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Using Natural Wood And Stone Accents For Your Home Renovation Project

If your cookie cutter house is starting to bore you, perhaps it's time to add a bit of exotic flare. Asia has always been home to craftsmen and specialists in all manner of arts including stonework and woodwork. The products created in Asia are beautiful and ideal for homes that need a bit of spice and ornate detail.

Stone Accents

Stone is gaining in popularity as a durable and beautiful building material suitable for any number of purposes. A stone relief or carving graces an entry way. The large limestone ornamentation is hand carved with your choice subject or art. Regardless of your color scheme or overall decorating style, a stone relief will add a great deal of visual stimulation not only to an entry way, but to a garden or patio as well.

Stone work is also beautiful around patios, swimming pools and indoors in kitchens or baths. Why use basic stone options when exotic stone is available? Stone from Southeast Asia is harvested from volcanic islands and used in many of the most upscale tropical resorts in the world.

It makes sense that Asian stone should help you create your own sense of beauty and sanctuary in your home or garden. Stepping out into your backyard for a swim goes from basic to extraordinary with poolside stone work. Add a bit of creative flavor to your kitchen or bathroom with countertops created from large slabs of polished marble or stone.

Wide Plank Flooring

Wide plank floors are one of the most distinguishable custom features in a home. A wide plank floor is breathtaking upon entry and adds an infinite amount of style and elegance to any home. Not only is the floor attractive, but wide plank flooring from tropical ferns and other trees are durable and very long lasting.

The wide plank flooring created in Asia is done with the same timeless attention to detail and craftsmanship that has thrived in the region for centuries. Despite modern kilns and state-of-the-art saws, the planks maintain an integrity that is truly timeless.

Custom Wood Work

Another extremely popular choice for exotic flavor is custom wood work. Custom moldings and hand carved doors reveal more than the work of a collection of hand tools. Selecting carved doors for you home invites visitors into a house sure to be full of other wonderful treasures and accents.

You won't disappoint them upon entry with ornate molding on the wall or balconies. A true decorator knows that only the details complete a decorating scheme, so the custom wood work that began upon entry will continue throughout your home in all nooks and crannies.

Regardless of what and how many Asian accents you chose to use in your home, the detail and beauty of the orient will never go unnoticed and will decorate your house with the kind of style most only dream about.

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Alternative source for Andersen/Andersen-compatible window hardware?

I'd like to replace the boring white sash locks and patio door French glider hardware with something more interesting. (Trying to decide between ''white'',''off white'', and ''linen'' was surely a devastatingly difficult choice for our home's previous owners.) These are nice double-hung windows, but Andersen's a la carte system is a wallet-killer. The oil-rubbed sash locks are almost $70 a piece, and a patio door latch is $260, online for Andersen hardware.

The catch is, the ''generic ''sash locks I've found are designed for flat adjacent sash surfaces. The Andersens have the keeper mounted to a beveled piece of wood, so the wood surface forms about a 135 degree angle to the adjacent sash top.

Surely I'm not the first to run into this issue. Thanks to anyone who can help, as $1500+ for a houseful of window hardware is a bit steep!

I hate to tell you this and I HOPE I am wrong. But Anderson makes their own locks (or has them made) for their doors and windows. I have never found an alternate source. I have looked.

I will be checking your question's answers to see if someone else has found an alternate source. I hope they have.

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