Soften Your Concrete Patio With a Stain on Your Floor

Concrete is an incredible, durable material that is well-worth its investment, but rarely has anyone extolled the virtue of concrete’s dull gray color in an outdoor setting. Concrete patios are practical, but concrete often looks harsh, dull and interruptible to the natural landscape. Staining your concrete can change its hue to blend in with the…

Flooring Choices that Favor the Environment – I

If you want your home to reflect the respect you have for the environment, installing a floor made of sustainable, renewable resources can make an impression on your guests and drain some of the strain that manufacturers throw into the environment. Choosing earth-friendly flooring material, dust-free equipment, and the least damaging sealants and finishes will…

Remodeling a residential kitchen

Remodeling a residential kitchen can be a large project that redesigns the entire layout and location of relevant features, or they can be smaller solutions such as replacing the flooring or having new counter tops created and installed. Often times the replacement of flooring goes hand in hand with having new counter tops, especially if…

Beautify Your Bathroom with a Residential Cleaning Service to Sell Your Home – part II

Beautify Your Bathroom with a Residential Cleaning Service to Sell Your Home – part I Before you hire your residential Orland Park cleaning service, make a detailed list of every deep cleaning job that needs to be done. Floor and ceiling vents, upper window ledges and blind slats, shower door ledges and curtains, closet shelves, grout…

Planning Your Remodeling Project

The first step to remodeling is setting up enough time in your life so you can truly dedicate yourself to a project. Be prepared to spend 5 to ten hours a week in the planning stages of your project. This can take anywhere from one week to eight, depending on how large a project it…

Renovate to Reduce, Reuse and Recycle

A home improvement project may improve your home, but the deconstruction process does nothing to improve the environment. Even if you’re not remodeling to “go green,” you can manage your renovation project to keep debris and waste to a minimum. Just a kitchen makeover can easily result in five tons of debris. A whole house…

Small Remodeling Projects At A Lower Cost

Electing to begin a residential remodeling project can entail several different design concepts from the home owner as well as any interior decorator involved in the process. One of the primary concerns associated with beginning a project of this nature is cost. Remodeling can be a very expensive adventure to get tangled up in. The majority of…

Protecting Allergies and Asthma from Home Improvement Projects

Conducting a home improvement project in the confines of a house with an allergy or asthma sufferer requires constructive pre-planning to keep potential asthma attacks and allergic reactions to a minimum. There is rarely a home-improvement or remodeling project that doesn’t involve the dust and debris that can aggravate breathing difficulties. Steps can be taken…

The Pain of a Hardwood Floor’s Accidental Stains

Grass-stained jeans often hide little legs that can run into a house, plop down on a couch that sits on a beautiful hardwood floor, and kick muddy sneakers off with a jolt that sends them sailing to the unreachable galaxies of the under-couch world. As the muddy sneakers are left forgotten on the hardwood floor,…

Doctor Up Scratches and Dents on Your Aluminum Siding

Aluminum siding can take a knocking, but it’s not immune to dents and scratches. There are a lot of self-repair technologies waiting to be discovered and mass-marketed, but self-repairing aluminum siding hasn’t made it off the drawing boards of the engineering scientists and into the hands of the average home owner. We’re still waiting for…

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