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Why Choosing a RenoMark Renovator is a Smart Decision for Your Home Project
Embarking on a home renovation journey can be both exciting and daunting. Whether you're envisioning a...
When Should I Start to Plan a Renovation?
When should I start to plan for a renovation and how long does the process take are great questions to ask!...
Exciting News!
After 25 incredible years of artfully designing and building beautiful spaces, and establishing a strong...
The Main Floor Makeover – Love Your Home Again!
The main floor is most likely the reason you bought your house in the first place. Sure, you checked the...
Island Time
Kitchen Islands, a huge piece in a Kitchen Renovation A kitchen island is often the focal piece in the most...
Do Not Be Afraid to Renovate with a Design-Build Firm!
A home renovation can be a very large investment for a homeowner, maybe even one of the most expensive. This...
How to Incorporate Art and Heirloom Pieces into a Renovation
Incorporating heirloom pieces into a renovation can add a unique, personal touch while preserving family...
4 Ways to Enhance your Fireplace
It’s All About the Mantel A fireplace mantel serves as the focal point of a fireplace, enhancing both its...
Design Trends 2025
Pattern Drenching Pattern drenching can transform a small space into an adventurous and memorable design...
Renovating with your Pets: How to manage the stress with your furry friends
Renovations are very hard on your family. Your routine can be disrupted, and you may not have access to part...
2024 RenoTour Parade of Homes: Explore these fabulous renovations
ARTium Design Build was thrilled to take part in the 10th annual RenoTour. We have been showcasing our...
Joys of a Home Bar
by Mallory Ivall, Interior Designer with ARTium Design Build Inc. & Just Basements Published by Ottawa...
Our Homes Magazine – ARTium Design Build Inc.
We had the pleasure of being featured in this beautiful Ottawa magazine. Thank you Our Homes Magazine Ottawa.
Leaving a Legacy
As we celebrate our 25 Years of business, we wanted to do something for our customers to represent our...
17 wall treatments to add personality, layers and texture to your home
by All Things Home, Anita Murray Great article by a wonderful group of Ottawa Designers, each featuring some...
Humidity
It’s what makes your floors creak in the winter and makes doors and windows stick in the summer. It makes...
The Power of Powder Rooms; Yes, they are Design Worthy!
Often powder rooms don’t get the credit they deserve, they are often overlooked because of their size, but...
West Carleton Online shares our 25 Year Story!
Link: https://westcarletononline.com/carp-roads-artium-design-build-celebrates-25-years/
Design Trends 2024
Our Design Team at ARTium Design Build Inc & Just Basements like to kick off the year by predicting the...
25 Years of Design Build Renovations
I believe it is always good to look towards the future. However, there are times in our lives that we tend...
What is Your Design Style?
Everyone’s tastes are different, especially when it comes to interior design. There’s a design style for...
RenoTour Feature in All Things Home
ARTium Design Build Inc. is thrilled to be taking place in the 9th Annual Greater Ottawa Home Builders Reno...
Dreaming of a new ensuite
Not sure where to start...let ARTium Design Build guide you through the process.Your ensuite should be your...
Modern Living: A Second Home within a Home
Thank you Ottawa Citizen and Laura for this feature on a wonderful project our team designed and built. This...
How to keep your renovation from going off the rails
Great article featuring our own Norm Lecuyer and Bryan Baeumler written by Anita Murray and...
Design Trends 2023 by ARTium Design Build & Just Basements
1. More is More? We have seen a lot of simplicity in design in the past year, however 2023 is the year of...
A Whole Home Renovation: What you Need to Know
If you are thinking of renovating part or all of your home, this article by our team and All Things Home, is...
How Interior Designers can add value to your Renovation
Definition of interior design : the art or practice of planning and supervising the design and execution of...
Renovation time: Plan ahead and get a designer to help
Written by Louise Rachlis, The Ottawa Citizen, October 22, 2022 Renovation and design trends in the...
Stuck Between Traditional and Modern Design Styles?
Transitional Design May Be What You’re Looking For. While exploring which design style is right for you, you...
Renovation Trends in Ottawa
Now that summer is around the corner, homeowners across the great City of Ottawa are gathering ideas to...
How renovating your home can help with aging-in-place
As the population ages, many homeowners are obligated to move out of their homes to live somewhere with the...
Kitchen reno’s surge in popularity as people spend more time at home
Louise Rachlis The Ottawa Citizen 'When you enjoy your kitchen space, you use it more'
Planning a Renovation with Kids at home? How to get them involved in the fun!
Renovations can be exciting and stressful for all parties involved, especially kids. Although exciting,...
Hot off the Press!
Our Homes Ottawa just featured Just Basements (our basement division) in the Spring 2022 Issue. Love Your...
Design Trends for 2022 by ARTium Design Build & Just Basements
Well here we are again! Another hopeful year ahead of us, and though 2022 is starting off on a familiar...
We love being featured on Houzz!
Best of the Week: 32 Brilliant Built-in Pantries Create a custom corner in your kitchen for the perfect...
Customization vs Renovation – How to avoid becoming a fainting goat
The difference between doing a home renovation or buying a new home from a builder. Buying a new home from a...
Our Homes Magazine – Feeling Zen
GOHBA Awards Finalists
Our team is thrilled to have a few project finalists in this years Greater Ottawa Home Builders Design Awards!
Walk on the Inside
By Anita Murray, Ottawa Renovates Magazine If you plan to renovate, one of the first things you need to do...
NKBA Award Winner – ARTium Design Build
Timeless for the Two was the theme for this award winning ensuite. Our wonderful homeowners wanted a place...
