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Keep Your Bathroom Uncluttered

Have you ever walked into your bathroom and wanted to scream? Are there cosmetics, toothpaste and dirty towels everywhere? You are not alone. Here are a few tips to help “declutter” the most private room in your home. Most bathrooms don’t have enough towel racks. Stacking towel racks on the back of your bathroom door [...]

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Easy to Implement Kitchen Trends

Looking to update your kitchen? Here is a list of what is trending right now. Go Industrial – change our your traditional pendants for something a bit more edgy. Display your collection – remove cabinet doors to show off your treasures. Think about your ceiling – whether you add a coffered ceiling or paint your [...]

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Cleaning Grout

Does your Saturday and Sunday consist of really un “fun” cleaning projects? Cleaning baseboards, vacuuming dust off ceiling fans, and dealing with dog hair. Well, sadly we’re just adding another one to your list. Cleaning your grout. We know, we know….you don’t want to do this, but it is important to keep your tile and [...]

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Ways to Make Your Home Worth More

We all want to get the most out of our home, especially in this economy. Here are a few suggestions that will help you with resale. Heck, when you get done making these improvements you may not even want to sell your house. Curb appeal – you may be sick of hearing this word but [...]

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The Guest Bathroom

Whether you are remodeling your guest bathroom or planning one for your home that is under construction there are several things you should consider before everything is installed. Your most important goal is to make a welcoming space for your guests. While you may splurge on your master bath by adding a huge bathtub, radiant [...]

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Hanging Christmas Lights

If you are like most of us you may have hung your outdoor Christmas decorations over Thanksgiving weekend. Or maybe you didn’t. Maybe you put it off until now because you didn’t want to deal with the ladder, the weather and untangling the mess of lights from last year.  There is no time like the [...]

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Creating Custom Carpets

It happens to many of us often, we comb every retail website and every store and still don’t find what you we’re looking for, especially while looking for carpets. Not every carpet can coordinate perfectly with your home décor that you painstakingly developed over the years. Suppose you need to find a carpet that will [...]

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Lessons from a Blue Room

The traditional architectural details and décor of this room give it a flavor of the past, but it’s a modern room created by someone with traditional taste who, obviously, loves blue. If this room is not your style, fine. But you can learn something about designing your own rooms from looking at other spaces that [...]

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Choose the Right Floor for your Baby

Making plans for a new addition to your family? With a baby coming you may be thinking of buying a larger home or renovating to prepare. As you figure out what you need, be sure to think about the right flooring choices. Babies are all about floors. They lay on them, crawl on them, learn [...]

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Wet Pool & Dry Floors – Can You Have Both?

Do you enjoy having a pool in your backyard but worry about all that water dripping on your nice floors? If you were able to include a bathroom with patio access, you can use that as an airlock – having everyone shower, dry and dress before heading into the rest of the house. However, if [...]

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