The Accent Piece
The Accent Piece is a blog about simplifying projects for the home like DIY furniture builds, painting projects, home decor, and tips on new home construction.
Tips and tricks for building your perfect, dream home. We help think through all the small details with real world examples from our personal home build.
Designing kitchen cabinets in our new home was one of my favorite parts of home building. I loved thinking through what will go where and how to bring that to life. Creating a space that is both beautiful and functional was very important to me. This is especially true in a kitchen! Today, I thought …
In this article, you will find details on how long a roofing job takes on a typical home. I will be sharing my experience on how long it took the roofing company that we hired to install a new roof on our new construction home. How Long Roofing Takes Typically, roofing takes around 3 full …
When we began building our new home, I knew one thing I definitely wanted to do during the framing stage of our build. It is a dedication of our home of sorts, and we will did it by writing some of our favorite bible verses on the walls and framing of our new house. It …
There are a lot of steps in building new construction homes. The beginning of a big project like building a new custom home can be somewhat daunting when thinking through all of the things that need to be done. Additionally, the steps in new home construction need to be done in a specific order. In …
The framing stage in new home construction is a very exciting portion of the building project. It is when the basic structure of the walls is formed. You can begin to see the layout of the home physically taking shape and the new home beginning to form. In this article, I will cover specifically what …
Being that we just completed the concrete slab foundation for our new construction home, I thought it would be a great time to tackle the question of how long it takes for concrete to set. There are a few specific details concerning the curing process for this particular project that come into play when answering …
Since we are building a new, custom home this year, I thought it would be a great time to share the bids we have received for custom kitchen cabinets. I know that when I was personally researching and building a budget for our home build, it would have been so helpful to have more examples …
