Archive for December, 2008

How To Check Your Home’s Water For Radon

Cancer:How To Check Your Home’s Water For Radon

Original post by Shelly1018

Energy Efficiency and the Stove 

Energy efficiency is always critical on the stove or in the oven. In winter, energy costs are higher and those wasted BTUs really start to add up. In the summer, heating costs may be lower, but careless cooking results in wasted heat, which fills the home and causes the cooling system to work ha…

Working From Home: Pros and Cons

For many of us, we work so much that our homes become little more than a stopping point, a rest area amoung jobs. But since the Net Revolution the avenue to working from home has been growing ever wider. considering of the daily stresses related to isolated work — commuting, traffic, regimen, expe…

Could I Get Through a Day Without Using Plastic?

Plastic has become such a part of our lives that it is getting tough to suppose going even one day without it. But in the interest of creating a challenge for ourselves, let’s give it a try. The first doubt to occur as we press our imaginations will be, “Why bother?â€? Well, considering the maki…

Shopping for Convenience by Price

All homeowners want to know that they paid the best price for project materials. When remodeling our home, we were no exception. We utilized three home improvement stores in the course of our project, and normally gravitated towards one by the others the majority of the duration. In the process, we …

Brighten Up Your Workspace: Install carport Windows

In many homes, using the carport as a parking space is actually a secondary function. Number one would be a workspace, a place to achieve the many home and auto repairs that often pile up on a daily basis. Considering all the day – particularly on weekends – that is spent in the carport, it is …

Never Underestimate the Use of Eaves

The most ridiculous thing about my house is…the blatant lack of eaves or overhang on the north side of the house. Sounds wild, I know, but I am new to the abandon. Yes I am currently spending the winter months in a Casita in the Mojave abandon in southern California. certain the average annual rai…

Do Ads Influence Your Remodeling Decisions?

A friend asked me recently where I got my home improvement ideas, and how I knew whether any given product source was reputable. She had just had a window coverings rep come to her home to give her estimates for a variety of blinds and drapery projects, and she felt a bit overwhelmed with all the op…

Happy 2009 from BROOKLYN!

Happy Holidays to everyone! I am Karen Shen, first-time house-owner, renovator and blogger. It’s tough for me to believe that we are already past the half-way mark in our super-accelerated, 4 1/2 month renovation. Kevin and I are still in shock that our house was chosen to be on TOH! We are hon…

Siding Gone Wrong

What happened here?

Don’t concern, it’s just an art installation entitled, “Inversion,� by Dan Havel and Dean Ruck. via Nick Douglas

Original post by Dean

5 Ways to Reuse Cardboard Boxes

Say you’ve finally finished unpacking your sort new house or gathering all the ribbons, giftwrap, and cardboard boxes that accumulated on your floor by the holidays. Before you can take a deep breath, you need to figure out what to do with all those cardboard boxes that are stacked as high as …

Pros and Cons of Wood Heat

At the turn of the century, roughly 90 percent of American families used wood to heat their homes. By 1970 the total was down to one percent. The energy crisis of that decade, however, revived wood heating in the American conscious. Here in the new millennium history is repeating itself as, in the …

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