Here are some ways consumers can prep their new home for maximum energy efficiency.
4 Decorating Blunders That Could Spook Your HOA This Halloween Season
By Rachel Morrow With Halloween quickly approaching, many homeowners are getting into the spirit by decorating their homes with festive décor. After all, as a homeowner you can do whatever you want, right? In some cases, yes, but if your home is a part of a community that belongs to a homeowners association, you may …
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What Lies Beneath: Radiant Floor Heating in New Homes
By Vince Font A home’s floor plan is crucial to its overall appeal. But what’s placed directly beneath that floor can have an even more significant appeal, especially if it has the added potential of offering comfort and energy savings. Radiant floor heating is one heating technology that’s becoming more popular and working its way …
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School-Proofing Your Home
By Vickie Ferguson You’ve probably already started seeing the back-to-school advertisements. You may even be preparing for meet-the-teacher night. Whether you like it or not, the relaxed summer days of staying up late and sleeping in each morning are coming to a close. School is about to start again. The onset of a new school …
Five Tips to Sell Your Current Home—and Move to Your New Home—Faster
By Kevin Oakley For many new home buyers, a key step in building your dream home is selling your current home. As you consider the best time to sell your existing home, many real estate professionals will tell you that summer is one of the hottest seasons for home sales (pun intended). You may also hear that spring is …
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Gardening Ideas for a Cleaner, Cheaper & Greener Backyard
Simple, affordable and fun ways to add an herb or vegetable garden to your backyard — or even a potager, if you’re feeling adventourous.
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Choosing the Right Flat-Screen TV for Your New Home
By Andrew Hill Television sets have made incredible strides in technology since the first commercial TV sets were sold. In 1927, Philo Farnsworth debuted the world’s first working television, but the boom in TV sales came after World War II with black and white sets. The first commercial color TV broadcast was an episode of …
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Simple, Easy Ways to Maximize Your Storage Space
Let’s face it, for many homeowners, it seems we never have quite as much storage (and overall) space as we’d like. Wish as we might, even as our families grow, our homes stay the same size–until we move to new and larger quarters. What can you do to make the most of smaller spaces? Here are …
New Home Buying: Budgeting for Furniture and Tools
Furniture and tools are necessary purchases for new homeowners, but they can add up. Here are a few tips to minimize those costs.