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When Your Shower Door Leaks: What To Do
Bathrooms and specifically showers and bathtubs are prone to leaks. Do you have a shower door that leaks? Maybe the corners of the glass enclosure leak every time you take a shower? If you answered...
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How to Buy Weatherstripping
While draft stoppers can reduce air flow at the bottom of a door or window, you probably also want to use weatherstripping because it can be installed on all four sides of exterior doors and windows....
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Outdoor Solar Lights to Enjoy All Year
Many homeowners put up lights to celebrate the year end holidays. Cities also add lights like these at Rockefeller Center in New York City. You’ve probably got a routine for when you put the lights...
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Save Money & Bubble Wrap Windows
When you realize there’s a draft coming from your windows, you might think about new windows or storm windows if you have older, wooden windows. These are the traditional solutions to reducing...
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How The Meaning of Home is Changing
Our homes have always been a sanctuary, a place where we could go to escape whatever was happening in the world. Today I fear that our lives are changing and so is the meaning of home, in more ways...
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Garage Workshop Does Double Duty
While garages are designed to hold cars, roughly half the time we use the garage for other things. Often we use the garage for storage so there isn’t enough room for the cars. Growing up in the...
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29 Ways to Stay Warm Indoors During the Winter
If you have any ideas for staying warm this winter, that belong on this list, please leave them in a comment below. ThanksThere are many things to love about winter but living in a cold house isn’t...
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Caulking Windows Inside and Outside
Caulking windows is one of the best ways to stop drafts in your home. Most homeowners associate caulking with sinks and bathtubs because you replace this caulking more often, but caulking windows is...
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2017 Home Color Trends to Inspire You
A few years ago I had trouble finding photos of kitchens with bright, bold colors. That’s no longer true as you’ll see from the amazing photos captured at the 2017 Kitchen & Bath Show, currently...
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Inside the Biggest Kitchen and Bath Home Show
Walking the home show from 9am to 5pm is exhausting. That’s why you stop to rest and network, when you find great food or fun things like this shuffle board.Have you ever wondered how new products...
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3 Family Game Night Ideas Without Technology
Do you have family night at your house? Where do you find new ideas for your family game night? For too long now we’ve been adopting more technology for all sorts of entertainment. Sadly we seem to...
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10 Amazing Kitchen Drawer Organizers
In most homes, the kitchen sees more traffic than any other room in the house. We cook and eat meals there, kids do homework there. And when we entertain, many people gravitate to where the food is …...
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Is Building a Garage Addition a Smart Investment?
Building a garage addition can be an expensive home addition. A garage addition might be cheaper than other home additions but the question is whether the value justifies the cost for space that will...
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5 Tools for Garage Organization
The garage is one of the places you toss stuff when company is about to arrive. And once out of sight, you often forget what’s missing … proving you probably didn’t need the stuff anyways. That’s why...
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Smart Home Products to Watch
We expect a new car to start, take us where we want to go and stop. That’s true most of the time but my very first “new car” was a lemon. It was a Chevrolet Vega (take a peek). To improve gas mileage,...
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Home Energy Score Required in Portland, Oregon
Most builders now give home buyers a home energy score (HERS, Home Energy Rating System) to compete with other builders. This helps buyers project their major operating costs for heating, cooling, hot...
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Handyman Repair Stories for Common Door Problems
We take our homes for granted and homeowners will often ignore door problems until they demand attention. Sometimes it’s a sticky door that can’t be locked. More often, fixing door problems is part of...
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How to Finish an Attic in Older Homes
Everyone wants more space in their home. The question is how much space do you need and what’s the best solution to create that space. You can move, put an addition on your house or finish existing...
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Wall Decor Ideas that Are New & Timeless
How we decorate our homes is changing. Maybe you haven’t updated your home in a while? You’ll enjoy these wall decor ideas from model homes visited over the last few years. They illustrate the use of...
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10 Interior Design Tips to Avoid Common Mistakes
We’ve all visited homes where the interior design felt exactly right. And we’ve all been in homes that got it all wrong. Not everyone has an eye for design, but anyone can make home a better place....
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