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Manufacturers of residential safes — companies like Liberty Safe, Sentry Group, Allied Safe and Vault and Brown Safe Manufacturing — report an increase in sales to customers like the Danbury engineer. “Well, this is a man chest for my man cave. His $2,700 safe, which was installed in March, was a custom job: it has a high-gloss, hunter green exterior finish, brass hardware and a fawn-colored velour interior. 2-cubic-foot safe to lock up his seven shotguns, some of which are family heirlooms. , is feeling more secure now that he has an 875-pound safe bolted to the floor of his den. “It was kind of like ordering a new car,” he said. ” said the man, who insisted on anonymity for fear of tipping off thieves. THE engineer in Danbury, Conn....

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Laura Orfield-Skrivseth, co-owner and designer/project manager with Orfield Design & Construction Inc. ’S 2010 Master Design Awards in the kitchen and bath categories largely agree educating clients about what works and what doesn’t work is one of the many challenges facing remodelers. , particularly relied on her team’s ability to compromise in their project that won Silver in the 2010 Master Design Awards’ Kitchens Below $50,000 category. Another challenge of homeowners’ I-want-what-I-want attitudes is they expect to stay in their homes indefinitely and seem less attuned to the impact of alterations on resale values, a contradiction to the return-on-investment remodeling theory....

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