Though it’s easy to think that decorating your home for the winter is synonymous with decorating for Christmas, Hanukkah, or Kwanzaa, but the cold months that accompany the end and beginning of the year also deserve their own interior style that makes for a cozy, warm season. Transition your home after the holidays by focusing on cozy textures, […]
For a vast majority of Americans, it’s been a frigid, miserable, winter, and the power outages due to icy storms haven’t helped matters. Here are some tips to help you stay warm without breaking the bank. Banish the Drafts Stay toasty and save on energy bills by blocking drafty doors with door sweeps or door […]
Are your allergies driving you crazy this time of year? There are a whole slew of common household errors that could be upping your allergen ante. Here’s how to control the dust, mold, pollen and other contaminants that are making you sneeze. 1. Wearing Shoes Inside the House. Not only is wearing shoes indoors […]
February is a time of year to indulge in home comforts like cooking big-batch meals, reading in the afternoon and watching movies with the family. Unfortunately, things still need to get done. The experts at Houzz offer up a short list of home maintenance chores you can add to your “honey do” list that will […]
We are well and truly into the new year now, and February to many can be a real non-event month. The weather is still gloomy and rainy, if not outright snowy – and the mornings and evenings are still quite dark. It really does feels like spring is still such a long way away. As […]
For those who are physically fit, you may see shoveling snow as exercise. It uses arm, back and leg muscles and increases your heart rate and burns about 300 calories in less than an hour. But as much as it can seem like a simple, even mundane outdoor job, shoveling snow has resulted in thousands […]
Fluffy snow and sparkling icicles may make for a winter wonderland, but they can also bring on drafts, fallen tree limbs and worse. Avoid spending your winter season handling cold weather disasters with just a bit of preventative maintenance. Here are some of the important Winter Home Maintenance To-Do’s to check off your list. Keep […]
We’re officially only a few weeks into winter, but the season is already raging, with snow blanketing huge swaths of the country. Even if you live in an area that regularly experiences severe weather, dealing with a blizzard or icy conditions can prove incredibly stressful, especially if your home loses power. So what should you do? […]
More than 1 million Americans were without power Sunday afternoon as a historic winter storm barreled across large portions of the U.S. As Fox Weather reports, as of 11:30PM EST, Tennessee was the hardest-hit state, with over 256,000 customers experiencing outages. Mississippi followed with over 157,000 outages, while Louisiana reported over 123,000, according to data from PowerOutage.us. Significant outages […]
You just bought some shrubs at your home and garden center. Can you plant them now, or try to keep them healthy in the pots until Spring? Danny Lipford of Today’s Homeowner says to go ahead and plant them. Even though it’s late in the season, your shrubs will be happier in the ground than […]