Virtual Reno Tour 2021
Presented by the Greater Ottawa Home Builders’ Association (GOHBA), the RenoMark® Reno Tour gives consumers...
NKBA Award Winner
Thrilled to take a second place with this beautiful laundry room
Celebrating our Champagne Birthday!
ARTium Design Build and Just Basements are excited to celebrate twenty-two years on February 22. We are...
Working from home with the kiddos? Check out some of our team’s fun ideas on keeping our children e
Unlike past years and trying only to survive March Break, we are now trying to get work done from home with...
From Homebase to Workspace: Ideas for creating a home office that works for you
Whether you are an entrepreneur, employee or the acting CEO of your household a dedicated space within your...
Kiss Me I’m Irish! (or…How To Ruin A Perfectly Good Renovation)
So, your thinking about doing a wee renovation? Well here’s hoping the Luck of the Irish is with you....
Surviving your renovation…written by a freshly experienced real life renovation client.
Warning! This is not to be taken lightly; renovations are tough on the family, stressful and sometimes...
Do You Love The Heart Of Your Home
In some ways your home is not that different than your body, an interconnected series of systems working...
Design Trends for 2020
1. Warm earth tones are back! Now before you yell “but I just painted everything grey!” let us explain… We...
You, Light Up Our Life!
Partner Profile with Multi Luminaire Ottawa and ARTium Design Build & Just Basements The word that comes...
ARTium Design Build and Just Basements — Partner Profile with Saltillo Tile & Stone
Tile and Stone that Inspires Starting as a small terracotta importer, Saltillo Tile & Stone has grown...
Welcome to the Roaring 20’s!
Gatsby would be proud of the beautiful spaces Just Basements and Artium Design Build (JBA) has created over...
ARTium Design Build & Just Basements – Partner Profile with Logs End
Rolling In The Deep Harvested from the dark cold depths of the Ottawa River comes, believe it or not, your...
Thinking of Renovating…but have some questions, they might be answered here!
Here are a few questions that our Production Manager, Nick Ramsay, gets asked all the time. Q: Should...
Artium’s 2nd Annual Design Recap – 2018 Edition
We have had another year of designing beautiful spaces for wonderful clients and we love looking back on the...
The Art of Decorating after a Renovation
You made it through your renovation. Congratulations! Now it's time to step into your space and start to...
ARTium Design Build & Just Basements – Partner Profile
Sound Advice Ottawa’s Signature Audio Video shares some sound advice on important details when considering a...
ARTium Design Build – Partner Profile
Counter Intelligence Ottawa's Urban Quarry Sheds Some Light on Custom Countertops ARTium Design Build and...
Artium’s Design Recap 2017
Looking back on 2017, we were lucky enough to have been a part of creating some amazing spaces. As we work...
Pets and Renovating
Renovations are very hard on your family. Your routine can be disrupted, and you may not have access to part...
October is Renovation Month!
The Canadian Home Builders Association has dedicated one whole month to Renovations, that is a big deal and...
What’s In A Name, or Why ARTium?
When you've been in business as long as we have and you work hard, and you're lucky; you may have the...
The ART Of Renovating Your Kitchen
A kitchen renovation is a big undertaking; however the transformation can be life changing for you and...
Everything We Needed to Know to be a Great Design-Build Company; We Learned in Kindergarten
Share - It's important that we all own this renovation project. So we need to share our thoughts and...
When is a good time to renovate?
Great question and yet a tricky one to answer. To be honest, there is probably no good time to renovate,...
The Art of Renovation
What is renovation? Modernization, restoration, refurbishment, revamping, rehabilitation, repair,...
Exciting News!! We are now ARTIUM Design Build!
Introducing ARTium Design Build: The ART of Renovation For years you have known HOME Inc. and our downstairs...
March Break is here! Try having no Kitchen
It’s that time of year; the kids are home for a whole week…try surviving March break with no kitchen! Ahhh!...
Guide To A Minimalist Interior
Achieving a minimalistic look and feel to your home means following a few guidelines that will have your...
5 Amazing Kitchen Technology Trends
If you’re like me, I need to have…. or at least know about all the newest kitchen technology that hits the...
2016 Top Trends In Bathroom Design
If you ‘ve been having a tough time getting your teenage daughters out of the bathroom, the new design...
Renovating Your Home To Achieve An Open Concept Space
Have you ever danced like no one was watching? No? Okay, neither have we …… but having an open concept...
Hardwood Flooring 101
It goes without saying that a beautiful wood floor gives a room character. You can choose to go with...
5 Ways To Bring Nature Into Your Home
Are you a tree hugger? How about an extreme outdoor adventurer? Maybe, like many of us, you recognize that...
Turn Your Basement into an Inspirational Work Environment
Remember the old adage “If you love what you do, you’ll never have to work a day in your life”? Well,...
4 Tips For Maintaining Your Sanity During A Renovation
For those of you who have already experienced a renovation of any kind, you know that your new kitchen or...
Summer; What Summer
The lovely weather this week got me to thinking about winter....go figure. I am sure you were cursing the...
Will It Go Out Of Style?
“Will it go out of style”, one of our renovation customers asked me today regarding a renovation project she...
Purchasing a Home Renovation?
Bang your head against a wall. Repeat 3 – 5 times. Then tell your friends and neighbours how badly it went....
Purchasing a Home Renovation Part 2 – ROI
We love our homes, that is why we buy them….well that, and it rains sometimes. But, we purchase our homes...
Wondering What’s Possible in Your Space?
Stop wondering — let’s plan your space. We are here to guide you.
















































































