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San Francisco Custom Home Builder Makes it Personal

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San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) June 15, 2012

A popular home remodeling trend currently being seen across the US is home customization. Home customizing moves beyond home remodeling and replacing outdated fixtures. Customizing requires working with an architect or designer to design unique changes to fit a homeowners personality reflected in the home.

Owner of Bischoff Design Build, Zac Bischoff is taking notice, Designers come out with new trends every year, what they consider to be in style. It is best for homeowners to select what fulfills their individual needs and desires, and outlives current design trends, making their home personal.

Bischoff Design recently completed a custom home remodel for a couple in Berkeley Hills. We were contacted by some homeowners after we completed remodeling their sons house. They had recently purchased a home in Berkeley Hills and wanted renovation work done along with room additions, said Zac.

Bischoff worked with the couple to design and draft tailor-made remodeling plans. He then gutted the entire house and built a second story addition for two offices and a half bath. Pine was used throughout the entire house to deliver a natural feel. Bischoffs team then created and applied a stain that brought the wood to life. The same pine was used to build bookcases that were installed throughout the home as well as custom closets built for the master bedroom. Bischoff helped the homeowners achieve a personal style for their remodel, which is now reflected in every room of the house including the modern stairways and uniquely designed entrances.

Additional distinct features added to the home could be found in the kitchen. Bischoff designed new custom kitchen cabinets and installed a modern, bright red backsplash. The master bathroom was remodeled and updated using modern tile and block glass to bring in light, along with red and white tiles for the flooring. The clients incorporated hand made tiles from their grandchildren in some areas of the bathrooms for a unique and personal touch, said Zac.

The living room was also remodeled and panoramic windows were added to enhance the view and let in natural light. The basement was retrofitted, for a studio apartment with a full bath and plenty of living space. We are very proud of our work on this project and the clients are very happy with their newly updated and uniquely personal designs, said Zac.

Zac Bischoff has worked for 18 years in the building industry and studied architecture at UC Berkeley, giving him the ability to design and draft plans for his projects. Bischoff Design Build specializes in foundation work, retrofitting, seismic remodeling, building additions and new construction. He utilizes sustainable building practices and does no outsourcing.

To learn more about this company, please call (925) 348-1073, or to see their work visit http://www.bischoffdesignbuild.com or you can take a look at their profile on BuildZoom.

9/11 Memorial Nameplates Utilize Custom Bronze Extrusions

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Kearny, NJ (PRWEB) June 14, 2012

When the 9/11 Memorial emerged as a revitalizing symbol in Lower Manhattan last fall, one of the centerpieces of this noteworthy addition to American public architecture featured custom extrusions from MAC Metals. Two reflecting pools located on the footprints of the twin towers, boasting the countrys largest man-made waterfalls, are ringed with 152 solid bronze nameplates bearing the names of the victims. These backlit displays feature brass/bronze cutouts provided by MAC Metals.

All 2,998 names — those who died in New York, Washington, D.C. and Pennsylvania, as well as the 1993 World Trade Center bombing — were stencil-cut into the 5-by-10 foot panels by Service Metal Fabricating of Rockaway, N.J. The process created hollow areas in the letters A, B, D, O, P, Q and R, which were filled with wafers cut and machined from a custom MAC Metals extrusion. MAC delivered 3,500 pounds of alloy C37000 free-cutting, leaded Muntz Metal in eight-foot bars for the project.

Bronze extrusions were the most economical way to complete this portion of the project, said Jim Moretti, owner of Service Metal Fabricating. It saved time and eliminated the machining costs of cutting each insert by other means. Even though each of the14 profiles required separate extrusion dies, it was still the most economical method.

The unique arrangement of the names on the panels — by the location of the victims on the day of the attacks — will help unite associated friends and families and provide what architect Michael Arad calls a meaningful adjacency. Heating and cooling systems integrated within the display will make sure visitors can always make a tactile connection, whether its running their finger across a loved ones name or making a rubbing. At night, light shining through the panels will further illuminate each name.

Arad and landscape architect Peter Walker conceived of the memorial design. Photos of the site and panels, as well as an interactive name finder, are located at: http://www.911memorial.org/names-memorial.

Service Metal Fabricating, located in Rockaway, N.J., is a family-owned machine shop known for component manufacturing, turnkey equipment and system. Co-owners Jim and Joe Moretti are third-generation engineering and manufacturing vendors. http://www.servicemetal.com/

Mac Metals is a fully integrated brass mills located in Kearny, NJ specializing in the production of architectural extrusions with casting, extrusion and fabrication facilities under one roof. Mac serves design/build contractors in commercial, public and residential structures as well as hardware, lighting, memorialization, elevator, handrail/stairs OEMs and fabricators. Visit the web site at http://www.macmetals.com or call 800.631.9510.