Michele Lerner
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11 Smart Ways to Slash the Cost of Homeowners Insurance
When you’re shopping for a new home, your priorities are likely to be the location and features of a home more than the cost of insuring it. But if you’re budget-conscious, it’s smart to consider some of the factors that influence how much you’ll pay for homeowner’s insurance. If you already own your home, you.....
What Homebuyers Want This Year
Whether you’re in the market for a new home or are a homeowner planning to contribute to some of the $350 billion anticipated home improvement spending in 2019, a look at what consumers want can inform your choices. What people want most is storage. Regardless of the Marie Kondo craze of purging your home of.....
Future of Home Design? The New American Home 2019
While an 8,200-square-foot modern home set on a hillside overlooking the desert and the Las Vegas Strip may not be within the budget for most homebuyers, The New American Home is meant to be a prototype for future home design. For the past 36 years, the National Association of Home Builders and other sponsors have.....
The New American Remodel 2019
For the third consecutive year, the International Builders Show, sponsored by the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), included a remodeled home among its exhibit houses in an acknowledgement that almost half of NAHB members are remodelers. The International Builders Show, held this year in Las Vegas, attracts more than 80,000 people from around the.....
Think Spring, Reduce Your Winter Blues
If winter winds have you longing for spring, that doesn’t mean you have to wait to get ready for the next season. The National Association of Landscape Professionals recently announced its top lawn and landscape trends for 2019, so you can review those trends and see if you’d like to incorporate them into your outdoor.....
Creating an Art Museum in Your Home
If you are an art-lover who spends hours at a time in art museums gazing at paintings, choosing art for your home can be a challenge. How do you choose just one or two paintings when you love so many? And how do you afford to surround yourself with the quality of art that you.....