If you are considering selling your home, whether imminently or a few years down the line, making changes that add value are always a good idea. Some improvements may cost more than others. However, regardless of your budget, there are always things you can do to enhance your property’s profitability. Besides helping your home sell faster, they will make your home even more … [Read more...] about How To Increase Home Value
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How To Enjoy Your Home More
These days it seems that we are all spending more time at home than ever before. Our homes are our shelters from the storms of life, both literally and figuratively. It is important that we set our home up to function for us in ways that increase our comfort and happiness. That is why I am glad to partner with Whirlpool Corporation to introduce you to their newest customer … [Read more...] about How To Enjoy Your Home More
Storage Under Stairs: Impressive Ideas You Never Considered
Do you feel that space is shrinking around the house ever since the family got bigger? You may be onto something! As the family grows, there are more things to store and organize in the house. Not to mention that the kids are not executors of proper storage and organization. So how do you keep things under control? Well, get organized and create more storage space. But where? … [Read more...] about Storage Under Stairs: Impressive Ideas You Never Considered
4 DIY Jobs You’ve Been Putting Off And Easy Fixes
With the summer holidays, it’s time to tackle those pesky DIY jobs and get your home looking shipshape. The long nights and bank holiday weekends provide the perfect opportunity to tackle those niggling DIY jobs that you’ve been actively avoiding during the winter months. So fix up your home while the weather stays dry, and enjoy the rest of the summer admiring your … [Read more...] about 4 DIY Jobs You’ve Been Putting Off And Easy Fixes
DIY Fireplace Makeover- How To Install Faux Rock Facing
Do you love home makeovers? I do! I love seeing how something can be given a new, fresh look with minimum time and money. That is why this DIY fireplace makeover that was featured on Home & Family on the Hallmark Channel, caught my eye. The Home & Family show has all kinds of interesting stuff and airs weekdays at 10 am on the Hallmark … [Read more...] about DIY Fireplace Makeover- How To Install Faux Rock Facing
The Guide to Build Green Home Additions
Considering building an addition onto your existing home? You might want to consider "going green" for this project. Building green is designed to reduce the overall impact of the "built" environment on the "natural" environment, while improving human health and environmental benefits. Deciding to build green home additions could put some "green" into your wallet. A Guide to … [Read more...] about The Guide to Build Green Home Additions
Read Before Finishing Your Basement
Converting part of an unfinished basement into living space has always been a popular home improvement. Finishing off a basement costs about half as much as you’d pay to build an addition, and it won’t take away any backyard space. Real estate agents like finished basements too. They usually rate this upgrade very high in cost-vs.-value surveys –right up there with kitchen and … [Read more...] about Read Before Finishing Your Basement