|
Quick and Dirty Guide to Wood Flooring
If you've always longed for hardwood floors, you're in good company. While soft wooden floors date back to the Colonial era, hardwood floors first burst on the scene in the late 17th century. If you ...
Read
more
Quick And Easy Bathroom Decor Changes
Are you tired of the way your bathroom looks? Don't feel bad, a lot of folks are in the same boat. The bathroom is one room in the home that can look drab and run down very easily. And what if you do...
Read
more
Quick Housecleaning Tips For Your Home
Ah Yes! The house is a mess...again! Why do I even bother attempting the impossible? I'll tell you why I do it. For one thing, I don't like living in a mess. Another reason is that People tend to sho...
Read
more
Quick Smart Cleaning – The Bathroom
The bathroom isn’t like any other room in the house; it needs to be cleaned to a certain standard to maintain hygiene. But it doesn’t necessarily have to take an eternity. In this Quick Smart Cleanin...
Read
more
Quick Smart Cleaning – The Lounge
In our very first quick smart cleaning guide we look at how you can clean your lounge area in fifteen minutes. Now, you’re probably thinking that a fifteen-minute clean just isn't possible. Not only ...
Read
more
Range Cookers
Why clutter the kitchen with numerous separate, small appliances when you can get them all in a range cooker? Make your kitchen as efficient and versatile as you with a single range cooker to cater t...
Read
more
Rayburn Cookers
Rayburn cookers have been popular with people for over five decades now. They are regularly used by expert cooks, professionals and amateurs invariably, providing them with immense satisfaction while...
Read
more
Re-Define What "Clean" Means for You and Your Home
There's an old saying - A person doesn't buy a drill because they want a drill. They buy the drill because they want a hole. The same is true for vacuum cleaners. A person only buys a vacuum cleaner ...
Read
more
Reading the Lawn Mower Ratings
Are you in the market for a new lawn mower? To make the best purchase possible, it’s necessary to do some market research and check out all the options available to you. Many magazines and web sites offer reviews of lawn mowers and often provide a chart o
Read
more
Ready to Move? Consider Remodeling Instead
(ARA) - Is your home feeling a little squeezed or out-of-date? You may want to join the millions of Americans who are turning to professional contractors instead of Realtors. According to the Nati...
Read
more
Real Estate: Financial Considerations $$$
Raw land as opposed to improved property is much more difficult to finance through traditional lenders. The main reasons are that it generates very little income, development costs can be expensive, ...
Read
more
Realign your budget - purchase your first piece of fine art
If you don't have at least one piece of fine art in your home, then you just have no idea what you are missing out on. Whether an original or reproduction piece, fine art adds warmth, beauty and inte...
Read
more
Red Roses If I Love You, Yellow If I Don't: The Secret Language of Flowers
Flowers have been given a special significance for centuries. They have long been treasured for their scent and their beauty. Perhaps nobody has esteemed flowers, however, as highly as the people of the Victorian age. For them, flowers were so important t...
Read
more
Reduce Your Heating Bills This Winter
Imagine leaving a window open all winter long -- the heat loss, cold drafts and wasted energy! If your home has a folding attic stair, fireplace or clothes dryer, that may be just what is occurring i...
Read
more
Reduce Your Heating Bills This Winter - Overlooked Sources of Heat Loss in the Home
Imagine leaving a window open all winter long – the heat loss, cold drafts, and wasted energy! Well if your home has a folding attic stair, a fireplace, and/or a clothes dryer, that may be just what ...
Read
more
Refining Your Area Rug Choice
As a Managing Partner of www.exquisiterugs.com, the question I am often asked, "What determines the quality of a rug?" While the question posed seems relatively simple it is broad in scope and indeed...
Read
more
Refinish Your Hardwood Floor Like a Pro
This article is written by a pro of refinishing hardwood floors since I have done too many to count. Maybe 300 would be a good guess. My father was in the business full time (as well as aluminum win...
Read
more
Refresh, Renew, Rejuvenate Your Home with a Makeover
(ARA) - Consider renewing and refreshing your living environment with a makeover. To make a notable difference this year, spruce up your home with a touch of personality and style. Combining fashion...
