings

Learn about the cutting-edge green finishes and furnishings that MAK selected for the Honda Smart Home in this video!
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HSH US: Environmental Innovation Showcase

Back in the summer of 2012, the Honda Motor Corporation requested MAK to join a team of sustainable design consultants. Here's what we accomplished.
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These walls do speak….and the stories they tell!

The Biltmore combines ingenuity and grace. Elegance and approachability.  Regionalism and grandeur. History and present. Weight and light.
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The Ten-Year Post: A Shining Start

Just over 10 years ago, the former owner of a 22’ Safari Sleep Airstream unhitched it in my driveway. That was the beginning of MAK Design+Build.
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The Wide, Wide World of MAK

Each of these homes represented a unique opportunity to create a satisfying, personal, but also universally appealing space for our clients.
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9 Things to Know Before You Remodel

Know your goals. Know your budget. Know your limitations. But also, know to have fun.
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Is Your Remodeler a Peach?

When trying to find the right remodeling contractor, comparing apples to apples may not be enough.
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Pile Sort Stash

How do you deal with the stuff piled up in your life? The stuff you think you need to keep, the stuff you need to sort, stash, or trash?
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Respect the Streng (Part 2)

As much as we respect and admire the Streng homes, there are some fundamental performance issues that often need attention.
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Form, Function, and Fun – The Round Up

Even if you have virtually no interest in Architecture or Design, chances are when I mention Frank Lloyd Wright, you think of Falling Water. 
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Respect the Streng (Part 1)

As a remodeler in Davis, it is with great respect and careful consideration that we approach any project in an iconic Streng brothers home. 
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Form, Function, and Fun – The Round Up:

We’re no strangers to 3Form and its other resin-panel cousins here at MAK. Part of the reason we are big fans of 3Form specifically, is their commitment to sustainability.
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Form, Function, and Fun – The Round Up

In this Form, Function, and Fun round up, we talk charred furniture, a New York loft renovation, the Taliesin Mod.Fab, and longboards in Los Angeles.
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Form, Function, and Fun – The "semi-regular" Round Up:

In this look at Form, Function, and Fun, we discuss the Carter Sparks Archive, wall tiles formed with love, and Seattle joining Architecture 2030.
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Fan of Fans (& other passive cooling techniques)

Last week was hot here in Davis, the sort of hot we have had mercifully little of this summer, where the day time temperature hovers woozily around and above the century mark.
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No Impact? Really?

Most of us aren’t going to get to “No Impact”, but thinking about how we can make smarter impacts might help communities throughout the world.
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Low Hanging Fruit

The array of green products, practices, labels, programs, rebates, and lingo can make anyone’s head spin. How does a homeowner go about assessing their needs and taking the right course of corrective action?
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Ask the Expert 2022 – Matt K.

MAK's own Matt K. was featured this year as SacTown magazine's construction expert. Read an extended version of his expert advice here!
read more

Kitchen Considerations: Appliance Garages

Appliance garages are a great way to preserve the lines in your kitchen by minimizing what is seen on your countertops while maximizing the number of small appliances you have easy access to.
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