When home designer and builder Marnie Oursler talks with clients about building their dream homes along the Delaware coast, their No. 1 request is having bright spaces with lots of natural light. But at this…
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It’s the season for family gatherings, getting cozy in front of fires and baking cookies. Hygge only happens, though, when a home is prepared for the cold, ice and snow and the havoc they can…
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On Thursday, September 19, 2019, Marnie Oursler was honored as the keynote speaker at East Carolina University’s 2019 Incredible ECU Women Luncheon—an event hosted every three years by the university’s Women’s Roundtable, celebrating notable alumnae…
Read MoreMarnie shares her tips on building a home for future rental income as well as memorable vacations.
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Marnie was featured in the July 2019 issue of Designers Today offering tips and best practices for designing in coastal/island climates.
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Custom home builder, DIY Network/HGTV host discusses her career in the series called “She Made It” Bethany Beach, Delaware (July 23, 2019) --- Marnie Custom Homes recently announced that its President and CEO Marnie Oursler…
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The luxury home builder and TV show host lives part time in Bethany. Here’s what she totes with her.
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They call it “The Big Easy” and it’s built for effortless entertaining. After many summers visiting friends with vacation homes on the Delaware shore, Anna and Blair Fernau bought a cottage of their own in…
Read MoreRenting your vacation home? Marnie shares her tips on how to make your vacation home more appealing to renters and to increase your piece of mind while renters are in residence.
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Marnie’s renovation of a 1960’s fixer-upper in North Bethany on Big Beach Builds is featured in the Washingtonian.
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Earlier this month, the Home Builders Association of Delaware hosted its 27th Annual Regal Awards ceremony, recognizing excellence and celebrating outstanding achievements in Delaware home building. Marnie Custom Homes—a woman-owned building company that specializes in…
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Living and dining are essential actions that occur in every residence. But having rooms named after and devoted, respectively, to each has become passe nowadays for many homeowners. Instead of maintaining formal rooms that conform…
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Custom homes have a unique place in the world of new construction, offering an opportunity for experimentation with new eco-friendly materials and design trends that could eventually become common in all newly built homes. At…
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While timeless design is always in, two experts - Designer and Builder Marnie Oursler, CEO of Marnie Custom Homes and host of DIY Networks’s Big Beach Builds, and Washington, DC Designer Annie Elliott, owner of…
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In the 10 years that Wendy Arriz has been a real estate agent in New York City, she’s seen some of the best, selling ultraluxe new-construction homes, as well as lower-priced properties. But she’s also…
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Whether you’re dreaming of renovating a current home, building anew, or are simply dreaming, chances are you’ve spent more than a few afternoons glued to a design-focused reality show. And if your dreams involve bliss…
Read MoreClients are sometimes surprised when home builder and designer Marnie Oursler starts talking about bedroom doors. They expect to discuss things like windows, wall colors and where a built-in bookcase might fit best. But many…
Read MoreShe’s still just as busy, only now she’s juggling her own business, Marnie Custom Homes, and a TV show on the DIY Network, “Big Beach Builds.” “My days are kinda crazy,” she says. “If we’re…
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Marnie attended a Home & Design reception at Poggenpohl in Georgetown. Marnie was featured in an issue of Home & Design magazine and attended the event to meet other design industry professionals also highlighted, as…
Read MoreDIY Network star and custom builder Marnie Oursler brings functionality and coastal cool to her own Bethany Beach home.
Read MoreEvery summer, people flock to their local sandy shores for a little R & R. But whether you live near a beach (or just dream about it) you can incorporate a classic coastal style at…
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Most people don’t start out with a messy closet. Even when a closet is carefully organized at the beginning, however, it might not take long for order to turn to chaos.
Read MoreOcean’s 11, a Marnie Custom Homes design with an inspiring background, is the cover story in the Real Estate section of the Washington Post.