Read
more
Refrigerator electricity usage lowered in 15 minutes
November 2004
I recently had a customer ask for my advise about cleaning her refrigerator.
I started to describe the pros and cons of different cleaners that can be used to clean the interior when she stopped me abruptly. “I know all ab...
Read
more
Release Some Tension...Spend Some Time In Your Garden
Gardening can be one of the most rewarding and relaxing hobbies that you can engage in. Picture a beautiful spring day, the sweet smell of grass in the air and you get to go out and work the soil and...
Read
more
Remodel your bathroom for a fraction of the cost with bathtub liners.
There is a quiet revolution in the world of bathroom remodeling. Every day, more people discover the miracles that can be achieved with a 1/4 inch thick sheet of acrylic. Say hello to the bathtub liner.
Typically, when your bathtub is tired, worn,
Read
more
Remodeling Online
Making remodeling plans for a house helps you to ensure that your home meets all your needs. It also adds value to your home in the long term. After all, you will spend at least half your working lif...
Read
more
Remodeling Tips Should You Do The Remodeling Yourself?
When we decide to remodel often we have tastes that outway our budgets. We have a vision of just what we want, then we get the bids from the contractors, they are far beyond what we can afford. So we suddenly see ourselves as do it yourself contractor...
Read
more
Remodeling Your Home: How Much Is Too Much?
The classic way for homeowners to increase the value of their house is by remodeling existing rooms or adding on to its current plan. Some choose to build recreation rooms and studies while others ad...
Read
more
Remove Permanent Marker Stains
How do you remove permanent marker stains from carpet? Well, the bad news is that it's called "permanent" marker for a reason. Depending on how new and how deep the stains are, you may not be able to...
Read
more
REMOVING OLD ALUMINUM WINDOWS
This week we are going to talk about the process of actually removing your aluminum windows in preparation for installing vinyl replacement windows. Let's start with a horizontal sliding window, which is pretty common nationwide. There is going to be...
Read
more
REMOVING YOUR OLD SLIDING GLASS DOOR
Last week I explained how to measure your existing sliding glass door so you can order the vinyl replacement door. This week I am going to go over the steps required to remove the old sliding door before installing the new door.
First, you have to...
Read
more
Removing your old wood double hung windows
Last week i told you how to measure your wood window openings to properly order your new vinyl replacement
windows. This week i'm going to explain how to remove your old windows. The vast majority of wood sash double hung windows in
America have t...
Read
more
Renew Thyself Daily, with Candles! - a Candle Review
One of my favorite quotes is a quote of a quote in Transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau’s Walden, a writing he found on the bathtub of King Tchingthang, which Thoreau describes, " ‘Renew thyself com...
Read
more
Rent Control Rehab for the Well-Heeled
For those who don't need it, rent control can become an addiction, resulting from too many years of a sweet deal. It can leave the real estate muscles paralyzed and the investment portfolio sick. "Pe...
Read
more
Repairing holes in Sheetrocked Walls
It is quite simple to repair a hole in a Sheetrocked wall, however there are minor differences in methods of repair depending on how large the hole is.
Small size holes (1/4” or smaller)
With small holes, simply apply a little joint c...
Read
more
REPAIRING PUTTY WINDOW GLASS
REPAIRING PUTTY WINDOW GLASSHave you ever thought about fixing a broken window in your house, but didn't think you could do it because nobody ever taught you how to cut glass? Well, you really don't have to know how to cut glass in order to repair your ...
Read
more
REPLACEMENT OR RETROFIT STYLE FRAME? WHICH IS RIGHT FOR YOU?
Last week i told you how to measure for your vinyl replacement windows when replacing aluminum windows. Now that you're ready to order your new vinyl replacement windows, we need to talk about the different frame style options available. In most of ...
Read
more
REPLACING ALUMINUM FRAME SINGLE PANE WINDOWS
In our past articles i talked about all the steps required to properly replace your old wood sash windows with energy efficient vinyl windows. I told you how to measure for the new windows. Then we discussed the removal of the wood sashes and parting...
Read
more
Replacing the Irreplaceable
There's Hope for that Broken Tea Cup or Lost Fork (ARA) - "They were the only ones that offered any encouragement," says Margaret Winters. The Northridge, Calif. resident is talking about Replacement...
