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The home pictured at right is one that I remodeled in 2001. Located in Farmington, this home was gutted out about two-thirds of the way and has race track ceilings, cove ceilings and hardwood floors throughout. The laundryroom is now on the main floor.
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The homeowner here was looking for a more dramatic front to their home. The now have a more enticing entry way along with a more functional main level. The homeowner also requested we add motion sensing lighting.
This home has oak floors with walnut framing, digital heated floors and a main level laundryroom. The homeowners also went with lockers for the whole family in the mud room!
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Since 1986, Mike Bischel has made a career of building things. Now he's trying to build knowledge in a group of students from Minneapolis. For the past four months, Bischel, who owns Bischel Building, has been involved with a group of students from Minnesota Transitions School, a Minneapolis charter school for students in kindergarten through 12th grade. From time to time he meets with students to tour one of his job sites in the area. The goal, he said, is to give the students, most of whom will go directly from school to work, an idea of the jobs available in the construction field. "I show them the possible opportunities, other than the obvious swinging a hammer, and all the different facets that go into producing the house ...in case their interest doesn't lie with the framing and finishing," Bischel said. "When they think of construction they think of a guy swinging the hammer, but there's a
lot of different components." Bischel talks with the students about what it takes to become a building inspector or an electrician. Last week he brought the students around a Farmington home he is remodeling into apartments. He talked with them about all of the thought that goes into successfully renovating a building. The home had been gutted and most of the interior walls were gone and downstairs someone was spraying foam insulation. Bischel talked to students about making the building energy efficient and about planning ahead to get the job done right. The students showed varying degrees of interest. Some were attentive, asking questions and taking notes, while others joked in the back of the group. Bischel got involved with the MTS group through Nicole Crews, a Lakeville resident who works with the school. Bischel finished Crews' basement and she recruited him for the program. The school just got a grant from the city of Minneapolis that will allow 20 MTS students to work on construction sites this summer, and Crews said Bischel was a big part of that. "This is a wonderful opportunity,"she said." If it hadn't been for Mike Bischel I don't know if we would have been able to get it." "He has a great outlook that the kids really buy into. "So far, Bischel is enjoying himself. He grew up around construction. His father is a dentist, but he handled the contracting on his Cannon Falls clinic. Bischel handled the contracting for the construction of his own home. He likes the feeling of seeing a finished product at the end of the day. He's having fun helping his students experience that same feeling. Bischel expects to hire at least some of the students to work this summer. "You can definitely tell they're interested in what they're doing, "Bischel said. "There's nobody that's going to give these kids a chance to pique their curiosity, let them try things out,"he said. "I just want to pique their interest in what one person can do. Give them some self-confidence how they can improve even their own community."
(Nathan Hansen, Farmington Independent, March 13, 2008)
