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Controlling Remodeling Costs – Picking Finishes (3 of 3)
Remodeling projects are exciting. It’s easy to get caught up in the excitement picking out all sorts of features and finishes from built-ins to cabinets, flooring and more. It’s also easy to exceed...
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Eco Home In Your Future?
Eco home means something different to everyone. That’s because each homeowner picks the green home features that most closely fit their lifestyle, home location and budget. That’s why I thought it...
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Two Master Suites: One Up & One Down
Master suites: are large bedrooms, bigger than the other bedrooms in the house. Another characteristic of a master suite or master bath ensuite as it is called on HGTV, is a larger, private bathroom...
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Eco Homes: Energy, Water & Air Quality
Eco homes focus on saving energy, reducing water usage, increasing indoor air quality and making sustainable choices in the products and materials we use. In reality, each of us picks the green home...
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Pinterest for Home & Homeowners
Pinterest for home planning makes a lot of sense. Our homes are first visual, and then functional in how they support our lifestyles. Pinterest is a great tool for collecting ideas of how we’d like our...
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Pinterest Fun & Fear
Pinterest is the latest social media platform to capture our imaginations. According to Comscore, 1 in 4 consumers is spending less time on other social media sites in favor of Pinterest. In many ways...
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Building a House: Who Picks What?
Building a house involves many more decisions that you might imagine. The same is true for smaller remodeling projects and even redecorating a room, i.e. who thinks picking just the right paint color...
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Kitchen Cabinets Can Go Almost Anywhere
Kitchen cabinets almost always live in the kitchen, but sometimes they find themselves filling other useful roles in the house. That’s because kitchen cabinets are very good at providing storage that...
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Building Codes Help Us Weather Storms
Building codes at times might feel like a nuisance but they serve a valuable role in protecting our families and homes. In fact most homeowners don’t realize there are building codes until they build...
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Home Construction and Build USA
Home construction is always a challenge. Proving you can build a house with only materials made in the USA is even more challenge. Learn how one determined couple succeeded with only a few surprises,...
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Custom Houses: Matching House Style & Location
Custom houses are something we all dream about, yet few people turn those dreams into reality. Finding a town where you want to live forever is a challenge but easy compared to finding the right lot...
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Building Costs, Carpentry and Corners?
Building costs are closely tied to the number of square feet in a house. As the size of a house increases, the cost per square foot goes down as you’re now able to spread the cost of excavation, the...
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Home Office Remodel or Home Office Furniture?
What’s in your home office, or do you even have a home office? The concept of a home office isn’t new – it’s actually quite old. When the US economy was based on agriculture, homes were also where...
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Remodeling & Home Repair Estimates: Honesty or Sales Tool?
Remodeling and home repair estimates are a lot like price tags on clothes in the store. For those who only want to buy things on sale, you’re going to pick the lowest price. With clothing, you tend to...
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Home Builder Warranty – What’s Included or Not
Home builders make their money, and buyers rely on their home builder, to bring together quality products, materials and workmanship to build your house. When we built a house in New York, it helped...
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Caulking: How Many Types are There?
Buying caulk isn’t easy because there are so many different kinds. Unless you’re a handyman who uses caulk every week, for different home repair projects, you probably don’t realize that picking caulk...
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Home Builders Finding Building Materials in Short Supply
Home builders are happy to see more interest in new home construction, home additions and larger remodeling projects. Not surprising, the good news comes with challenges. Home builders are struggling...
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Why Load Bearing Walls Matter When Remodeling
Wondering why the fuss about load bearing walls? Today’s new homes have bigger rooms and many have open floor plans which are so popular today. The kitchen is no longer for cooking. The kitchen is the...
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Digging a Hole is Safe When You Call 811
Digging a hole in your backyard seems simple but it’s not as simple as digging at the beach (couldn’t resist the photo). You may own your property and control what happens above ground but the...
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Remodeling Houses for Profit?
People love the shows on Home and Garden Television (HGTV), the ones that show you how remodeling houses for profit can be done week after week, or maybe there are a few replays in the schedule? The...
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