Read
more
REPLACING YOUR OLD WOOD DOUBLE HUNG WINDOWS
REPLACING YOUR OLD WOOD DOUBLE HUNG WINDOWS
Let's say you're tired of those old wood windows, and you decide it's time to upgrade to vinyl replacement windows.
You get 2 or 3 contractors to come out and give you an estimate. After they leav...
Read
more
REPLACING YOUR SLIDING GLASS DOOR ROLLERS
If the sliding glass doors in your home are more than 10 years old, you might notice that they are becoming harder to slide open. This problem is even more common on aluminum frame dual pane doors. The reason is because the doors are heavier due to the d...
Read
more
Restore and Protect Your Deck
Have the long months of winter taken a toll on your deck? Is it dirty, mildew-stained and wearing a coat of gray? Don’t worry. It’s easy to restore your deck to its natural beauty so you can enjo...
Read
more
Resurfacing an old Concrete Patio
A porch or patio can be one of the most useful exterior areas of your home if its covered with an attractive surface material, cleared of all excess junk and with a little thought given to landscapin...
Read
more
Retain Customers Year After Year
To most people Christmas is a time for worship, for family, for celebration and for giving and receiving. However, to the shrewd business owner it is also the perfect time at which to cement the corp...
Read
more
Reverse Mortgages, Getting a Good Deal In 3 Easy Steps!
Reverse Mortgages, Most Common Features: A reverse mortgage is a special type of loan that seniors can sometimes get to convert the equity in their homes to cash. Many reverse mortgages offer special...
Read
more
Rid Your Garden of Slugs
Slugs are major pests of horticultural plants throughout the world. They are destructive pests of home gardens, landscapes, nurseries, greenhouses, and field crops. Slugs also pose a health threat t...
Read
more
Rising Damp
It doesn’t sound like a particularly interesting topic, however a quick search on the worlds favourite internet search engine will show that in some circles rising damp is a very hot topic indeed. Th...
Read
more
Rodent Proofing Your Home
It's that time of year where rats and mice are apt to enter our homes. Lets talk a bit about their abilities and senses first. Rats and mice cannot see very good beyond 3 or 4 feet but have a very g...
Read
more
Roofing Secrets Revealed
(ARA) - Choosing the right roofing material for your home can be a mystery for many homeowners. With the number of options available, it has become increasingly difficult to choose. Over the last fe...
Read
more
Rooster Decor: Give Your Kitchen Something to Crow About!
Longing to have a touch of the country life in your home? Consider using a rooster, one of the main centerpieces of what is known as French Country décor, as a theme in your kitchen. This is a style ...
Read
more
Rose Garden Tips
Rose Garden Tips
The rose garden ultimately is a get away for you and your thoughts any time of the day. You can plan and create a rose garden of your own that will take away the stress of your day with its beauty. The rose garden that you love a...
Read
more
Rose Gardening Challenges
Rose gardening can be a challenging exercise but you don't have to be an expert to grow roses. Roses are grown successfully in gardens in nearly every different type of climate and environmental condition. Coming in a rainbow of colors and thousan...
Read
more
Rose Petals Add The Perfect Touch For A Wedding
Rose petals will add luxury to a wedding day or any other special occasion. Why settle for throwing ordinary rice when instead you can make the wedding so much more romantic by tossing rose petals? ...
Read
more
Roses - Creating Beautiful Cut Roses
Many gardeners like to enjoy their roses twice — first in the garden, then indoors as cut flowers. By choosing the right roses, cutting them at the proper time of day, and conditioning them after cu...
Read
more
Rugs, Rugs And Rugs…Where’d They Come From?
Rugs are nice to look at and comfortable to walk on. Rugs can really help define a home and especially a room. A well chosen rug can help bring out the wall color and furniture of any room. Rugs come...
Read
more
Rustic Accessories the New Buzz in Home Decor
(ARA) - As the cooler seasons draw closer, thoughts and activities drift slowly from the outdoors to the inside, and the annual human version of hibernation begins. We re-acclimate to shorter days an...
Read
more
Rustic Stone House Signs
You may own a remarkably constructed, attractive house that is perfect from every angle. The outside of the house is designed to demand a second look from anyone passing by. So it’s important that pe...
Read
more
|