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Contractors

5 Smart Home Renovation Tips

It is your home and you will soon be paying thousands perhaps tens of thousands of dollars to have it renovated. Your investment is a costly one, but something you believe will pay off with a home that is more enjoyable for your family and one that improves in value accordingly.

Home Interior Design

Shabby Chic: Home Decor Projects that Will Add Some Bling Without Too Much Ka-Ching

Decorating your home is a perfect avenue for expressing creativity. Decor does not need to be elaborate or costly to have the appearance that it was designed by a professional.

Home Decor

7 Fall Organizing Tips

Getting organized is not a science, rather it is an effort. Fall is the perfect time of the year to reorder your home with summer now past and the holidays approaching.

Home Structure

Speedy Renovations Can Equal Shoddy Work

Your home renovation plans have been brimming below the surface and suddenly you can think of a good reason to get this job done now: you’ll be entertaining for the holidays.

Home Financing

How to Refinance Your Home

Homeowners enticed by historically low interest rates are considering refinancing their homes. This may be an option for you as well, especially if you took out a mortgage several years ago and are paying an interest rate that is at least one point higher than your current rate.

Home Decor

Inexpensive Fall Home Decor Ideas

As cooler fall weather settles in, our attention turns from the outside of the home to its inside. If you haven’t updated your decor since the beginning of the summer, the following fall home decor ideas are inexpensive and fun.

Yard and Garden

Fall Overseeding and Your Patchy Lawn

Your lawn has survived the summer beat down, but it is now patchy, worn and a bit pathetic. Fall is the ideal time to aerate and overseed your lawn, a twin effort that can yield extraordinary results.

Decks-Patios-Porches

How to Donate Your Patio Furniture

Summer is over and it is time to put away your patio furniture. This year, however, you decided that you don’t want to put your furniture away. Instead, you plan to donate it with an eye toward buying new furniture by next spring.

Home Lighting

How to Install an Electric Dimmer

An electric dimmer switch allows you to vary the brightness of a lamp or other light. If you’d like to enjoy superior control over the intensity of a light, you should install an electric dimmer.

Doors and Windows

Door Styles That Make A Statement

Updating a home can get expensive, but if you want to make a small investment that can yield a fresh look, then changing your doors can liven things up. Yes, your doors — as in your interior doors and those leading to a patio, a deck or to the front of your house.

Exterior Home

Statement Making Stylish Storm Doors

It used to be that when you ordered a storm door for your home, you got two choices: drab and even drabber still.

Walls and Painting

Interior Paint Colors: What’s Hot, What’s Not

Short of a full-blown and expensive home renovation, what is the best way to refresh the interior of your home without going broke? Apply a new coat of paint, of course.

Home Inspections

Say Yes to a Commercial Property Inspection

Your purchase of commercial property should hinge upon the property’s condition, giving it the same level of consideration you would to residential property — perhaps more so.

Green Home

6 Green Home Improvements that Won’t Hurt Your Finances

Looking to go green with your home, but don’t have the cash to finance huge changes? You don’t have to start big.

Bed and Bath

Top 5 Items That Add Style To Your Bathroom

Sprucing up the bathroom is simple. A few potted plants in the window and a fresh toothbrush holder are a nice change. Adding style to your bathroom transforms it into a brand new room, but a professional makeover is expensive and takes forever.

Garden Furniture

You Can Save Money on Summer Outdoor Furniture

With summer now behind us, you will soon be putting all of your outdoor furniture away. Then again, if you’re tired of your current set and really don’t want to store it only to bring it out again next spring, you can sell your set and buy new furniture instead. Like right now.

Home Financing

What You Need to Know About a Home Equity Line of Credit

A home equity line of credit or HELOC is a popular borrowing option for homeowners, but is handled differently than a home equity loan or HEL. With a HEL, you receive your money up front.

Home Structure

Give Your Home a Fall Makeover

Now that September is upon us, the days will be getting shorter and the temperatures will begin to drop. Kids are heading back to school and adults are exhausting their remaining vacation days before the weather grows brisk.

Yard and Garden

7 Quick and Easy Fall Yard Projects

Beautiful fall weather is here, offering a welcome contrast to the hottest days of summer. The next few months promise to serve up enough days that are not too warm and not too cold.

Flooring

How to Remove Old Carpeting

Wall to wall carpeting when it is new can be an attractive addition to many rooms. But, when this carpet is old as in worn, outdated or simply unattractive, it can become a hindrance to your home.