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Breathing Easy: An Introduction to Healthy Homes

Imagine you use a vacuum-seal bag to store your winter clothes during the spring and summer. Your clothes are tightly packed in a waterproof, dustproof package with little to no air leakage. After several months, you pull out your clothes. They may smell a little plasticky and stale, so you let...

How to Apply a Backsplash

A backsplash can instantly update your kitchen or bath with modern materials, a touch of color, and new textures, creating a customized focal point to draw the eye and tie your décor together. Adding a backsplash can be a simple job with stunning results, if you take care to apply it safely and...

Opening Up A Bearing Wall

At over 6 feet 3 inches tall, my client always felt as if he had to duck when walking through the narrow pass-through between the dining room and living room in his recently purchased retirement home. For this remodeling project, he not only wanted to expand the width of the opening to more than 8...

Choosing the Right Kitchen Cabinets

Choosing the right kitchen cabinets is essential to creating the perfect kitchen and adding value to your home. Kitchen cabinets are a long-lasting feature and they contribute the largest design element to the kitchen itself. When you walk into a kitchen the first thing you want people to notice...

Managing Interior Painting Projects: A Top 10 List of Best Practices

If you are a remodeler or builder, and include painting in the scope of your work, use these considerations from a painting contractor to help make this phase of work successful and relatively painless. 1. Avoid trade sequencing conflicts. Hand off finished spaces to your painting sub. Once the sub...

General Woodworking Knowledge

Woodworking encompasses an incredibly wide spectrum. This includes anything from making knickknacks and birdhouses, to building heirloom furniture and ornate mouldings. The one thing that is a constant across all of it is a basic knowledge of the materials. Almost everybody is familiar with naming...

Choosing Interior Paint Colors

So you’ve just renovated your house. Or, you've just moved in! But something is missing. That something is color—the homeowner’s secret weapon. Color can be used to help define interiors and create focal points in relatively featureless rooms. The trick is figuring out how to pick paint colors to...

How to Install Hardwood Flooring

The good news is that most will consider installing hardwood floors easier than installing carpet because the pieces are easier to assemble than cutting carpet and making the seams fit. While installing hardwood floors can appear easier, it’s still very important to do it right to avoid flooring...

Is it Time to Add More Attic Insulation?

So, you’ve got your new windows and doors. All of your weather-stripping is in place and your house is sealed against the elements. You may think you’re all set for the approaching cold weather. Many people think since their attics are already insulated, there’s nothing more to do upstairs. The...

Kitchen Design Trends With Staying Power

Design trends come and go each year, which makes designing a kitchen even more difficult. With a high cost and long timelines, kitchen remodels are major investments, and homeowners generally prefer that their new kitchen not go out of style one year after completion. Better Home & Gardens spoke...

What to Look For: Inspecting your Insulation and Weather Stripping

As the cold weather approaches and your furnace begins its annual duties, we often think of ways to make our homes more energy efficient. One thing that can make a big impact on energy savings at a reasonable cost is inspecting your insulation and weatherstripping. Over time, weatherstripping can...

Choosing the Right Wood for Your Project

As tempting as it may be, cost should not be the driving factor in choosing the right wood for your project. Typically, softwood such as pine and poplar are less expensive. That’s not a problem, if you’re building a simple shelf or making crown moldings. If you’re building something that requires a...

Top Home Updates

Whether you want to update your home’s look to match your personality, meet your family’s changing needs, or prepare for a property sale, there are many easy projects you can consider. These top home updates are sure to refresh your home and give you pride of ownership in this very important space....

Check Out These Eight Siding Solutions

James Hardie's Aspyre Collection is a line of luxury siding that combines the company's Reveal Panel System with its Artisan Siding to blend modern and traditional aesthetics. Siding profiles in the collection can be mitered for corners and are 5/8-inches thick, so they cast "deep, gorgeous shadow...

Benefits of Metal Roofing

The metal roof is nothing new. We’ve all seen picturesque images of old barns and farmhouses with an aesthetically weathered, corrugated metal roof. Having seen them, has it ever occurred to you that these old houses and barns have stood all this time, and the same old roof was still doing its job...

Become Your Own Contractor

Part of the pride of being a homeowner is being able to customize it just the way that you want it. Many homeowners also get additional pride from knowing that they’ve done it themselves. Clearly many jobs require the skilled hands of a professional contractor; it gives the peace of mind that the...

Guide to Buying Better Lumber

The biggest factor in determining the type and quality of wood that you’ll use for your next project is the project itself. That’s because certain varieties of wood are best suited for certain projects. For example, a hardwood with a closed grain such as maple would be an excellent choice for a...

Construction Safety Meeting Topics for the Summer

Safety training is essential for any contractor, and regular safety meetings can share important information with entire crews, departments, and staff. Opting for specialized construction safety meeting topics for the summer is a great way to refresh and update safety procedures seasonally, but...

Houzz: Islands at the Center of Most Kitchen Renovations

Large islands remain the focal point of renovated kitchens in the U.S., according to the 2020 Houzz Kitchen Trends Study. Three in five renovated kitchens feature an island, with one-third of renovating homeowners adding an island during renovations and one in five renovators upgrading an existing...

Royal Building Products Shares Several Projected Exterior Home Trends for 2020

Attention to a home's exterior is important for maximizing both resale value and enjoyment for homeowners. Taking on projects like siding, garage doors, or landscaping can be a homeowner's safest bet to get a high return on investment while renovating their homes. With an increasing amount of...

Covid-19 Update

COVID-19 Update We wanted to reach out to our wonderful customers regarding COVID-19. As with many, we’re concerned about the coronavirus and monitoring it closely. Information is changing rapidly, but we wanted to inform you about measures we’re taking our store: We are OPEN! As of now...

Advantages of Storm Doors

A storm door can stop the harsh natural elements of the weather from damaging your main door and save you money on your energy bills. Storm doors are not cheap, but they are money well spent. First there are three basic types of storm doors: full-view, ventilating, and retractable screen. Full...

Tips for Easier DIY When You Work by Yourself

For the most part, many home improvement DIY projects can be accomplished solo. For many people, there is a lot of satisfaction and peace of mind from being able to lose yourself in a project; knowing that you did it all by yourself. There are, however, times when you could just use an extra hand....

Furnace Maintenance for Winter Warmth

Labor Day has passed and so have the Dog Days of Summer. Your furnace has been hibernating for many months now and you will soon have to wake it up from its long slumber. The first frost will come with haste and before you know it you’ll have to keep your home warm and toasty for the duration of...

Tips to Improve the Air Quality in Your Home

Many think air pollution is just an outdoor issue. The truth is, indoor air quality is just as important. Perhaps even more so, when you consider the amount of time spent indoors. Poor inside air quality is due to many factors such as a lack of ventilation, chemicals present in building materials...