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Tom and Lisa Kloster kicked off and wrapped up the summer in Bethany Beach, Delaware. The Potomac couple loved to escape the grind of their busy lives in the D.C. area for a slower pace on…
Read MoreAbby and Neil Imus found the ideal place to build their vacation home, a rare vacant lot on the ocean in Bethany Beach. To transform their vision of a high-end, family-friendly retreat into a reality,…
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DIY Network star Marnie Oursler takes on colossal coastal projects - this time, her own! Marnie gave a tour of her own home, Dream Catcher, as part of a feature for the July/August edition of…
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HGTV Magazine is sharing tips and tricks from the folks the HGTV and DIY Network hosts count on to make houses look fresh and fab. Marnie's painter Ed Hileman says "Pro's don't always prime fresh…
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WASHINGTON — There’s something about a beach house that triggers a state of instant relaxation. Sure, the location doesn’t hurt (especially if there are miles between you and your inbox), but there’s more to it…
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Entertainment Cruises, Washington, DC, celebrated its “New Year New Pier” initiative with a private tour unveiling their new office space– shaped like a ship and located in the heart of the revitalized Wharf complex.
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Marnie Oursler, host of DIY Network’s Big Beach Builds shows some fancy beach home renovations! Catch season 2 of Big Beach Builds on the DIY Network.
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I’ve spent practically my entire life vacationing on the Delaware shoreline, from Fenwick Island, where my parents had three different places over the years (including this one), up to Bethany and Rehoboth beaches...
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Home building in Bethany Beach is second nature for fifth-generation builder Marnie Oursler, who grew up in Virginia and Maryland before making Bethany Beach her new hometown and starting Marnie Custom Homes while in her…
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Today’s guest spends her time building luxury homes and is also an Entrepreneur and CEO of Marnie Custom Homes. Her company is based in Bethany Beach, Delaware and specializes in building beach homes which are…
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BETHANY BEACH, Del. (AP) - From picking up garbage at homes created by her father to her own series on the DIY Network, Marnie Oursler’s story weaves together a family legacy of builders. “It’s all…
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Bethany Beach homebuilder Marnie Oursler recently announced the launch of Sawdust & Salt Co., an online shop where 100 percent of profits are donated to charity. Oursler said she opened the online store because she…
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From picking up garbage at homes created by her father to her own series on the DIY Network, Marnie Oursler's story weaves together a family legacy of builders. "It's all just been so incredible," Oursler…
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DIY network star of Big Beach Builds, Marnie Oursler chats with Chris about how you can update and revitalize your beach home.
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Bethany Beach, DE – Marnie Oursler, Founder and President of Marnie Custom Homes and star of beach home renovation show Big Beach Builds on DIY Network, is pleased to announce the launch of Sawdust &…
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Bethany Beach homebuilder Marnie Oursler makes being a woman in a male-dominated industry work to her advantage. "If I'm building a house for a husband and wife, I connect with both.
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If you're planning — or considering — building a home, you're probably asking yourself two questions: "Where?" and "How much?" But Marnie Oursler, star of "Big Beach Builds," says the most important question you should…
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With her out-of-the-box thinking and construction background, Marnie Oursler now has her own show on the D.I.Y. Network called Big Beach Builds.
