Home Ownership Basics: Tips For Making Your House A Home
If you’re like most people, you probably had your deck installed so you can more comfortably and conveniently spend more time outdoors throughout the year. If you didn’t install a railing on your deck, you’re missing out on a variety of benefits that your whole household should be enjoying such as:
It Provides Safety
A railing that surrounds your deck will help to ensure that safety of anyone who spends time on it throughout the year, especially when it’s wet and slippery outside. Read More»
Humans have a natural attraction to butterflies because of their beauty. Butterflies are an inspiration for poems and art. They are also useful at moving pollen between flowers. For these reasons, it is hard to resist buying a box of wildflower seed packets from the gardening store. Read on to find out how to attract butterflies to your yard with a wildflower garden.
How To Plant Your Wildflower Garden
Wildflowers are the type of flowers that is vigorous, self-reproducing, and needs little attention. Read More»
Many people stare in envy as they pass a home that features the kind of lush, green lawn that makes people want to kick off their shoes and sink their bare feet into it. If you’re one of those people, you may be telling yourself that while beautiful to look at and lovely to walk in, that sort of lawn requires spending entire weekends doing lawn chores. However, that isn’t the case. Read More»
Many people struggle with figuring out how to get the most of their personal space. New furniture, new paint, and updated wallpaper may all seem like ways to freshen the look of your home, but you should also consider thinking outside the box by allowing creatures to live inside a box. A tropical fish tank can be a valuable addition to your home for more reasons than you realize.
Below, you’ll find a guide to some of the advantages of tropical fish tanks. Read More»
Along with installing a cool roof, reducing heat gain through your windows is one of the biggest things you can do to make summer easier on your AC unit. Here are four ways to reduce window heat gain: window coatings, shade plants, awnings, and shutters.
1. Use UV-blocking window coatings
Window coatings come in many varieties now, not just the tinted ones that reduce window transparency. And if you don’t want your windows tinted because you’re worried it’ll make you look inhospitable (or for some other reason, such as because it’s against your HOA rules), you can obtain window films that allow great visibility but still reduce heat gain. Read More»
