Bigfoot Home Solutions

12/31/2025

Custom Railing. This was fun because I got to dabble a bit back into my restoration days. It only takes some imagination and experience to see what lies beneath.
I’ve made creations, and gifts for customers, from reclaimed, old lumber from their homes in the past, and have gotten an eye for seeing something beautiful that someone covered up with paint, or threw in a corner somewhere.

Rust doesn’t scare me either, I made a living out of restoring one of a kind items dating back many, many decades in our worlds history, for many years in the restoration and plating industry. So, fixing up the home’s original railing that was laying around was a breeze; plus a little flare of my own.

It had been off so long that the house had settled enough that it didn’t fit the opening any longer, just barely (3/8”), but enough it can’t be forced and ruin the Sheetrock. So my awesome neighbor buddy, Steve, helped me out and we trimmed it to length, and re-welded the tabs. From there, I cleaned it up real well and it got a fresh coat of paint to match the fireplace I’d just finished for the same customer.

Now, for the icing on the cake.

I could see this original railing cap was a piece of real nice, tight grained, clear fir….that someone painted…(blasphemy!!!!!! Grrrr 😆)

It had a good size chunk chipped off at some point but was recoverable.

So I milled it down with the table saw evenly on both sides by just a hair to remove that, then proceeded to uncover the gorgeous wood underneath.

For my own special touch for this customer, I turned this original 2x4 into a routed, burned, and stained rail cap to top off this now restored railing.

What a difference a little imagination makes with these pieces original to this 1980 built home.

It’s a small thing in the grand scheme of things, but I enjoyed being able to take this old thing and make it new again, and with a little something extra to add a little flare that it didn’t have before.

Fun little project!

12/30/2025

Custom fireplace build, just in time for Christmas! Big upgrade!

12/06/2025

Seasons Greetings to All!

It’s that time of year again, and as focus shifts to the holidays, and most importantly, time with family, we would like to announce that here at Bigfoot Home Solutions, we will be closed from December 19th through January 3rd.

We have been proud to serve you, and your family throughout the year; and it is now time for us to turn our attention to our own, to spend time and celebrate this holiday season.

Between these dates, I will still be available by phone or email, and it’s an excellent time to have us bid your project, as usually my time can be limited when we’re going full bore. If you have an emergency, fret not, you can still call or text me and we’ll help you out.

However, we do have work scheduled right up until the December 19th, and are now booking jobs for just after New Years. So, if there’s something you’d like done, now is a good time to inquire and get on the schedule for 2026.
Remember, no job is too small either! We don’t just do the big ones!

This has been an incredible year for our company, and we have grown significantly in 2025. We have had the pleasure of doing a tremendous amount of fun and creative projects this past year, have gained many new clients, and have enjoyed the ongoing relationships we have with so many of our loyal, repeat customers; many of whom have been with us from the very beginning.

We have also been fortunate to have made big strides and upgrades to our infrastructure, inventory, capabilities, and offerings; and we look forward to providing all of our wonderful customers with the benefits of this growth.

As we take the time to now slow down, catch up on administrative work, and recuperate from the busy season, we want to express our heartfelt gratitude to all of you.

Without you all, we would not be here; having the opportunity to do what we love and helping make your visions become reality.

Best Wishes and A Very Merry Christmas Season!

-Matt & Melissa
Bigfoot Home Solutions

10/22/2025

Done and Ready for Paint! Many phases on this job, will post a storyline later on once it’s been painted.

10/12/2025

Before and after of full second story deck rebuild. Big upgrades on this one; in construction, choice of materials and code compliance. I really enjoyed building this one, it was a lot of fun and everyone is very happy with the outcome.
PS…I love building decks, regardless of size or complexity. Call us to see what we can do for your outdoor living space!

08/16/2025

Job from a few weeks ago, just now had time to share. Full Gut and Rebuild of two upstairs bedrooms, one closet ceiling, one patch above chandelier, repainted and cleaned up. The trick was, it had to look like it never had work done whatsoever and identical to before. 100 percent invisible.
Bu**er of a job. Attic insulation had been removed, heat wave occurred, upstairs running over 100 degrees most days, with one in particular exceeding 120 degrees. Next day was predicted to be even hotter, so I opted to take that one off altogether. The rest I worked 7-1 then would go back and work 7 to midnight to stay out of the hottest part of the day. Other than the heat though, fun job, turned out great!

