Making A Home Your Family Will Love

Insight For Boosting The Security And Safety Of Your New Home

15 August 2018

Buying a new home is an exciting time and a new beginning in your life, but you want to make sure your new home is kept safe from burglars and prowlers. Although you are in a new neighborhood, there can still be threats to your home and your family's safety. Fortunately, there are some steps you can take with your new home to boost its security. Here are some tips you can use in and around your newly-purchased home to keep it, you, and your family safe.

Install Copper Rain Chains To Protect Your Home While You're On Vacation

23 May 2018

Everybody deserves a little vacation time every year, but staying away from home for a few weeks during the summer and spring could leave your roof open to damage from rain. However, installing copper rain chains can keep your roof safe. Pooling Rain Can Damage A Home When you go away on vacation, it's easy to forget about cleaning out your rain gutters. Unfortunately, this problem is likely to cause pooling rain on your roof that is difficult to manage.

The Importance of Sump Pump Maintenance & Installation

23 May 2018

If you have a basement in your home, you should also have a sump pump. If you currently do not have one, you should get one. If you do have one, you should maintain it properly. A sump pump is one of the best tools you have to keep water out of your basement, and you can hire a plumbing company to install one or help you know what types of maintenance to perform on yours.

Tips For Choosing A New Dining Set For A Small Room

30 March 2018

The dining room table is an important part of your house. It's where you entertain guests and gather for family discussions during dinner. It's where you host holiday meals that make lifetime memories. If you have a small dining room or if the dining room table needs to share space with the living room, then you'll be challenged when you go shopping at a furniture store. Here are a few tips for buying a dining room table when you don't have much space for one.

4 Techniques To Help You Achieve A Weed Free Garden

20 February 2018

As a homeowner, maintaining your yard is one of the most important ways to maintain the overall curb appeal of your home. One way to achieve this is to keep the lawn weed free, which is always easier said than done. Luckily, it can be achieved with the help of these four simple techniques: Keep the Ground Covered: Weeds thrive in areas where there is open soil. This allows weeds to push through, grow, and spread easily.

Planting And Caring For 3 Appealing Trees For Small Backyards

8 January 2018

As a homeowner, you probably already understand how good landscape design can improve your home's look and value. However, certain trees that produce shade and add color may be too large for your backyard. If you want to enhance your landscape design without making your smaller backyard area feel cramped and untidy, here are a few appealing trees to consider. Crabapple The Crabapple tree is one of the best additions for your backyard because it not only creates texture and color with its elegant flowering blooms, but some varieties also produce apples that can be enjoyable for you and your family.

Break These Habits And You Will Cook A Better BBQ

30 November 2017

If you want your barbecue to turn out perfect every time, you will want to make sure you don't make certain mistakes. Otherwise, your meat will be dry, not have the right flavor, or be too tough to easily eat. Barbecuing takes time to perfect, so you should take the time to do it right by following a barbecue grill guide. Not Keeping It Clean A great barbecue begins with a regular cleaning.

Create A Hand-Decorated Birdhouse And Feeders

25 October 2017

If you recently found garden decor birdhouses for sale to hang outdoors, you may now want to add a hand-decorated birdhouse and feeders to the mix to provide birds on your property with plenty of space to perch, rest, and eat. Complete the project below to create the new additions. Materials To make the birdhouse, you will need the following wooden birdhouse pebbles small leaves acorn tops emery cloth damp sponge towel non-toxic craft glue spool of twine scissors To make the feeders, you will need the following: