Bathroom Remodels Must-Have: Water Quality Improvement (Part I)
-Water quality is the most overlooked project in bathroom remodeling yet physicians tell us that the skin is the biggest…
Green Power – Electricity in Motion
-Green thinking can start with easy-to-do steps: How about your phone of coffee machine?! Charge your iPhone and/or iPad with Dexim…
Chemical & Pesticide Free Mosquito Control Solution
-Given today’s widespread West Nile virus infections from mosquitoes, everyone who is outdoors needs to take precautions. Go to any…
Creative Kitchen Remodels – Storage in Unexpected Places
-Spontaneous get-togethers are often the most fun. You want to host your guests with drinks and hors d’oeuvres which means…
Tasty Landscaping Ideas – Wood-Burning Pizza Ovens
-Everyone we interviewed for this post loves his/her outdoor kitchen. Those who have pizza ovens point to them as the…
Energy Efficiency from "Sun Control"
-Memo to window manufacturers – integrate “cool” ideas and do your part to create in energy efficiency.The topic of solar…
Decorator Help Needed – Residential Floor Outlets
-Building codes specify so many outlets per linear wall footage. However, furniture including tabletops and light fixtures are rarely placed…
Tree-friendly & Safe Treehouses
-This is one landscaping ideas most kids and adults love: Build an arboreal retreat. First step: Evaluate your trees. Even…
Get Plastered! A Fresh Touch to Bathroom Remodels
-The soft, silky feeling of faux plastered walls is spectacular and impossible to capture on film. Light seems to dance…
Kitchen Remodels go high-tech with "Induction Cooktops"
-What is “induction cooking”? To many cooking enthusiasts it is the best technology for cooking but many consumers are confused…
The Green side of Concrete
-Taking one look or, shall I say whiff behind a concrete mixing truck and it is clear just how much…
Inexpensive & Life Changing Drawer Solutions for Kitchen Remodels
-Sometimes we feel we don’t have enough space when in fact we do not use cabinet space nor drawer space…
Trend Setters in Home Decor
-Who are they? You would expect names of interior decorators to follow. But instead, it is Restoration Hardware – a…
Green Pipes = truly Green Building Products
-To many homeowners copper piping stands for the very best money can buy for their hot and cold water plumbing…
Bathroom Remodels Showerheads-Part II: A Touch of Luxury
-Instead of having the “normal” showerhead protruding from the wall or ceiling Kohler makes square bodysprays modules that mount flush…
Bathroom Remodels under $200 – The Showerhead for a great Start into Every Day
-Even simple home improvement projects can have great pay-off for your home and your life. Here is one: Change out…
Light Fixtures meet Art
-It is exciting to see young talent from around the world take a medium – in this case the age…
Landscaping Ideas – Dust as Plant Food
-Our ficus tree was struggling: Some leaves were yellow, others dried up and yet others had some sticky material on…
Cleaning News for your Bathroom Remodels
-So you treated yourself to a beautiful new bath complete with a frameless glass shower door and great shower fixtures.…
Green Building Products start with Driveways
-Generally speaking, the following criteria should determine the ranking of all green building products: (a) Type of material content, (b)…
Time to "un-smog" your Home?
-Fact: Your house is effectively enveloped by electricity at all times – not just when you plug in the hair…
Pools and Spas – Natural versus Chemical or "Our Dog Knows"
-Most pools still have chlorinated systems installed. I personally wonder why. We had a fancy newly built chlorinated swimming pool.…
Painting Project 101 – Fun for the Whole Family
-Everyone can do this fun home improvement project in a weekend: Paint a chalkboard to the side of a cabinet,…
Kitchen Remodels – Commercial-style cook tops – What you really need to know
-For the last two decades commercial-looking gas ranges, stove tops and free-standing stoves have been the rage. Magazines are full…
