Tips For Keeping Your Home Renovation On Budget After careful consideration, you’ve decided to remodel part of your home to create a more inviting and functional space that better suits both your lifestyle and your personal style. But, before you start demolition, you need make some decisions regarding your budget. Deciding how much you’d like…
How do you use the most popular finishes in your kitchen remodel without ending up with a kitchen that looks like everyone else’s?? I recently wrote about the most popular kitchen finishes for 2016. Hardwood floors, simple white cabinetry, granite countertops and glass blacksplash tiles are the ingredients for the quintessential 2016 kitchen remodel. Here…
The 2016 Kitchen of the Year Because I spend a lot of time perusing real estate listing photos for fun, I look at A LOT of dated kitchen designs. It is very easy to tell roughly the time period in which a kitchen was installed. There are always things that date a kitchen design– be…
Your dated brick fireplace has been driving you crazy ever since you moved in. Be careful looking on Pinterest for inspiration. I have recently been pinning some inspirational fireplace surrounds, but noticed a lot of DIY makeovers that get it all wrong. Look for these 4 offending elements: 1) FIRE!! – I have seen many…
In 2014, “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing” was a bestseller in the U.S., Japan, Germany, and the U.K. selling millions of copies. Japanese Organizing guru, Marie Kondo, urged people to keep only that which “sparks joy”. Having visited Japan many years ago, I witnessed first hand…
