As the year enters the home stretch, it’s a good opportunity to look at mid-range home improvement projects from last year and which ones brought in a good return on homeowners’ investments. It’s been a rough year for many a homeowner, but it hasn’t stopped some owners from performing small-scale room additions, modifications, and other [...]
If you work from home, or just need a refuge from the rest of your family to pay bills and write emails, a home office makes for a relatively straightforward home addition or modification. Knowing what kinds of tasks you plan on handling, the amount of time you plan on spending in the home office, [...]
Whether you’re adding a room, installing new carpet, or painting, you’re putting yourself and family members in potential harm’s way if you don’t have a mitigation plan for off-gassing, dust, and other pollutants. Sealing up the room you’re remodeling to keep particulates from invading the rest of your home is a crucial step that too [...]
Game rooms are all about expressing the personalities of the people who play in them. Some homeowners like converting a basement space into the ultimate man cave, replete with wide-screen televisions, pool tables, Foosball sets, video games, small kitchens, and wet bars. Others are happy enough with some tables and chairs, a comfortable couch, and [...]
Mudrooms are commonplace in the entryways of homes in the cold and wet north and northeast of the country, where families deposit their muddy boots and coats before entering the house. But they’ve become common here in horse country where I live in California, too. People can remove muddy or soaked work boots instead of [...]
It happened early in August. The venerable New York Times ran an article by Sonia Zjawinski noting that homeowners were “remodeling with their pets in mind.” That’s like the tail wagging the dog when it comes to home improvements, isn’t it? Not so, claims Zjawinski, who writes that simply laying out feeding bowls and water [...]
The range of materials and prices in the latest flooring products should create enthusiasm for homeowners looking for something different than the same old carpeting or tile coverings. With prices dropping on many flooring products and environmental products on the upswing, you really do have choices today. Imagine this–54 percent of hardwood flooring sold today [...]
By now, most of you know all about the ENERGYSTAR programs that can bring tax credits for green remodeling if the products are purchased by the end of this year. But there are plenty of other incentives around the U. S. for doing green remodeling. And some states and municipalities have their own provisions and [...]
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