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Improve Your Outdoor Look: 4 Ideas for Your Patio or Deck
From BBQing and sharing laughs with friends to making smores and stargazing with family, your patio or deck is an integral part of your home. If designed and built thoughtfully, backyards, decks and patios can be places defined by fun, community…

Curved Stairs: Add Eye-Catching Value To Your Home
Curved Stairs: Add Eye-Catching Value To Your Home
By Mike Wark
If you’re looking to add some unique flavour to your home or deck, adding a set of curved stairs will bring some serious elegance and style to your next home renovation…

LivingStones Church Renovation
Living Stones Church Renovation
LIVING STONES: 8 WEEKS LATER
Over a span of 8 weeks, Homestead has had the incredible opportunity to take on a major church renovation at LivingStones Church in Red Deer. Besides being a great project…

Commercial Renovation - A Yoga Studio
Commercial Renovation - A Yoga Studio
Breathing New Life Into a Yoga Studio
One of my favourite things about commercial renovations is the variety of projects and people that I get to work with on a daily basis. Given the wide scope of work…

Habitat For Humanity: A Volunteer Experience
Habitat For Humanity: A Volunteer Experience
When our Homestead Custom Carpentry team heard about the opportunity to volunteer with Habitat for Humanity Red Deer team, we were thrilled and immediately wanted to get involved. We have always…

A Red Deer Carpenter's Story
A Red Deer Carpenter Story
I remember very clearly when I first began learning carpentry, and started the journey it would take me on in the years to come. I had just graduated from university, was recently married and new to the area, and…