Archive for February, 2009
Are Your Pipes Frozen?
You decide it is way too cold in snowy New York, so you decide to leave for the week and visit your aunt in sunny Florida. The week was great. You relaxed, sunbathed a bit, and forgot all your troubles. Well, trouble still awaits you back home, because you forgot to prevent your pipes from freezing. When you arrive home, you notice a buildup of ice on your pipes. Now what?
Ensuring Safe Drinking Water
Some consumers may think that all water coming into their home is safe to drink, but that is not always the case.
Carbon Karma: How to Reduce Your Eco-Footprint Today
Every one of us on this planet leaves an eco-footprint as we go about our daily activities. This footprint consists of the CO2 and other greenhouse gases that result from our use of transportation, energy consumption and rubbish disposal. The impact from resources consumption in our daily lives shows up in these footprints, as does a communal impact resulting from pollution and contamination caused by manufacturing, wars, and the degradation of biodiversity.
Home Safety
Did you know that over 26,000 injuries were reported in one year due to improper use of a snow shovel? Another 20,000 + injuries occurred while using a barbecue grill. And over 220,000 injuries occurred while using a ladder.
What’s In, What’s Out with Home Buyers in 2009?
What’s in, what’s out with Homebuyers illuminates what’s popular or what sours homebuyers in both the home purchase or sale transaction and home decor. Compiled annually from-the-trenches, it offers a spectrum of tips that cover reality of buying a home and design no-no’s for home sellers and buyer must-haves.
Take the Sun Home with You
The sun is hot, the water is cool, and you are taking it all in by the beach. You are enjoying your long awaited vacation. But soon, your thoughts turn back to all those home improvement projects you haven’t quite gotten around to at the house. As you continue to look up at the sun, you think of the high electric bill you’ve had this winter, and wish you could just take the sun home with you to heat the house. Well, you can (in a sense). You can use the energy from the sun to heat your home, thus solar energy.
Repairs That Help Sell Your Home
Most sellers know of some repairs that need to be made to their home, and a lot of sellers have many items on that list, but not all repairs are equal or, rather, not all home improvements rank high in the buyer’s mind.
Eco Staging
Yesterday someone asked me why, as a stager, I thought it would be important to clients or real estate agents that I understood green. It is funny, their question made me step back and I realized that the question never occurred to me because I just thought folks would automatically see the benefit. But it is an excellent question, so I’d like to answer it.
Home Staging Helps Bring Top Dollar Sale
If your house could be sold looking the way a model home does, do you think it might bring in more money? Chances are it would. That’s why home staging is a growing profession that’s rapidly changing the way homes are sold. “Staging is not decorating. Decorating is optional, staging is mandatory in order to sell the house for the most possible money in the shortest amount of time,” says home staging instructor Joanne O’Donnell.
Gardening Tools
It is still winter time, but it is not too early to start thinking about your lawn for the Spring. While you are planning the design, making an inventory of current plants, and budgeting money for the project, take a few minutes to make sure that you have the right tools for the job.
