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If budget isn’t top of mind when planning most home improvement projects, you might be in for a bumpy ride. The bigger the project, the more you have to have a sense for how great it’ll make your home—and how much it’ll cost to get there. This is especially true if you plan to [...]
I’ve found that windows are unlikely to come off the truck in the order you need them, so I make a roadmap of the house (it’s the same diagram, maybe neatened up, I used to write my order) so I know what windows go where.
Yard Crashing! Mark & Theresa talk with Matt Blashaw, host of Yard Crashers on DIY Network, about how he ‘grew up at a lumberyard,’ building skateboard ramps as a kid, how his wife talked him into entering the DIY Network’s ‘Stud Finder’ contest, Kitchen Crash’s Alison Victoria‘s on-set almost car crash, and the ‘Ultimate Crash’ [...]
There’s been a lot of talk about the color of the year: Tangerine Tango. Gorgeous hue that has powerful, bold energy that’s showing up everywhere this year. (You can tell that I’m a fan…in fact my favorite winter coat is this hue.) But looking down the list of Pantone’s ‘Top Ten’ list of colors for [...]
It’s the dust you can’t see that concerns us the most. That’s why we practice lead safe remodeling in our clients’ homes, and in our home. Friction caused by the opening and closing of a window sash painted with lead-based paint can generate microscopic “lead dust” that, if ingested, can be harmful to your family’s [...]
As a home improvement contractor, I have installed just about everything there is to install in a house. Floors and doors, shingles and shoe molding, cabinets and crown among many other combinations of building materials and surfaces that I can rhyme or alliterate (feel free to add to my list.) What I’ve seen while working [...]
Lead paint in our homes—just the presence of it—can be dangerous, especially to our kids. And the scary thing is, it’s the dust that you don’t see that can be the biggest danger. It has been thought for many years that the primary danger caused by lead paint was in kids eating the flakes of [...]
August 21: Design tips to help sell your home, plus home improvement insider news and ideas MyFixitUpLife is giving it the old Midas Touch by turning our home improvement sweat into gold with expert advice from one of our favorite HGTV hosts and talented designer Lisa Laporta. She’ll be sharing her top tips to maxing [...]
Looking to add a splash of color to the outside of your home? Color comes from more than just for siding. When we selected new windows for our house, we decided to go for a pop of color instead of the expected white. And if you are thinking about new windows, we just learned that [...]
Listen to the show! April 17, 2010: What Happens in Vegas with Ed Del Grande. Voted one of the funniest comedians in America by Showtime TV, Ed Del Grande is a three-time Master Plumber and contractor. Starting on HGTV with shows such as Dream Builders and The Fix, Ed later went on to [...]
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