Home Builder Developer - Interior Renovation and Design

Ask any interior designer, and theyll tell you its easy to spend $4,000 on a single piece of furniture. Designer Beth Mattei has $4,000 to furnish and design an entire two-bedroom home, and one that doesnt even belong to her.

This Napa woman recently teamed up with a nonprofit called Designed from the Heart. Matteis task is to fully furnish one of 76 townhomes on a former naval base in the Long Beach area for a homeless female veteran and her children to live in. The project is called the Blue Butterfly Village, named after a blue butterfly preserve nearby.

Its such a privilege to be able to work directly with these female vets, she said.

Mattei admitted that when she first considered joining the project, I was kind of afraid to take on such a challenge.

But then she became determined. Somehow this will work out. Im sure it will. Thats the fun part, to see how things get connected, she said.

After hearing about the project from her sister-in-law, Mattei decided to lend a hand. Its a good fit for her skills, she said. For a number of years, she worked as an interior designer, at one point working for Thomas Bartlett.

With just $4,000, she needs to outfit the whole townhouse from top to bottom, she said.

That includes all furniture, furnishings, kitchen, bath and other daily living items for a two bedroom home.

The budget wont go very far at all, she said. That means the designers have to use their resources such as asking for donations, hunting for bargains and scouting out sources.

So far, weve been able to find a few things, but, its very challenging.

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Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2014

NORTH AUGUSTA, S.C. (WRDW) -- Mark Rogers and his family watched his home burn down Monday morning. Fire investigators say it was due to old wiring and now a neighbor who watched it all happen is concerned for her and her family's safety as well.

Stay-at-home-Mom Victoria Braddock watched as the Rogers' family watched their home and new car they bought the day before, deteriorate. Braddock says she's concerned now because her family had trouble in the past with electricity.

"We've also had some light switches that were not working because of the wiring, once again it wasn't a big deal to us because we had multiple switches so we could just use another one," said Braddock.

Now, everything to do with electricity has become a big deal to the Braddock's. Electrician Ray Johnson says a flame can spark with the misuse of any circuits, but especially in homes built in the 1950s all the way up to the 1970s.

"If you overload a circuit it's a fire hazard if you have drop cords don't use multiple drop cords just one drop cord," said Johnson

Johnson adds overloading a circuit is easier to do in an older home because it likely doesn't have regulators. In newer homes regulators help maintain the circuit breaker so they don't overheat.

"Yea that doesn't seem like a major problem but as a result it could be," said Braddock.

Braddock adds they plan to contact their landlord about an inspection to make sure everything is up to date. It's a lesson she wants her family to learn so that what happens across the street doesn't happen to them.

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Lottie and Robert Augustine pose for a portrait on Dec. 17 at their new home in Aztec. (Jon Austria The Daily Times)

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AZTEC Members of a local family who lost their home in March are celebrating Christmas in a new home, thanks to people who donated more than $7,000 to help them in their time of need.

on March 30, winds blew the roof off Lottie Augustine's three-bedroom, single-wide trailer near County Road 6893 in Waterflow.

The trailer was damaged beyond repair, with electrical wiring and insulation exposed, and the San Juan County Fire Department deemed it unhabitable. It was demolished in April.

The family was left homeless but after receiving help from the community, its members are now living a two-bedroom, single-wide trailer in Aztec.

"It's a beautiful trailer, it's a beautiful home," Augustine said while glancing at her living room.

After seeing the damage, Augustine said she wondered where her husband, Robert, and their son, daughter-in-law and three grandchildren would live.

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