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How to Prepare Your Home for a Kitchen Remodel Without Disrupting Everyday Life

By |2026-06-11T12:17:26-07:00June 11th, 2026|Happy Home Blog|

How to Prepare Your Home for a Kitchen Remodel Without Disrupting Everyday Life Preparing for a kitchen remodel involves much more than choosing cabinets, countertops, and appliances. Because the kitchen often becomes inaccessible during construction, thoughtful preparation helps protect your daily routine, reduce unnecessary stress, and keep the remodeling process moving smoothly. A well-prepared home

Kitchen Sink Considerations: How to Choose the Right Sink for Function, Maintenance, and Daily Use

By |2026-05-08T07:44:27-07:00May 8th, 2026|Happy Home Blog|

Kitchen Sink Considerations: How to Choose the Right Sink for Function, Maintenance, and Daily Use A kitchen sink affects far more than appearance. It impacts prep space, cleanup workflow, maintenance, countertop usability, and how the kitchen functions throughout the day. Kitchen sink considerations should include material durability, bowl configuration, mounting style, and how the sink

Now and Then

By |2022-07-21T06:51:10-07:00September 20th, 2019|Happy Home Blog|

I was a young child when my family moved to the Brazos Valley in 1967 and I am infused with these clay soils. Back then, Bryan had about 30,000 residents and College Station about half that number.  Presently, College Station and Bryan are the 13th-largest metropolitan area in Texas with 273,101 people combined. Bryan and

The Importance of Home Maintenance

By |2019-09-17T13:24:29-07:00September 17th, 2019|Happy Stuff|

We are excited to announce a new division of Stearns Design Build, Stearns Home-Care. As remodelers, on a daily basis, we see the impact of a lack of maintenance. Often homeowners just don’t know how to do the maintenance. Other times they are busy professionals that don’t have time. The most troubling is when we

Speaking to Your Home

By |2019-01-14T10:53:24-08:00January 14th, 2019|Happy Home Blog|

I have always advised those who seek to build a home to camp on the land at least once, and through the course of a year if possible, before embarking on design. “let the land speak to you,” I advise. And the same is true of those who have bought a home and want to

Biophilia

By |2014-11-04T17:25:59-08:00November 4th, 2014|CTA Consultation|

To the extent that we seek “green” or sustainable solutions, it is not enough to consider the resources that we use in building, we must consider our relationship to all resources. We must design homes that put us into relationship with life’s resources so that we can become aware of our part of a process of dynamic balance.

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