06/10/2025

For this particular job, we did a complete remodel of the customer’s laundry room, installation of new lighting in multiple rooms, cancellation, and making safe, existing old wiring that had been left exposed, and some plumbing modifications and upgrades.

Upon our arrival, there were some pretty big holes in the walls from previous work having been performed over the years. This lovely customer hired me, not only to facilitate the re-plumbing of some very poorly done work (to the point that the valves had been installed in a way that you couldn’t even actually close them due to how closely they had been installed to the wall), as well as the installation of new lighting.
On her behalf, we designed a new shutoff system that would be easy to manipulate, and easy for her to reach; since that piping is located behind the hot water heater.
Next, I got her fixed up with my trusty plumbers and electricians to install all of that.

Big shout out to Protocol Plumbing and Dickson Electric for a job well done! They were both prompt, CLEAN!!!!, and thorough, and performed all work quickly and safely. Easy to communicate with and…..NOT MESSY….(Have we figured out yet that’s a thing for us lol)

Once they were finished, I proceeded to close her drywall myself, and texture everything to blend it in. Also helped with some other oddball tasks like fixing stuck doors and things of that nature.

I’ve always taken a lot of pride in being able to patch/repair drywall in a way that it’s not possible to tell there was ever a ding, dent, hole, or damage of any kind. And, in multiple locations in this condo I went and did just that. The project turned out great on all fronts.

Side note, this customer needed a high level of diligence regarding dust capture, due to the general nature of the building being confined as well as some personal sensitivity to it, so we took extra precautions to ensure that all dust was contained during cutting and sanding, as well as extra detailed clean up at the end of every work day, which is something we always do anyway.
No dirty job sites, not even overnight. That’s our policy!

This customer was great to work with, and we hope you enjoy all the new fixtures, your new dishwasher and your brand new, finished laundry room!

04/29/2025

04/10/2025

Coming along!

03/23/2025

This is the story of a garage; our current project. I’ve found myself winding up with kind of a niche where I work on, and have become a bit of enthusiast about, older buildings. Particularly the 1940’s era homes and outbuildings in Everett. All of them have their own stories, and memories, and are unique in their own way. For one, the lumber in them is of an incredible quality; far superior to what is available these days. Unfortunately, some of these buildings do become neglected in certain circumstances and wind up needing some serious attention. This particular garage is one of them. The primary issue is that the original building had a flat roof addition built onto it at some point, and the roof transition was very poorly done. This caused significant leakage and because it wasn’t used for many years, the progressive damage went unnoticed for a long time. Well, all that’s about to change.

There’s a long list of tasks needed for this structure, but so far I’ve done a full cleanout of debris, rodents and everything else that got into it, and we were in progress of repairing the roof, and had demolished the chimney (where all the rodents were getting in), when we discovered even more, substantial rot and insect damage.
So, the line up for this building will be a full removal of the roof structure and framing, the replacement of the top plates to the walls (the studs themselves are thankfully in good shape still, but the top plates rotted out due to roof leaks), the replacement of the roof framing with modern trusses, sheathing, Ice and Water Shield, and custom metal roofing. New doors and windows on the docket as well. I designed an offset roof pitch for maximum clearance in the main garage, and a modern look. I’m moving right along with the build and everything is going great!
More to come as we wrap up this portion of the project!

02/21/2025

Another Epoxy Garage Floor Coating.

Full treatment on this:

-Degrease/Power Wash (x2)
-Clean Water Rinse (x2)
-Full Dry
-Acid Etch (x2)
-Concrete Bonding Primer
-(x2) Coats of Kilz Epoxy Concrete Coating w/ Anti Skid Texture

Turned out pretty nice!

We always like to follow up on these and it’s holding up well! I do always forwarn customers that this particular type of product, although tough, is still a coating, rather than a conversion, so it is subject to wear, especially warm/hot tire peel off. That being said, doing all the steps properly is key, and waiting for a full cure is a must for best results.
You cannot overdo it on cleaning and prep.
The only thing the customer opted out of was the filling of cracks, recognizing it is, after all, a garage and is used, they didn’t have a desire to make it artwork.

These are fun to do, what a difference! 😀