Reading Time: 5 minutes For a first-time homeowner, building your own house or buying a newly constructed home has some excellent advantages. For starters, you don’t have to deal with typical resale issues like painting, refinishing scratched floors or uncovering questionable DIY repairs done by the previous owner. Here are …
Read More »How to Bring a New Look to Your Home at a Very Low Cost
Home improvement is all about bringing a change to the interior and exterior of your resident. There are several means for you to improve the way your home looks. But it all depends on your budget. Bringing A New Look You can fully renovate the rooms by adding new things, …
Read More »Carson City Home Landscaping Maintenance For Spring
Read these spring landscape maintenance guidelines, shared by a Carson City landscaping contractor, that as soon as the winter eases his cold weather on your lawn so that you can get the ground running once more heated temperatures predominate. For those of you who have extensive gardens, yard spring cleaning …
Read More »The Moneyist: My stepfather and mother pooled resources to buy a home. My mom died in 2003 and he just passed away. His kids are selling their house — am I entitled to anything?
Dear Moneyist, My mother was married to our stepfather for 20 years. She died in 2003. We’ve always had a great relationship with my stepfather and it continued until his passing a few months ago. The house that they lived in was bought with the proceeds from two homes they …
Read More »Thank You For Entering the Broan Healthiest Home on the Block Contest
Backed by his 40-year remodeling career, Danny served as the home improvement expert for CBS’s The Early Show and The Weather Channel for more than a decade. His extensive hands-on experience and understanding of the industry make him the go-to source for all things having to do with the home …
Read More »How to Prepare Your Home For Spring
With winter coming to a close, Spring is finally just around the corner. Warmer temperature, longer days, and the chance to finally enjoy being outside again. Fantastic!However, one sure fire way to make things difficult is to still be living like it’s the middle of winter when the warmer temperatures …
Read More »Twenty GORGEOUS ways to incorporate board and batten in your home
Hello there! Thanks so much for the kind comments on my latest molding project I shared earlier this week!: I’ve created many “board and batten” looks over the years and for the money and effort it’s one of the biggest bangs for your buck. And with just a bit of …
Read More »Behind-The-Scenes Improvements to Make for a Healthier, More Beautiful Home
When renovating a property, a lot of emphasis is placed on the look of the room, but that element should actually come last. Before you worry about what shade of blue you want for your living room, or what type of material you want in your new kitchen, you must …
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