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If you are remodeling a room in your home or building a new home, you may want to consider accenting with fused glass tiles. The extensive palate of colors available is a designer’s delight.

Each person has a unique situation and rarely does advice pass from one person to another. One must seek out someone who has experience reading and evaluating credit reports.

If you’re like most people, your basement is damp, smelly, and even wet when it rains hard. Not the type of environment you want to live in, or send your kids down to play in. But in as little as one day, you can quickly, easily & inexpensively have a dry, livable place to enjoy this Winter!

“It used to be with homes built in the 20’s 30’s, and 40’s, a sunroom would automatically be part of the floor plan. But, in recent years, builders have gotten away from including sunrooms in the floor plans... family life is different, there is not as much home time or it just didn’t fit into the budget.

It’s amazing what an additional three or four feet coupled with windows can do to transform the livability of a home. Technology has revolutionized the manner in which we go about meeting our customer’s needs.

A strategically placed sunroom can expand a living space in more ways than one. It’s an example of where the whole can be greater than the sum of the parts. If you add a sunroom, it adds very useful square footage, opens up walls and makes all of the areas more accessible and the living area more useful and fun.

A great misconception that exists is that artificial Christmas trees are environmentally friendly. The fact is, a vast majority of the artificial trees are made of plastic and other petroleum based products.

Pruning, when done correctly, can help your trees be healthier and reduce the chance of storm damage. Some tree species can only be pruned at certain times of the year to reduce the chances of disease transmission.

The chronic use of inorganic nitrate based fertilizers and pesticides have greatly harmed our urban soils. The beneficial microorganisms in our backyard soils have been lost or are only marginally present.

Stephenson Tree Care, Inc is a locally established, full service professional tree pruning, removal, and care company. Stephenson specializes in low-impact pruning and removal techniques which protect your landscaping and adjacent plantings.

Are there certain areas in your home that need an accent that will brighten things up? Do you have an area where traditional window treatments won’t work? Maybe you have a window that you would like to have a bit more privacy and still not block all the beautiful light that window provides. Stained glass could be a solution for any of these situation

The old saying ‘A family that plays together stays together’ is an operating philosophy that many of our customers subscribe to,” says Diane Kopan, Co-owner of Sport Court of Madison. Often, the courts we install become a gathering place for the family.

The biggest mistake homeowners make is obsessing on statistics about products they buy for their homes. Product performance is important; however, even the best products can be reduced to average or below average performance as a result of poor installation.

Knowing that refacing cabinets produces the new or fresh look many are seeking for about half the cost of buying new cabinets, is important to consider when determining if refacing is a viable option for you.

“…cycles of wet and dry, swelling and shrinking, cause wood to warp, split, cup and crack. All of these conditions lead to shortened wood life and expensive repairs or replacement without proper care.”

Updating your home can be fun and profitable. If you keep the following suggestions in mind, you should have a good grounding in what is and what isn’t a good update to make.

As disruptive as moving can be for parents, moving can be even more traumatic for kids. Often kids are not made part of the decision to move, and depending on their age, may not even understand it. But, if you follow these tips I suggest, you can make it go as smoothly as possible.

In the current market, the work you put into preparing your home for sale will be rewarded in the speed in which your home will sell and the sale price. Following are some basic ideas to help you prepare your home for sale.

Whether you are building new or have an existing home, walk-in-tubs can fit your needs. They can be installed in new construction or fit in the space of your old bathtub.

There are a couple of options you can look at when you have a leaking or rusting steel or cast iron bathtub. You can either buy a new replacement tub, incurring the expense of the tub and the related tear-out and repair expenses, OR you can keep your present tub and improvie it by relining it with an acrylic liner.