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Every year our very own project manager Curtis Peterson gets to work carving elaborate pumpkins. These aren’t your regular run-of-the-mill triangle eyed, jagged toothy grin, looks like my 8 year old carve it. These pumpkin are true works of art. Take a look. Each pumpkin is hand carved taking about 3-4 hours to create. Curt …

This past weekend Curt Gelotte headed out to a meeting with a potential client. He visited a piece of property with a home on it that has been abandoned for the past 15 years. The property is beautiful, but it looks like the house will not be salvageable. IT does however have some amazing pieces …

Happy Friday everyone! We have are members of the Houzz.com community. On this community we receive comments and questions from fabric to paint colors. We thought we would take our five most popular projects on Houzz and make a fun inf graphic broken them down by the paint color! These are gorgeous colors that come …

Everybody clear your schedules from 2-3 on Monday afternoon and tune your radio dials to 1150 AM KKNW. Curt Gelotte has been invited to be a guest on the Monday afternoon show “Head of the House.” Curt will be joining Alternative Talk’s Newest Star – Louis Howard. Head of the House Mondays from 2-3:00 pm. …

For all you designers out there – interior, architectural, graphic, engineeering, structural, and the like, there is a new social media site that you have to check out. It’s called About.Me This is an awesome site that compiles all of your networking sites into one easy place. You can showcase your Website, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, …

The website Houzz is an online magazine of sorts with the largest collection of interior design and decorating ideas on the Internet, including kitchens and bathrooms. Users browse over 500000 inspiring photos and 90000 “idea books.” Today we are being featured in the article “How to Work With An Architect.” Check it out here: [houzz=http://www.houzz.com/ideabooks/3182504/list/How-to-Work-With-an-Architect w=300] …

I know that normally we do Friday Fun here on the Gelotte Hommas blog, but today is different. Today we are doing Friday NOT so fun. In fact, today we are talking about something down right horrific! I understand that after reading this post, many of you may “unsubscribe” to our blog posts on the …

From start to finish there are quite a lot of details that go into the design, and then build out processes of residential architecture. This can take anywhere from 6 months to 3 years depending on the size and complexity of the project. Whether remodeling your guest bathroom, or designing a 35,000 sq. ft home …

Today is the Seattle Foundation’s Give Big campaign. The event helps more than 1,400 local nonprofits raise money and awareness through online donations. “The idea is to create a sense of excitement around one day in which the whole community comes together to support the nonprofits,” said foundation spokeswoman Mary Grace Roske. Here at GHA local …

Pinterest is another social networking site that is similar to Houzz in that you post or “pin” images. The difference with Pinterest is that you organize your “pins” on boards instead of in idea books. You can search through all sorts of topics from #architecture to #fashion, #weddings and #pets and everything in between. Once …