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How to Boost Your Curb Appeal with Trim Boards

Your home’s curb appeal really starts to stick out once the calendar flips from winter to spring. Everything around your home looks fresher and the day’s sunlight shines on your home longer. Trim boards around windows, doors, and corners are one way to add long...

Spring Cleaning Areas You May Be Missing

Spring signifies rebirth and starting anew. The cold of the winter has been traded for warm sunshine, flowers are blooming and grass is getting greener. And while it’s looking fresher outside, it’s a good time to start looking indoors. Around this time of year many...

Contemporary Yet Timeless Exterior Design

In remodeling, it’s important to strike a balance between past trends, what’s trending at the moment and what will look good in the future. When updating your home’s exterior there are many things a homeowner can do to improve curb appeal. A recent trend in exterior...

Add Style & Safety with Accessible Design

As we get older our bodies tend to not have the same stability and reflex as they once had. This can affect your day to day life and even simple tasks like showering have now become a possible danger. Bathrooms are high risk areas for slips and fall and it’s an...

Annoying Air Leaks In Your Home

Adequate insulation is great but it won’t be as effective if air is leaking in from other areas of your home.  You won’t just feel the result of air infiltration; you’ll see it in your heating costs. Air leaks also allow moisture, dust and allergens into your...

Q&A: How to Heat a Garage

Question I do woodwork in my attached, 2-car garage all year long, but winter is tough because it’s awfully cold out there. What’s the best and safest way to heat my garage? And should insulation be included in this process? Answer For those who use their garage like...

Ice Melt and Your Pets

Living in the Midwest we are all used to snowy winter weather and we like to take preventative measures to lessen the effect of the snow on our homes.  One of those preventative measures is spreading ice melt on our driveways, porches and walkways.  While...

Pro & Con: A Wall-Hung Toilet

Long a standard in Europe, the wall-hung toilet is quickly becoming an American favorite. The wall-hung version works the same as the traditional floor-mount model save for the water tank which is installed out of sight behind the wall. This innovative plumbing...