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One of Calvert County’s own is DIY Network’s newest star. Marnie Oursler will be the host of the upcoming “Big Beach Builds” show premiering March 20 at 9 p.m. Oursler’s family moved to Calvert County…
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Hollywood, MD - For generations, the men in Marnie Oursler’s family have been builders. Oursler grew up in Prince George’s County and lived briefly in Northern Virginia before her family moved to Calvert County. The…
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Marnie Oursler, host of DIY Network’s new series, Big Beach Builds, constructs and decorates custom homes for clients along the Delaware coastline. Inspired by childhood summers at the beach, Marnie incorporates the same "relaxed" coastal…
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Nearly 60 percent of everything Americans buy comes from overseas, including what’s in our homes. Though purchasing home products and materials overseas may be cheaper up front, it comes with risk and can be costlier…
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Thursday, December 1, 2016 BRIDGEVILLE, DE – Marnie Oursler, President of Marnie Custom Homes, delivered the keynote address at The Women in Business Downstate Luncheon, hosted by Delaware Today Magazine and the Delaware Business Times.…
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BETHANY BEACH, DE – Award-winning Bethany Beach builder Marnie Oursler has been named a member of the Board of Advisors for The Center of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at The Fuqua School of Business at Duke…
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We’ll start with a disclaimer: There are just waaaay too many awesome women in this country. So we had to pare it down to one per state. From small but important accomplishments (like being the…
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Delaware is a place where everybody knows everybody. Or do we? Cool new companies are sprouting up all over the state, and some stalwart companies are reinventing themselves. Let us introduce you to 13 of…
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Marnie Oursler’s steely work ethic and bubbly personality helped. It sounds like the punchline to a twisted joke. But in July 2007, at the precipice of the subprime mortgage crisis that would send the entire…
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When Conrad Lifsey and his partner, Derek Loftin, who own a luxury RV rental company in Palm Springs, bought a house 2015 in a property development called Sol, what sealed the deal for them wasn’t…
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SALISBURY, Md. — When Bethany Beach builder Marnie Oursler's television pilot, Big Beach Builds, aired on HGTV in February, she was unsure what was next. She was hopeful a network would decide to turn the…
Read MoreBethany Beach-based custom home builder Marnie Oursler will be bringing national attention to coastal Delaware when HGTV premieres the pilot episode of her new show, Big Beach Builds, Friday Feb. 5. "One episode will take…
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If you’re a female entrepreneur in today’s world, you know it’s an uphill battle. Being underestimated and overlooked is part of the game, and sometimes all you have is your own determination to bank on.…
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Bethany home renovator Marnie Oursler is normally figuring out the best way to construct households. With the debut of her new HGTV series, “Big Beach Builds,” she will now also try to entertain them.
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Winter can sometimes be a drag, from the shorter days to the darker nights. But, Marnie Oursler, president of Marnie Custom Homes and star of HGTV's "Big Beach Build," showed us how we can brighten…
Read MoreThe most expensive mistake you can make when renovating your home — or building a new one — is a choice, says HGTV star Marnie Oursler of "Big Beach Builds." "If you decide you want…
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Growing up in and around DC with parents who were both builders, Marnie Oursler had no intention of following in their footsteps.
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Delaware is once again getting its fifteen minutes of fame. Bethany Beach, Delaware has recently been in the limelight after the development of a new reality television show. “Big Beach Builds,” premiers this Friday (February…
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A Bethany Beach builder lands her own television series. Marnie Oursler owns Marnie Custom Homes, and will star in the pilot episode of the new series:
Read MoreWhen Marnie Oursler started building resort homes in the Bethany Beach area, she never thought she'd have her own television series because of it. But now it's a possibility. Oursler, owner of Marnie Custom Homes,…
Read MoreIn 2003, when Marnie Oursler was 24 years old, she bought her first house. The home, in Bethany Beach, Delaware, where her family had vacationed when she was a child, was a $240,000 fixer-upper that…
Read MoreAbout 60 percent of everything Americans buy comes from overseas. Marnie Oursler, from Marnie Homes, believes all-American-made is the key, when it comes to home building [...]
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Do you want to see how a builder’s home looks like? Here is Marnie Oursler’s former home, the Lookout, a beautiful white and blue Bethany Beach house. Customized to her own needs and desires, the…
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Marnie Oursler used to sell houses. Now she designs and builds stunning homes that delight her clients. And in doing so, Marnie has learnt how to run a successful business. Marnie knows how to have…
Read MoreMarnie Oursler of Bethany Beach may be one of the few people to get accepted to a prestigious MBA program after admitting in an application letter that people thought she was crazy. But after eating…
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