Guest Blogger #687, Entry #1623, September 21, 2012 When it comes to maintaining the temperature in your home most home owners spend over 40% of their household bills on either cooling or heating the various rooms in the house. There are a number of options available to home owners to successfully manage these costs more…
Guest Blogger #685, Entry #1619, September 20, 2012 It’s a buyer’s market. This fact alone makes selling your home even more difficult than ever before. Homebuyers have so many options; new construction seems to constantly compete with the sale of older, ‘used’ homes – making the staging of your home a key criterion for a…
Guest Blogger #681, Entry #1613, September 19, 2012 It may sound silly, but choosing a sofa for your home is not a task to take lightly. Think about it, your sofa is used every day, sometimes all day! There is nothing more frustrating than buying what you think is a good sofa, only to discover…
If you are the type of homeowner who is practical in every sense of the word, including meal preparation, then designing a pizza oven in your kitchen will not be out of place. Kitchen pizza ovens are an appliance that has versatility as its middle name because you use it as an oven in cooking…
Guest Blogger #678, Entry #1609, September 18, 2012 We all want a lush green golf course for a lawn, but most of us are a bit more environmentally conscientious, wanting to avoid adding harsh chemicals to our lawns. So how can we have the best of both – a lush green lawn and avoid all…
Guest Blogger #677, Entry #1607, September 17, 2012 With cool, crisp weather heading your way, it is the perfect time to prepare your home for its long winter hibernation. Whether you live in a colder or warmer climate, fall is the perfect time to tackle much needed maintenance around the house before the temperatures get…
Guest Blogger #676, Entry #1606, September 17, 2012 Not many people like the daunting task of tackling what seems to be the endless cleaning of our homes. Between laundry, dishes, and dusting it seems impossible to ever catch up! However, there are some ways to organize your home and lifestyle which can help you get…
Guest Blogger #674, Entry #1604, September 17, 2012 There is hardly any home that would not do with a small mudroom and this is what brings us to the issue of creating a mudroom in a small home office, entryway or apartment. A lot of persons would agree with me that it makes your home look…
Guest Blogger #672, Entry #1600, September 15, 2012 We all want to believe that we are safe in our own homes. While some of us live in small communities where leaving doors unlocked is considered perfectly acceptable, others will put in alarm systems, locked gates, flood lights, and even security cameras in order to feel…
Guest Blogger #667, Entry #1585, September 11, 2012 French Country is probably one of the most popular decorating choices due to its versatility and appeal of its refined yet cozy aesthetic. Who wouldn’t want to fill their homes with the feel of the French countryside? Think: the blues of the French Riviera, the rustic browns of…
Guest Blogger #665, Entry #1583, September 10, 2012 The average home renovation project may not require a homeowner to obtain any kind of building permits. But remodeling tends to indicate a project altogether more ambitious in scale than selecting new tile for the bathroom floor or new cabinets and counters for the kitchen. A remodeling project…
Best of 2012 – #3! See the entire Best of 2012 on Stagetecture here Entry #1582, September 10, 2012 If you can’t find a space that is your own, and every space in your home is dedicated to someone else in your home, a garage man cave may be the answer. Where can you go…