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Heating and Cooling

Furnace Troubleshooting, Tips and Tricks

You wake up earlier than normal one morning and soon realize that your home is colder than it should be. Your overnight thermostat setting is at 62 degrees, but a quick check of your thermometer shows a room temperature of 48 degrees and falling.

Home Decor

What To Do With An Empty Boxroom

If all you see when you look at that tiny wannabe bedroom is a bit of dead space – think again. It’s time to think outside the box(room) and realise the potential that lies before you.

Closet Systems

Tips and Tricks of Closet Organization

Closet space comes at a premium in some older homes, with not enough storage area to serve your needs. Even in homes offering an ample number of closets, keeping that space organized can present a challenge. After all, you want to store your stuff, not lose it…right?

Den/Library

Den Possibilities: What’s In Your Room?

If you have been blessed with an extra room in your house, there are many possible uses for it that may come to mind. A workout room. A sewing room. A home office. A library. A den.

Home Decor

Where to Buy the Perfect Plant

Buying that perfect plant doesn’t have to be a challenge. As long as you know you’re looking in the right place, you can easily find it.

Kitchen and Dining

Design Trends of 2013: 5 Ways to Update Your Kitchen

The kitchen is the heart of the home, but when your decor is drab and your appliances are on their last leg, it may be the place you avoid the most.

Garage

4 Living Space Ideas for Your Garage

Homes with an attached garage represent a valuable and often underused space that might be better served if it was renovated and repurposed. Sure, sticking your cars in the garage is the most logical reason for using one, but if we’re honest with ourselves that space is typically used for storage.

Home Furniture

Five Of The Most Uncomfortable Chairs That You Should Avoid

Most of us don’t mind sitting down. In fact, most of us spend a lot of time sitting at work, school, or at home. We all have to sit at some time.

Just Bath

Redesign and Reinvigorate Your Shower With This Simple Idea

If you’ve decided you want to install a new shower and you want multiple heads, understanding how this is done will help you decide whether you can handle the job or need a little help.

Cleaning

The 5 Minute Bathroom Cleaning Solution

Its another Saturday and you find yourself assembling your cleaning solutions, a sponge, broom and mop, with plans to clean your bathrooms. A through cleaning will have both bathrooms whipped into shape within the hour, but you can’t help think, “there must be a better way.”

Home Interior

Spring Home Renovation Projects You Can Plan Today

The weather outside is nasty with snow, freezing rain and slush making venturing about an arduous and miserable task. It is about this time of the season where people’s patience is most tested as the reality of weeks more of enduring a wintry blast come into play.

Bed and Bath

Home Improvement Tip for a Sunday

FOR THE WEEK OF JAN 27

WHAT A MASTERS BEDROOM

Can you say that about your masters bedroom? It may be time to re-decorate your room to make it one of your favorite rooms in the house…

Bed and Bath

Opting for Luxurious Bathroom Furniture

In order to make the bathroom look attractive and nice one can opt for luxurious bathroom furniture.

Roofing and Gutters

What You Need to Know About Snow on Your Roof

A fresh blast of wintry weather has hit your area and once again you’re digging out walkways, your driveway and clearing snow away from your house.

Exterior Home

External Chimney Inspection and Problems

In any home, chimney is one of the most vulnerable and important component of a building. It is quite important to maintain and clean the chimneys to safeguard against collapses and subsequent damages to life and property.

Other Home Needs

Las Vegas, Seattle Pace Housing Turnarounds

Las Vegas and Seattle, two housing markets that were especially battered over the course of housing downturn, have paced all US metropolitan areas in increased housing prices for 2012.

Home Financing

Why Getting a Second Mortgage is More Difficult

You have owned your home for several years and have seen it appreciate in value. After five or more years of mortgage payments, you’ve also seen your mortgage pay off amount drop.

Doors and Windows

DIY: Window Replacement

If your windows are no longer really doing their job – maybe the frames are letting air in, or the glass is starting to warp – now is the time to look into replacement windows.

Home Decor

Make Your Living Room Cozy This Winter

Your Christmas decorations have been packed up and put away, revealing just how spartan your living room looks during the winter. It may be gloomy outside, but that gloominess does not need to invade your home, especially in your living room where you and your family spend most of the time.

Contractors

Dealing With Builders Over Winter

Dealing With Builders Over Winter! Our homes can really choose their moments, can’t they? Just when you thought your humble abode was in ship-shape for the winter, the inevitable happens.