Your doors play an essential role in the safety, security, and energy efficiency of your home. If age is starting to take its toll on your doors or one was recently damaged in an unexpected accident, delaying a door repair …
Advice on How to prepare a deck for stain
Do you think you already know how to prepare a deck for stain? You don’t want to make assumptions here… Or that beautifully stained deck you have in your head could turn into a hot mess on your porch, requiring …
A Picturesque Front Porch Swing Installation
Few things embody summer like a lazy day whiling the hours away with the family and friends on a front porch swing. For your luck, if your porch is missing one of these airborne beauties, you can add its charm …
Tips On How To Remove Your Carpet
Whether your existing carpet has fallen out of style, become stained or worn, or you’re simply ready for a change, new flooring is sure to freshen up your interior space. Before any new carpeting can be installed however, the old …
Ways To Fix A Stubborn Sagging Door
A sagging door can be a nuisance, sticking stubbornly to the doorjamb as you struggle to open or close it. If you want to leave your sagging door open, it may also create problems–often the door swings closed on its …
Is Engineered Quartz a Smart Countertop Option?
Considering engineered quartz installation? An increasingly popular choice for kitchen remodels, continuing advances in quartz technology have made this manmade stone a favorite nationwide.quartz counter top How Can It Be A Stone If It’s Manmade? Unlike 100% natural stones, such …
When Is It Time to Recaulk Your Bathroom?
Depending on your personal preferences, your bathroom may be designated as a solely utilitarian space, or a relaxing oasis filled with scented candles and fluffy towels. Regardless of how you use this space, there are many elements that need to …
Taped and Mudded: What Does It Mean?
When doing drywall work in your home, you’ll find that the term ‘taped and mudded’ is often used regarding aesthetics and even fire protection codes and requirements. What exactly is mudding? What exactly is taping? After reading this, if someone …
How to Install DIY Floating Shelves
Budget-friendly and easy to install, DIY floating shelves are an amazing addition for any wall in your home. A project that doesn’t take long to complete, floating shelves offer attractive, practical storage for stowing books, art, bric-a-brac and more. DIY …
Upgrade Your Kitchen With a New Range Hood
The kitchen is one of the most commonly upgraded rooms in the home. And sooner or later you to complete an extensive renovation, but even if you don’t have the budget or desire to do that, you still might be …
Replace Your Exterior Light Fixtures
Are your outdoor light fixtures weatherworn, bug-ridden and overlooked even though you depend on them through the dark of night? Exterior light fixtures are an important feature of your home for many reasons, and if yours have seen better days, …
Install a Pull-Out Trash Can in Your Kitchen
Is your trash can still taking up precious kitchen space? Instead of leaving the area under your sink as space where unwanted cleaners go to die, put it to better use with a pull-out trash can and recycling bin. Reclaim …
What You Need to Know About Undermount Kitchen Sinks
Are you struggling with pooling water, grime and buildup around your sink? Tired of fighting with countertop crumb disposal? Undermount sink installation could easily deliver these cleaning woes with a one-two punch. An Underhanded Blow to the Competition Compared to …
Emergency! My House is Humid and Musty!
The level of humidity in your home plays a vital role in the health of your home and family, and measures should be taken to control the amount of moisture in the air for optimum comfort and safety. If you …
Learn How to Hang Three Pictures in a Row
As a homeowner, you’ve likely noticed pictures hanging on someone else’s wall, which weren’t exactly level. Even something as seemingly minor as this can throw your decorating efforts off kilter! For decades, there’s been an unwritten rule that wall groupings …