Managing Homes with Confidence!
USGS Hazards mapConstance has learned many renovation lessons. She’s renovated three houses and is just starting on her fourth. Here she shares her experiences so that you might avoid her mistakes. Renovation Lessons “I am a perfectionist, and that's what draws me to remodels. I keep wanting to …
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Do you know how many windows you have in your house? Probably more than you realize, so understanding more about how they're put together and common repairs can be helpful. Window glazing is a confusing because it can refer to different parts of a window, that is physical windows versus the Windows …
If you’re like most women, you wear a lot of different hats. You plan menus, know when the soccer season starts, and have your work and home schedules down to a science. (Read: Juggling Home Ownership as a Busy Professional) But if you haven’t pulled together a home maintenance schedule, there’s …
Do it yourself is all the rage as people try to save money. Most of us try to do things when we're young, because we've got more time than money. My husband and I made furniture for our first house. He built the chairs using carpentry skills he started to hone when he built a boat at age 12, and I …
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When it's cold outside and maybe chilly inside too, do you wonder what it will take to keep your house warm, and I mean really warm as if you were snuggled up by the fireplace? Perhaps your mother once said to you, "Close the door! You're heating the whole neighborhood!" That may have been your …
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Home improvements can help you control heating costs which seem to go up every year. You can't control the price of heating fuel (oil, gas or electric) but you can control how much energy you use to heat and cool your home. And here's a story about why you want to control your home's energy …
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