Homebuilding / Remodeling Guide
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HGTV’s Curb Appeal recently aired an episode featuring the renovation of a city bungalow to bring it back to its Craftsman roots.
Many Craftsman-style features were either added or changed altogether to enhance the home’s curb appeal.
One of the final touches that, as the owners put it, “..added bling that the house needed” was a copper rain chain downspout.
I marked off another (long overdue) item from my honey-do list recently.
We removed the original wallpaper in the master bathroom, repaired the drywall, primed and painted it, and replaced all of the fixtures with new ones (with the exception of plumbing fixtures). It looks 1,000% better than it did before.
If you are thinking about taking on some or all of the tasks I’ve just completed, I’ve got some great tips to help you.
Now that you have a spring cleaning list in your grasp, you might be better served with some sort of timetable, or schedule — to squeeze it all in before too much time passes. It’s not called spring cleaning for nothing you know!
I’ve got some great tips on cleaning products that have worked for us over the years, as well as an eco-friendly nod to a couple of environmentally responsible companies producing green products for you and me. (I especially like one of the marketing tag lines from Method that states…’we see ingredients that come from plants, not chemical plants.’)
Do you need a Spring cleaning guide to keep you on track? (I do.)
I’ve got some tips on how to tackle the nastiest of chores, plus a checklist — so you won’t forget some of the more important items to take care of to maintain your home.
Fiberglass, wood and steel are your main choices for residential entry doors.
The deep, rich grain of wood is very appealing to our sight and touch so it is no surprise that some of the fiberglass doors on the market today have evolved to look and feel exactly like real wood. Some are even architecturally correct with proportionate stile-and-rail configurations. (Steel doors are mostly used for industrial and commercial purposes.)
Take my photo challenge to see if you can tell the difference between fiberglass and wood entry doors.
There are many makers of quality fiberglass entry doors. The fiberglass doors that we were browsing through at our local Lowe’s happened to be made by Therma-Tru and they are one of the front-runners in the fiberglass door industry.
