home improvement: 10 Home Improvement Tips for Your Pittsburg, CA Home
- 10/17/19 09:52 PM
Pittsburg CA – Home improvement projects can not only be fun, but they add value to your home as well. Whether you’ve decided to add improvements to your home before it goes on the market or is planning improvements to your new home, here are some creative home improvement ways to add sparkle. Thinking of Selling Your Pittsburg CA Home? Click Here For A Free Market Analysis of Your Home. 1. Window TreatmentsBecause windows are such a focal point, it pays to decorate them. It’s amazing what a simple curtain or valance can do to change the atmosphere of a room. Your bedroom can be transformed (2 comments)
home improvement: The Life Expectancy of Home Appliances
- 10/15/19 08:49 PM
Concord CA – Whether you’re shopping for a home or already own one, knowing the current age of the home appliances is important. Like us, they have an average life span. Unlike us, they can be replaced. But it’s pricey to do so. The experts at Consumer Reports recommend that you replace home appliances if the cost to repair them is more than half the price of a new one. While that’s a good rule of thumb, it’s something you can put off with care and proper maintenance of your home appliances. As a bonus, your home appliances won’t become energy hogs. Thinking of Selling (4 comments)
home improvement: How To Get Rid Of Stink Bugs
- 10/07/19 10:17 PM
Pittsburg CA – If you haven’t met your fair share of stink bugs this year, brace yourself. Although stink bug season is officially from March through September, the cooler it gets outdoors, the bigger the problem. Brown marmorated stink bugs infest both the interior of homes and the garden. In the garden, they feed on fruit and vegetable crops, causing spots and decay. They prefer to overwinter indoors, in homes. While they aren’t considered harmful to humans or to the home, they create lots of noise and, if bothered, quite a stink. Once inside the home, they are a challenge to control. Thinking of Selling Your Pittsburg (2 comments)
home improvement: Tips To Getting Rid Of Kitchen Clutter
- 10/06/19 08:35 PM
Antioch CA – The junk drawer. Love it or hate it, most of us have one and most of the time it’s in the kitchen. NPR’s Linton Weeks says they serve “as a Rorschachian reflection of your life.” That’s rather distressing, isn’t it? While the garage is the most cluttered room in the house, according to a Moen® Consumer and Market Insights Group survey of homeowners, the kitchen comes in second, tied with the home office. Surveyed homeowners complained of mail cluttering the countertops and small electrical appliances hanging around, taking up space. Thinking of Selling Your Antioch CA Home? Click Here For A Free Market Analysis (2 comments)
home improvement: Bring Back The Beauty Of Your Vintage 1930s Hardwood Floor
- 10/03/19 10:39 PM
Pittsburg CA – The popularity of hardwood flooring has varied over the centuries. The replacement for the packed dirt flooring of the Colonial Era, hardwood floors were life-changers. High-end homes had tongue-and-groove flooring while more modest homes’ hardwood floors were laid by nailing the planks directly to the joists. Fast forward to the post World War II era, when the high cost of carpet could be financed with the home, and carpet soared in popularity. Hardwood flooring companies struggled. Today’s home buyers are back on the hardwood-flooring wheel, demanding it as a replacement for carpet. Thinking of Selling Your Pittsburg CA Home? Click Here For A Free Market (1 comments)
home improvement: Spring And Summer Garden Tips For Condo Dwellers
- 10/01/19 09:04 PM
Pittsburg CA – There’s no need to pity your condo-dwelling, green thumber friends – where there is even a tiny space, there are gardening possibilities. Whether you call that spot a balcony, lanai, terrace or veranda, it can be transformed into a spring garden showcase in just a few easy steps. Thinking of Buying An Antioch CA Home? Click Here For A Free Market Analysis of Your Home. Keep track of the light (and heat) Take a few days to make note of where the sunlight falls on your balcony, and the length of time each spot remains sunny. You may have wide swaths that remain in (1 comments)
home improvement: Quick Fixes For A Stinky Home
- 09/30/19 09:31 PM
Inured. Pittsburg CA – That’s just a fancy way of explaining how we humans can, over time, become accustomed to something unpleasant. If you’ve ever lived near railroad tracks or under the flight path of a local airport you know what we’re talking about. At first, the noise was torture. After a time, however, you may have barely noticed it. It’s the same with smells. We become accustomed to the odors in our home and it’s not until either someone very honest comes to visit or we return home after some time away that we realize that we have a stinky home. While pets and (2 comments)
home improvement: 7 Plants That Provide Summer Color in a Shade Garden
- 09/24/19 08:20 PM
