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Interior Lighting Tips for Every Room

Let there be light! In your homes, we mean. If you’ve been keeping up with the latest studies, you know that lighting can affect everything from your sleeping patterns to your mood. All the more reason to take the lighting arrangements of every room seriously!   So, what’s the best way to light each room
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DIY Home Remodeling -5 Reasons to Say “No!”

In the age of Pinterest, YouTube, and Wikipedia, you can learn how to do just about anything online. Whether it’s building your own bookshelf or installing a new carpet, you’re bound to come across some DIY video on the Internet explaining how to get it done. But there’s a big difference between a small home-improvement
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Kitchen Remodeling – 4 Moves To Make

If your home had a heart, it would be the kitchen. So much more than a room for cooking, the kitchen is often the place where meals are shared, messes made, art projects attempted, and homework finished.   Because of this room’s importance, you should put a lot of thought into your kitchen remodeling project
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Remodeling-5 Monkey Wrenches-How to Prevent Them

No matter what anyone says, remodeling is NOT easy! Coming up with the design ideas alone can be time consuming while organizing the project itself is downright painful to the head. Even if you are remodeling a room or a house, sometimes the work criteria is the same and tasks mutual and crucially important, especially those
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Age in Place: Home Renovation Essentials

For some, a retirement community is an option, while other retirees choose to “age in place.” The oldest of the “baby boomers” started turning 65 back in 2011, and as the years have zipped by, more and more are getting ready to retire! While many are sure about how they want to spend their retirement
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Foyer Remodeling – Optimize Your Entryways

In last week’s blog post we talked about what it takes to make your home’s bathroom feel like the Spa at the Hershey Hotel! In our current blog post it’s the room in your house we want as beautiful as Caesar’s Palace but as functional as a Swiss army knife. Courtesy of the guys at
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Philadelphia Bathroom Remodeling – Standard to Spa

In this day and age, we’re all so sapped for time that we need to make every minute count. Maybe that’s why so many homeowners these days are exploring bathroom remodeling to transform what was once standard into spa-like retreats, so that even a quick shower becomes a soothing escape from day-to-day stresses. Bathroom Remodeling-
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Basement Finishing – Five Surprising Benefits

In today’s economy, many homeowners who are craving a change would rather remodel than sell their homes. After all, buying a new home is a major financial commitment, and there’s no guarantee the old one will sell anytime soon. Luckily, there’s one remodeling project that can pack an old home full of new life: let’s
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Boost Home Value – 4 simple ways!

Last week, we talked about some of the latest design trends when it comes to home remodeling. Remodeling itself can do a lot to boost home value, but the trick is to know the most efficient ways to do it. Obviously, you want the best return on your investment and time! Whether you’re a DIY
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Competitive Bids – Why You Should Get 3

When hiring a contractor for your renovation or building project a good practice is to get three competitive bids. In my opinion as an informed consumer you should not even consider a contractor to submit his proposal without seeing a certificate of the proper insurances. Liability insurance is very important but you should also require
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Detailed Proposals-The Key To A Successful Remodel

I can’t stress this enough be very wary of contractors that do not give thorough estimates. Estimates that are missing line items or don’t give full explanations of materials that will be installed, or manner in which they will be installed cannot be compared accurately. This is the reason you should always require a detailed