We've all grown accustomed to generic white garage doors that are common place in new construction in the past few years. Because of this, we met up with Amaury Almaguer at the 2008 Miami Home Design and Remodeling Show to check out his custom painted garage doors. Amaury Almaguer uses car paint since it is intended to be durable in extreme outdoor conditions in all of his garage door designs. Accessories that add detail to each door are made out of recycled materials like aluminum cans. When you look at the decorative touches up close, they look as if they were the real deal.

A typical garage door can be made over for about $2,000 over the course of two days.

If you ever painted before you know that there is an unmistakable odor that oozes out of walls after a new coat of paint. Your intuition probably told you that the smell isn't good for you. Your intuition would be right. Enter Mythic Non-Toxic Paint, a paint designed to contain NO toxins or VOCs for healthier painting. And just because it is non-toxic, does not mean it suffers from usability. With the availability of all common sheen -- flat, semi-gloss, high gloss, that sorta' thing -- you will be free to paint anywhere and on almost anything. Also as you would expect, there are thousands of colors to get your creative juices going.

You won't find these at your local Home Depot (we asked), but there are small local retailers that carry the brand throughout the United States.

Outdoor Misting Systems are a hit and miss for us. Most of the traditional systems spray a water-heavy mist and then has huge, clunky fans pushing the mist around the air. The result is a soggy experience that during humid days, can make the heat seem more unbearable. The Jetstream IJ Series Outdoor Comfort System (the name could use some work) changes that. Instead of obtrusive fans, the Jetstream system uses a high velocity, high pressure system that pushes water out of a ceramic nozzle at 1000psi, then the JetStream's DNA JetPorts take over and direct the cool air to the desired location at high speeds. The result is a 10-20 degree differential. At the show we noticed a comfortable cool breeze, which got cooler and cooler the longer we stood in the location. The Jetports can be rotated an entire 360 degrees so you can change where the cool breeze goes depending on the requirements for that day. Top that off with an energy star rating and the system feels even cooler (pardon the pun).

The average patio can be outfitted with the Jetstream system for about $4,500 USD.

The three-person operation, Nature on The Rocks, is the perfect example of family-run business. The company creates Italian terra cotta pots that are either hung or placed on a select-grade cypress wood stand. The result is a product that looks natural in any place they are shown, even at a crowded show like the 2008 Miami Home Design and Remodeling Show. Each pot is concepted and designed by Yanice, while Guy works his craftmanship.

New homes come standard with carpeted stairs with rarely any character. That does not mean that your stairs need to suffer that fate. Substituting the carpeted steps with hardwood steps automatically changes things. Add a metal as the balusters, like a high-density wire for example, and you begin to get a knock-out contemporary look. This is what we saw from Paolini's Stairs at the Miami Home Design and Remodeling Show and a reason we fell in love with stair re-design.

The Brazilian designer Joao Bianchi is known for using stones in interesting ways. We've all seen Onyx lit countertops, but this was our first time seeing someone taking that concept and making something simple and affordable out of it: a $75 dollar translucent Onyx decorative lamp.

Both modern in design and beautiful in its simplicity, the Joao Bianchi's translucent Onyx Lamp, literally lit up the show.

Check them out at Biarts Decorative Arts.

Want to hang around? Mark Watts's Hanging Chair Plus allows you to do just that. This maple and oak hanging chair can keep up with folks up to 350lbs, enough to carry most of the population. There are many versions of the chair, including an EZ Hang Hammock. The company also has accessories like a foot and head rest, cup holders, magazine holders among others. A typical hanging deluxe chair can run you over $300.

More at the Hanging Chair Plus web site.

The Solaris Weather Proof Love Seat with a soft cover measuring 65 inches in diameter is a sexy piece of outdoor furniture. Gone is the uncomfortable wicker material that plague outdoor furniture and in its place is hand-woven synthetic rattan skin that covers the powder-coated aluminum frame. The upholstery is also weather proof, something you'd hope to find in all outdoor furniture.

The Solaris Love Seat with Soft Cover by Outstanding Furniture's is available in Black, Chocolate, Ivory or Natural, though the cover can only be found in White.