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Why Custom Cabinets & Millwork Are Worth the Investment
One of the finest elements of a custom home is custom millwork. Homes that feel distinctive often have beautifully crafted doors, molding, trim, siding, cabinetry, wainscoting, and/or built-ins—all of which fall into the category of millwork. As the homeowner, you want a home that fully achieves your goals for aesthetic beauty and function, and custom millwork gives you and your designer control over the materials, style, and function of your spaces. Here, six reasons custom millwork is essential to a luxury home build or remodel:
High-quality Subcontractors: The “Secret Sauce” in Your Construction Project
We’ll let you in on an often-overlooked fact of custom home building and remodeling: Your general contractor is only as good as...
What Role Does an Architect Play in a Remodel?
For large-scale projects like ours, Duet Build needs an architect to create stamped drawings to submit to the city for permitting. But even beyond that requirement, homeowners need an architect to help them figure out how to transform their spaces from what they have into what they want.
5 Tips to Hiring a Great General Contractor
We’re not exactly unbiased when it comes to the topic of hiring building contractors, but we have a lot of experience in this arena: On one hand, we’ve seen truly great projects (by our crews and by our competitors), and on the other hand, we’ve heard horror stories from broken-hearted homeowners who dropped their GCs mid-project after enduring too many problems to count.
The Duet Build Difference
Duet Build is a new, old company: It’s been nearly a year since Doug Canady’s retirement, and Duet Build stands on the foundation of the excellence he established over 30 years and innovates every day.
Meet Liz Hester!
Liz Hester is new to Duet Build but a familiar face in the Denver design and construction communities. She’s an interior designer and operations expert—right-brained and left-brained—who began her career at Opus A&E, a design-build firm that includes disciplines from land acquisition and development to architecture, engineering, interior design, and construction. There, she developed a keen foundational understanding of the entire design-build process, which she’s relied on throughout her career.