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Should You Rehab Your Old Home or Tear It Down?
There’s no denying that older homes have a certain appeal. While modern construction seems to produce little more than cookie-cutter structures with no personality, older homes often feature originality in design, not to mention plenty of visual appeal in the form of wooden, well, everything – not just flooring and cabinetry, but also stairs, banisters, ceiling beams, and so on. And we’re talking beautiful hardwoods replete with the glossy patina of age,... ❯❯❯
Should You Buy a New Home or Purchase a Resale?
One of the biggest decisions for house hunters is whether to purchase a new home or a previously owned home. Due to the crash of the housing market, people have a literal smorgasbord of foreclosed homes and fixer uppers to choose from. Yet, many industry analysts say that people who either want to purchase their first home or are looking for a new home shouldn’t pass up the many benefits of buying a brand new property. While there are a number of homes... ❯❯❯
How to Find and Hire Qualified Roofers for Your Home
There are few home repair jobs quite as scary as a roofing project. Everyone knows these can be expensive and sometimes tricky, and people will often leave them to the last possible minute. Yet this procrastination can come back to bite you big time. If there are cracked or missing tiles up there water can get under your roof and into the attic, causing all sorts of mold issues and structural damage. Just as with a car repair, if you leave things too long... ❯❯❯
5 Tips for Installing Attic Insulation
When looking for remodeling jobs within your home that can give back to you in the form of reduced utility costs and saved money, you’ll be well advised to start by looking up. The attic may not be a part of the house you use that often, except when you need a place to store winter clothes or holiday decorations when not in use, but it’s a crucial piece of your home. You can take the time to install an Energy Smart HVAC system and double-check the seals... ❯❯❯
5 Tips for Building a Home With Security in Mind
Home security is a top concern for home owners everywhere, and you should be especially mindful of this issue if you’re building a new house. You have a great opportunity to eliminate possible security holes in your property when you’re having a new home built. Of course, your security will depend on your ability to spot and eliminate potential holes. Remember these tips for building a home with security in mind. Incorporate Security DoorsStrong doors... ❯❯❯
Top 5 Tips for Repairing a Leaky Roof
Keeping a roof over your head is not always an easy task. Depending on where you live, your roof may be regularly subjected to a variety of elemental dangers. Storms and temperature changes can cause significant roof damage that you may not be able to diagnose until you start noticing leaks inside. Keep your shelter strong and secure by following these tips for repairing a leaky roof. Inspect Your Roof Twice Every YearAn ounce of prevention is worth at... ❯❯❯
5 Easy and Inexpensive Ways to Improve Your Home’s Curb Appeal
For the past several weeks, have you found yourself pulling into your driveway and not being very impressed with how the outside of your house looks? If so, you’re not alone. Oftentimes, there is so much focus that we put into the interior our homes that the exterior tends to go overlooked. The good news is that there are all kinds of easy and inexpensive ways to improve the curb appeal of your home. We’ve enclosed five of them for you below: Get a new... ❯❯❯
5 Ways to Make Your Small Bathroom Look Bigger
Your bathroom is actually one of the most important rooms in your home. It must be fresh and inviting, a quiet escape from the craziness of a busy house and the non-stop activity of your daily life. It needs to be crisp and clean, with beautiful details and the least amount of clutter possible. And most crucially of all it needs to be functional. After all, this is where you’ll shower and get cleaned up for a day at the office or a night out on the town.... ❯❯❯
5 Benefits of Buiding an Energy Efficient Home
If you’re in the process of building a new house, your contractor might have mentioned to you that it’s a good idea to consider incorporating some things that could make your home more energy efficient. Although some of the suggestions will prove to be somewhat of an expensive investment on the front end, the amount of money that you will save in energy costs alone will more than make up for it in the long run. So, aside from the amount of money that you... ❯❯❯
5 Tips for Building an Energy Efficient Home
Are you in the beginning stages of building a new house? If so, we think that’s awesome. There’s nothing like having a house that is customized to suit your individual needs. That said, when it comes to building a new home, it’s important to keep in mind that you can significantly increase your property’s value by making your house an energy efficient one. Aside from the fact that it helps to preserve the environment, it can also save you quite a bit of... ❯❯❯
How to Reinvent Your Home With an Addition
Your home is your castle, and whether it’s getting too crowded thanks to a growing family, you’ve started working from home and you need a dedicated office space, or you’ve finally got the cash on hand to expand your dinky kitchen and create the gourmet setup you’ve been craving, undertaking a home addition will allow you the opportunity to reinvent your living space. But unless you happen to have a background in art and architecture, you’ve got an... ❯❯❯
Should You Repair or Replace Your Roof?
