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SilverMark Launches New E-newsletter
Welcome to your first e-newsletter from SilverMark. We share a common interest — making homes more functional, livable and beautiful. Now, through our e-newsletter, we can share remodeling ideas, home maintenance tips, news on exciting products and more.
You know how we feel about good design! So, every issue is designed as a quick read to keep you up to date on remodeling trends in the Twin City area and around the country. Of course, you can unsubscribe at any time. Instead, we hope you’ll look forward to reading it and forwarding it to friends who, like you, enjoy exploring new possibilities for improving living spaces and getting greater enjoyment from being at home.
Remodel “Found Spaces” into Favorite Places
  Our clients, the Hyatts, wanted more living space and natural light, but weren’t sure they had room – and budget – for a major renovation. SilverMark found the answer in the south-facing porch that ran along their garage. Given our Twin Cities climate, the porch was only used a few months of the year. The rest of the time, its roof blocked the sun, leaving the north-facing living areas feeling gloomy. The solution was to convert the porch into a window-filled sitting room that would add light and over 200 square feet of living space. The budget was also workable since remodeling a “found space” can cost 30%-40% less than an addition.
 From little-used porch to
year-round sitting room
SilverMark remodeled the porch into a cheery sitting room that floods the adjoining rooms with daylight. We also added big new windows to the living room of the home and made cosmetic updates – including smoothing out the dated look of a spray-textured ceiling. To keep these spaces bright even without daylight, we built a lighting cove around the ceiling of the entire living area. Ambient fixtures are hidden behind the cove to give the rooms a pleasing glow, and the architectural band adds a horizontal accent that makes the rooms feel even larger.
What “new spaces” are hiding in your home?
Want to add more living space or shift existing space to where you’ll enjoy it more? Basements can be a great source of “found space,” and at SilverMark we’re very creative at basement remodeling. Under-used rooms are also candidates. For example, if you just use your formal dining room a few times a year you might want to combine that space with your kitchen or living room to create a great room you’ll enjoy all 365 days. And don’t forget to look out...and up! Right now, we’re talking with clients about using the flat roof of an existing one-story “bump out” to create new upstairs space to enlarge a bedroom and add an extra bath.
We’re always happy to share ideas. We have years of experience, too, so we can often spot new spaces hiding right there in your existing spaces! If you’d like to look at possibilities, just give us a call.
SilverMark is an EPA Certified Renovator
According to the EPA: “Lead paint poisoning affects over one million children today. Adverse health effects include learning disabilities, behavioral problems, and speech delays. If not done in a lead-safe manner, renovations and repair activities that disturb lead-based paint can expose children, as well as adults, to harmful levels of lead dust.”
Since April 22, 2010, any firm performing renovation, repair and painting on projects that disturb lead-based paint in homes built before 1978 must be trained and certified as EPA Certified Renovators. SilverMark received our EPA certification this past May.
Thanks for the Referrals and Repeat Business!
We’d like to thank Elizabeth & Michael Balay for referring their friends to us to help them with their remodeling project. We’d also like to thank Don & Irene Tremblay, Bob & Trish Ura, Gary & Trudy Hanus, Linda Smith, and Kathy Peterson & Molly Lanpher, all previous SilverMark clients, for asking us to do additional projects for them.
 See you next month!
Terry
Terry Streich, President
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