Summertime represents a season during which we are often able to kick back, relax, and spend some quality time with family and friends. Trips are taken – short and long – as we take advantage of the time afforded to us to vacation and sightsee throughout our country and beyond. Travel is fun, exciting, and a [...]
An addition to a home is done for many reasons; to add space to a home for sure, but perhaps also to add value, or to create private space for someone or something specific. There are many reasons that homeowners choose to invest in their homes with the construction of an addition, but the end result [...]
This summer, homeowners everywhere will embark upon the renovation projects that have somehow eluded them throughout the rest of the year. Using warmer, longer days to their advantage, homeowners may tear down siding, replace windows, and even put additions on to their homes. Not to be outshined by the exterior, the interior of the home will [...]
Most of us will live in more than one home in our lifetime; some of us will even live in many. These homes may differ in everything from location to style and size, but what will of course remain consistent is our presence – and what we bring in terms of personality – in these homes. [...]
Designing and outfitting a master suite is a challenging project as it will ultimately become – or should become, at any rate – a respite for the adults of the home; somewhere they can go that is completely and utterly their own. To this end, décor in a bedroom should be completely owner-centric – one-hundred percent [...]
Clocks, in many homes, are essentially only those pieces of furniture (or accessories) that are used throughout rooms with hardly any thought at all. They are the grandfather clocks in the corner of a dining room, the wall clock that decorates a hallway space and little else, and a mantel clock that sits above a fireplace. [...]
This summer, as thousands of us across the country head to the pool or the beach (the staples of American summers) there are just as many of us that are embarking upon home renovation projects. The summer weather is innocuous enough to allow us to do many outside projects – landscaping, installation of a patio or [...]
For quite a long stretch the trend of the day was something called “shabby chic” – a home décor that captured a mixture of the distressed look of antiques and the simple elegance of country farmhouse. Those who love the look of antiques may still shop the flea markets and estate sales for their one of [...]
There are those certain areas in our home that, no matter what we do to them in an effort to infuse some style and personality, are seemingly hopeless in terms of being interesting. Hallways are one of those awkward spaces that, while they do not constitute an actual place where people gather, are still large enough [...]
A fireplace is one of those elements that many homebuyers look for when they are considering particular properties. A fireplace helps heat a house in winter but looks great all year round; and better still, it provides a place around which family and friends can gather throughout the seasons. In the room in which it sits [...]