If you're lucky, you'll find a home that has a brand new roof, or at least one that has several years left on the warranty, so that you don't have to worry about any issues with outdoor elements getting in for the foreseeable future. But unfortunately, many homeowners considering a sale are not likely to shell out the money to replace their old roofing for the next inhabitant, especially if it's still passable. And even a good roof may not be able to... ❯❯❯
How to Build a Creative Custom Home
So you have always dreamed of a home of your own. You have worked extra hard and used all your education as well as intelligence to earn top dollars. Now you think that the time has to come to build that dream home, custom made to fit to your needs and ideas of luxury. Well, the best solution is to entrust the work to a dependable to custom home builder. But before that you have to take care of a few things. Select a Good Site to Build Your Home Where... ❯❯❯
How to Make a Door Opening
So you want to make a door opening into a room. But how do you go about it. Simple. A standard door opening in the UK is 916mm clear opening. This allows for a wheel chair to access the property and is a compulsory requirement. First things first, mark out an opening 916 wide on your sole and head plate ensuring that you keep everything plumb and level. Next mark out the position of your cripple studs, (two number to either side of the opening) and... ❯❯❯
3 Reasons Why You Should Buy a Modular Home
Why Buy A Modular Home? To Save Money The materials in a modular home are purchased at significant bulk rate discounts, which are passed along to you, and the assembly line method of module production saves huge amounts in labor costs when compared to on-site home construction. This can mean that the final price of your home will be many thousands of dollars less than the cost of a similar stick-built home. The shaping and cutting of all the materials... ❯❯❯
Home Building Software Can Be a Great Help
Designing a home can actually be quite a difficult and technical thing, there are always certain things that people don't feel comfortable doing by themselves and so would always want to leave in the capable hands of a professional. Most people do not bother designing their home renovation project, instead they will get a professional to help them out. Lots of people simply don't realize that they could do all of this planning by themselves and fairly... ❯❯❯
How to Get the Quality Custom Home Floor Plans You Need Without Regrets
When you have your piece of real estate, and you are ready to create your home plans, you may want to take a new approach to it. You could go to a lot of places online and find an abundance of floor plans already available. While this certainly makes it convenient for some, you may have no idea how much thought actually went into those house plans. When you really think about it, though, that may not really be the best way to go to get your own custom... ❯❯❯
What's That House Made Of?
When you're shopping around for a new home, it's important to think about long term afforability. Though most people understand this when it it comes to mortgage payments and interest rates, there are a number of other factors that are going to affect how affordable your house really is in the long run. Operating costs, community lifestyle, construction and location are just a handful of the built-in details that can make or break the bank over the years.... ❯❯❯
How to Choose a Good Builder
"Rogue builders" although in the minority definitely give the construction industry a bad name and hardly a week goes by without there being yet another TV program about the so called "Builders from Hell". With the help of hidden cameras these "Rogue Builders" are exposed in front of millions of viewers when they blatantly try to cheat customers out of their hard earned cash. So how can you protect yourself from these unsavory characters who unscrupulousl... ❯❯❯
2 Tips on Finding Trustworthy Contractors
As you may know, hiring someone else to do work on your house or home is not always a successful endeavor because many times you and a contractor may not see eye to eye on something or virtually any other negative situation can arrive especially if you hire a contractor without doing any background research on him or her. For this very reason, below we will suggest two tips that can help you find a contractor that you can trust will get the job done... ❯❯❯
