Category: Home Improvement

4 Tips for Painting Your Home’s Exterior

Couple lies on a floor covered in drop cloth looking at fanned out paint swatches

Most homeowners turn to professional painters when updating their home’s exterior. However, with the right know-how and proper equipment, painting your home is easy and, let’s face it, more affordable. Homeowners who want to ‘DIY’ the job should consider these 4 tips: 1. Consider the Type of Paint Painting your home requires paint that’s thick […]

What’s the Perfect Temperature for Painting Your House?

It’s time – past time, actually – to repaint your house.  But it’s the dead of winter.  Or the middle of summer.  Is it too cold/hot to do the job?  What is the perfect temperature to paint a house, anyway? Well, according to home improvement expert Danny Lipford, the maximum and minimum recommended temperatures for […]

Ways to Save Money on Your Home Remodel : DIY when you can, and when you can’t, Hire Smart

The main motivation behind a home renovation is to make your house look more beautiful, functional and comfortable. Home remodeling is a special project that needs tons of planning and sometimes a lot of money. And because you may not have the expertise to plan everything from scratch, you usually need the help of professionals. […]

Ways to Save Money on Your Home Remodel : Plan Backward

The main motivation behind a home renovation is to make your house look more beautiful, functional and comfortable. Home remodeling is a special project that needs tons of planning and sometimes a lot of money. And because you may not have the expertise to plan everything from scratch, you usually need the help of professionals. […]

Ways to Save Money on Your Home Remodel : Divide and Conquer

The main motivation behind a home renovation is to make your house look more beautiful, functional and comfortable. Home remodeling is a special project that needs tons of planning and sometimes a lot of money. And because you may not have the expertise to plan everything from scratch, you usually need the help of professionals. […]

December saw America’s Best Month for New Home Construction in 13 years

Americans are in the market to buy houses again. New home construction rose nearly 17% in December, soaring to a level not seen since before the financial crisis.  CNN reports that the US housing market continues to recover, helped by a healthy American economy, a tight labor market with modestly rising wages, low inflation and […]

How Many Refrigerators Do You Really Need?

How many refrigerators do you really need in one home?  If you asked Kim Kardashian West, she’d probably say, well, a lot. The reality star was recently showing off five more refrigerators after her kitchen tour last week. The big reveal came on Wednesday as Kardashian West, 39, was working out in her home gym.  […]

Can’t See What You’re Cooking? Here’s How To Clean Inside the Glass on an Oven Door

Cleaning the inside the double glass panes on an oven door may appear impossible, which is probably why people let their oven doors get cloudier and cloudier.  But actually, there’s a fairly simple way to get that troublesome foggy glass cleaned up.  Here’s how the experts at Today’s Homeowner suggest you get it done: How […]

Anthony Anderson joins the list of Stars Coming to ‘Extreme Makeover: Home Edition’

We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: the HGTV reboot of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition is going to be ah-maz-ing. Tarek El Moussa, Jasmine Roth, Tamara Day AND Ty Pennington?! The award-winning Jesse Tyler Ferguson is hosting; the design team is fantastic and the families being featured are incredibly deserving.  So in case […]