Antioch CA – Shade gardens for your Antioch CA homes can be such a pleasant surprise. In that spot where you think nothing will grow, there are plants that will not only grow, but flower and thrive as well. Depending upon climate, there are tropicals, perennials and annuals that will flower throughout the summer in a shady location. Thinking of Buying An Antioch CA Home? Click Here For A Free Market Analysis of Your Home. AstilbeIf you are looking for plumes of color for that shady spot in your Antioch CA home, consider planting astilbe (Astilbe x arendsii). These perennials are quite easy to grow and (0 comments)
home improvement: Fun and Simple Ideas for Decluttering Your Home in Antioch CA
- 09/22/19 10:52 PM
Antioch CA – Decluttering makes you feel good. Sure, your home in Antioch CA looks better and it’s more organized, but the best reward of all may be the mental relief and sense of accomplishment you get from living simply. Decluttering is, among other things, a process of unburdening and self-renewal. Your surroundings look better, so you feel better. There’s science to back this up – studies have shown a correlation between clutter and stress. If you’ve been putting it off, the good news is that decluttering can be an easy, even enjoyable, process. Here are a few tips to help get you started: Thinking of Selling Your Antioch (0 comments)
home improvement: Tips on Creating the Perfect Mudroom
- 09/18/19 11:08 PM
Pittsburg CA – Folks who live in areas of the country with wild winter weather use a vocabulary that sounds like a foreign language to those who live in more mild climes. One of the words not in the Hawaiian’s or Floridian’s vocabulary is “mudroom.” But, whether it’s an entryway retrofitted in the winter to hold wet, muddy shoes or an entire room devoted to winter over-clothes, boots and recreational equipment, a mudroom is something many Americans can’t fathom living without. After all, it helps keep the rest of the home clean. That’s the beauty of the mudroom. Located at a home’s entry point, it’s (1 comments)
home improvement: Redecorate Your Master Bedroom on a Budget
- 09/15/19 09:20 PM
It doesn’t take a huge bank account to redecorate your master bedroom from feeling like your college dorm room to the sanctuary from a noisy world that it should be. And, it doesn’t take a lot of time either. Broken into chunks, you can redecorate your master bedroom over the course of one, two or three weekends, depending on how much time you want to devote during each session. Here are some tips to get you started; tips that won’t break the bank. Come up with a vision for spaceWhat does your ideal bedroom look like? Is it a quiet place in which to (2 comments)
home improvement: 5 Mistakes to Avoid When Hiring a Plumber
- 09/05/19 09:27 PM
From $45 to $200 per hour. That’s what you’ll pay on average when hiring a plumber, according to HomeAdvisor.com’s True Cost Guide. But, that’s for small tasks, such as faucet, toilet or sink repair. Need a water heater installed? That will run you around $1,000, on average, nationwide. Not all plumbers are alike, with the same amount of experience and the same skills. Assuming they are is probably the most common mistake consumers make. Let’s take a look at five additional mistakes that homeowners commonly make when hiring a plumber. 1. Choosing “cheap” overqualifiedGo to any local social media platform, such as Facebook neighborhood groups and NextDoor, (0 comments)
home improvement: Getting Your Pittsburg CA Home Ready for Fall and Winter
- 09/01/19 09:47 PM
September 23 is the first day of fall for 2019, which doesn’t give you a whole lot of time getting your Pittsburg CA home ready. But, if you do just one or two fall home maintenance tasks each weekend, you’ll have it done before you know it. Below are some tips on getting your Pittsburg CA home ready for fall and winter. It’s Home Fire SeasonAlmost 40 percent of deaths in home fires occur in homes without smoke alarms, according to the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA). Having smoke alarms with dead batteries is just as bad, by the way, as not having them (0 comments)
home improvement: What To Do In The Fall Garden When Selling Your Antioch CA Home
- 08/29/19 12:00 AM
With fall just around the corner, many new gardeners naturally assume that the gardening season is over. It doesn’t have to be; many vegetable crops do best when planted out in fall (fresh lettuce for your salads!). If you are strictly an ornamental gardener, however, fall typically signals the end of active gardening until next spring. If your fall garden wasn’t all you’d hoped it would be, take steps now to ensure that your fall garden is beautiful when selling your Antioch CA home. Evict Pests It seems counterintuitive, right? What with fall coming and all the junk that is bound to blow in, why (2 comments)
The word “asbestos” strikes terror into the ears of homeowners. It sounds like a big problem, and it often is. But, how do you know if it’s an issue in your home? What should you do about it? And can it affect the sale of your property? Find out the important facts below to help you know if your Antioch, CA home has this. What Is Asbestos?Although you may think asbestos was cooked up in a laboratory, it wasn’t. It’s a naturally occurring mineral that’s still quarried in some countries. When it was found to have insulator and fire-retardant properties around the 1940s, asbestos was put (0 comments)