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We are installing LED light strip around skylight. Channel is in the drywall, it will be mud and painted.

The led lights inside the channel show up as small dots. not uniform light.

Is there some thing i can do to make it uniform light? diffuser or better led strip?

Any suggestions to make it smooth light appreciated.

Hi, We are planning to do full house concrete ~1550sqft. I am trying to find right color, finish. I see this around an office and trying to figure out how to get that color and finish.

Does it look like regular concrete? (Grey?)

Is there any aggregate mixed for this?

Is it white concrete? or any other color like davis sandstone?

It feels like top-cast 5 wash?

Do folks use top-cast on top of davis sandstone color and other colors? Does it look good?

It has saw cut control joints.

Any help appreciated. In california with sun, lot of concrete look bright and reflective, we are trying to get less reflecting and look the above pictures. If any one has pictures of regular concrete house or davis color sandstone with top-cast 3 or 5 pls do share.

https://preview.redd.it/qgcnbhdjpd8h1.jpg?width=3072&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6110c4d69cf600631e204e1c67fece65e5538d84

Hi, We are planning to do full house concrete ~1550sqft. I am trying to find right color, finish. I see this around an office and trying to figure out how to get that color and finish.

Does it look like regular concrete? (Grey?)

Is there any aggregate mixed for this?

Is it white concrete? or any other color like davis sandstone?

It feels like top-cast 5 wash?

Do folks use top-cast on top of davis sandstone color and other colors? Does it look good?

It has saw cut control joints.

Any help appreciated. In california with sun, lot of concrete look bright and reflective, we are trying to get less reflecting and look the above pictures. If any one has pictures of regular concrete house or davis color sandstone with top-cast 3 or 5 pls do share.

We very much like smooth engineered hardwood floors. But many flooring shops keep steering us towards wire brushed. They say smooth is very easy to scratch. We have a 7 year old, who is quite active. We worry if we are risky too much.

1. Any advice from people who use smooth/no-brushed. If it's manageable or no no.

2. Are people mainly only using wire brushed engineered hardwood lately or people do use smooth/no-brushed.

These are the two floorings we like.

https://www.benthamplank.com/lumea-silvercreek

https://www.benthamplank.com/lumea-freya

How would you rate these rift cut white oak cabinets.

These came very different than samples we sent. (I had made previous post with more details how we got these cabinets). We are working with the cabinet maker to change doors & drawer fronts.

NOTE: we asked only horizontal grain. As our kitchen is 10' tall and we wanted to make sure it looks wide and proportional instead of not looking too tall.

I am curious what experienced folks think of look of cabinets like these. (We paid 45k$ for these. Mainly looking for feedback on finished look of cabinet fronts. ).

We are doing full house remodeling and have few 3-way switches which are already hardwired for regular switches, for 3-way to work. Can we bypass them and use this pico wireless remote? do you see any issues if we do that.

I understand wireless remote, has battery and lasts like 7 years or so. We like the look of lutro caseta switches and trying to use them and want smart features for alexa etc.

We are trying to use https://www.lowes.com/pd/Lutron-Caseta-Wireless-Single-Pole-3-Way-White-Smart-LED-Touch-Light-Dimmer-with-Wall-Plate/999948502

I was checking this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECYY5b7CdYQ

Question: Any issue in terms of electrical work if we use pico remote and cap/bypass other wires?

My electrician wasn't sure. He was insisting that it should be wired only. Are they any downstream switchs/outlets if the power is going from this, it will have issues if we bypass.

This is our primary home. We ordered Whole Kitchen with Island, pantry, 3 bathrooms all from a reputed custom cabinet vendor. Order was over 45,000$ and fully paid. We ordered 2 identical samples from the vendor first to verify how it will look, and sent one with order to match it. Sample has front and back, as usual back side has ~ 4" * 8" sticker of the product details.

We received it with all the doors, drawers, dummy panels for sink fronts etc inside-out. Visible/front side backing side facing is used, and inside the cabinets have the proper high quality finish, grain, color etc. Pictures are hard, in reality rift cut white oak facing which is installed inside is very beautiful.

Total order has 54 visible pieces (Doors, drawer fronts, tip-on doors, spice rack, 2 trash bin racks, appliance garage, tip-on doors, bi-fold doors etc) excluding trims/panels/moldings etc. We have mostly drawers ever where.

Few skirts ( 2), end panels(3) for bathrooms vanities are fixed and can't be changed as they are built with cabinet itself.

Vendor is saying they will send proper doors/drawer fronts (Excluding trims, panels, moldings etc, they are saying those are made differently and don't have to match fully with the front) with closely matching the sample. They haven't told anything about installation cost/who will do it etc.

My contractor said his installer cannot do the corrections, he said we need to find high quality finisher.

We have already purchased taj mahal natural stone, engineered hardwood flooring etc matching the ordered we sent. Quite a bit of money.

At this level, is it possible to change all (Total 54 pieces of doors, drawers, spice rack, trash bin, appliance garage, tip-on doors, bi-fold doors etc) the visible fronts, with good quality outcome?

We are very concerned about the quality of the outcome, as we building with high end appliances, lot of natural stone, stone hood, waterfalls etc, any issues with cabinets later will mean lot of rework.

We are worried of alignment issues when we get 54 new pieces, uninstalling, reinstalling in the same holes, concealed hinges holes precision/alignment, size of each piece. Will they match the end panels, trims, panels around the appliances etc.

Any one had experience with such a thing? How did they resolve?

Is this field correctable?

Will the outcome if we correct at house be decent quality?

How much would it cost to correct it? (Bay area, CA)

How does warranties work in this case?

Any recommendation what we should do is appreciated.