Tips for an outdoor dining space

Quick Tips for Designing an Outdoor Dining Space RISMEDIA, Thursday, February 04, 2016— Whether your home is a house in the suburbs or a high rise in the city, taking advantage of the outdoors is a great way to expand your livable space. If you are working with a large backyard, your possibilities may be
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8 Home Renovations That Will Pay You Back

8 Home Renovations That Will Pay You Back By Barbara Pronin RISMEDIA, Saturday, February 07, 2015— When you own a home, it seems like there is almost always something you would like to do to make it more comfortable, attractive, or eco-friendly. But, home remodeling experts tell us, if you plan to sell your home at some
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Five Key Tips to a Smooth Bathroom Remodel



Five Key Tips to a Smooth Bathroom Remodel By Andrea Davis RISMEDIA, Tuesday, January 27, 2015— Bathroom remodeling is an extensive process involving many parts. If you miss a piece, there’s a good chance your project is going to head south, requiring you to spend more money than you’d intended on parts and repairs. It’s
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10 DIY home staging tips

How you live in your home and how you sell your house are two different ways. Use these tips to get started with your home staging: 1. Get a different perspective. Walk across the street and take a long, hard look at your house. Put on your buyer hat…make a list of 5-10 things that are
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How do you net your fruit trees?

How do you net your fruit trees?

Its been a summer of protecting our gardens…I’ve already netted the berry patch and only found 1 bird who managed to find their way in, which after some tweaking, I haven’t seen anymore.  We got delicious strawberries, raspberries and now blackberries from that garden. Its been a summer of protecting our gardens…I’ve already netted the
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Easy Green Tips

Easy Green Tips

It’s easy to go green without even noticing or making many changes to your lifestyle.  Here are a few tips that I follow each day: 1) Don’t Preheat your oven-  unless you are cooking temperamental items, such as bread or baked goods, no need to preheat the oven.  Just put whatever you need to cook

Do you have a drafty door? Try this easy DIY project

Baby, it’s cold outside!! Anything we can do to decrease our energy bill right now we will attempt.  We build fires, wear layers of clothes, a winter hat, and a heated blanket.   The next step was to stop the draft by the doors.  We used to use a blanket against the doors to stop
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Seasonal Home improvements to complete during the fall

Fall is perfect for checking off a few to-do lists on your home repair checklist. Here are a few suggestions to start with these to improve your home this fall: Roof Repair Replacing or repairing a roof  before the winter storms, be it rain or snow. Winter winds and precipitation (think ice) can prevent a
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Cleaning without chemicals

Do you like to keep a clean house, yet don’t like the smell of all the chemical cleaners? Maybe you are worried about what the use of those chemicals could possibly do to yourself, your children or your pets? I have been doing a lot of research lately to come up with natural-chemical free cleaners
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DIY Garden Trellises

This is year two of our garden. Last year we had two garden areas that produced hundreds of tomatoes, a few varieties of squashes, broccoli, green beans and cucumbers. We did not really tame the wild garden and it is an understatement to say things were a bit overgrown. But, even overgrown, we enjoyed the
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