Category: Home Projects & Contractors
Home Improvement: Best Bang for the Buck
Thinking of sprucing up your home? Many homeowners remodel during the spring and summer, when the weather is cooperative. But whether you plan to do structural improvements, such as replacing the roof, or cosmetic ones, like re-facing kitchen cabinets, it’s essential to consider the payback on your investment first. That’s because not all home-improvement projects.....
20 Home Safety and Comfort Tips
Making a home comfortable for everyone who lives there involves more than choosing a decorating scheme and furniture. Think of including features to the rooms that make them livable and function for everyone. Whether they’re a toddler crawling on the floor, a convalescing teenager with a soccer injury or an older adult with disability issues,.....
Wallpaper and Murals: Comeback Kids
Wallpaper is back in the spotlight. It has morphed from the dainty florals in period homes or your parents’ or grandparents’ houses to become a fresh, lively and distinctive alternative to paint, although it never disappeared completely from the scene. For years, paint simply stole the show with new colors, new finishes and new colors.....
The Range of Floor Coverings Expands
For years there seemed little variation in what home owners installed atop their subfloors—carpet went into bedrooms and on stairways, hardwood flooring was for hallways, living room, dining and family rooms, and tile was for kitchens and bathrooms. However, with so many more materials available today, thanks to new technologies, nothing is an automatic go-to.....
FORMICA: New Take on an Old Affordable Favorite
Just as other companies have done, Formica® has changed its product line-up, from new patterns and colors to different grades and even a sustainable version to meet consumer demand. For years, its laminate took a backseat to sexier granite and then quartz and quartzite. All seemed to have more sizzle and cachet. In addition, laminates.....
Professional-grade Kitchen for Amateur Price
Cooking is in. If you’re among the 72 percent of Americans who cook at home four or more nights per week, you may want to upgrade your kitchen. According to a survey conducted by Peapod and ORC International in 2016, more than a third of Americans planned to cook even more in 2017. Millennials were.....