Would someone tell me why it is that when you’re expecting a house full of company for the holidays that some major thing will break just before the first guest arrives? Or, in my case, my kitchen faucet. (Hello, Mr. Plumber? HELP!)
Any of you out there with a furnace that started dying just before Christmas? [...]
Tags: home maintenance
Posted by Joan Reeves on Nov 20, 2009 in
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California is legislating TVs. All I can say is that I’m glad I don’t live there. I’ve got a big ass TV, and I love it. In fact, I’m going to buy another one before the year is over. So does that mean owners of flat panel TVs will be hated the way SUV owners [...]
Tags: california regulators, flat panel tv
Those autumn leaves are falling, and the winter sky is opening up and dropping rain, sleet, and snow on all your expensive patio furniture. Protect your leisure living investment with Outdoor Furniture Covers from the same company that provides Patio Covers.
EmpirePatioCovers.com
This website is a great resource of information to guide you in selecting the right [...]
Tags: Home Sweet Home, leisure living, outdoor furniture, patio
Are you like most of the other people in this country who are constantly in need of more storage space? I know I’m always saying: “If I just had a really big storage closet, my house would be perfect.” Unfortunately, you can’t build a closet onto your home, but there’s something almost as convenient:
pods [...]
Tags: Home Sweet Home, moving, storage
A few weeks ago I watched a program on one of the documentary channels about residential construction in which everything from hay bale house construction to steel I-beams were discussed. I was surprised that they didn’t include a segment on using insulated concrete forms in residential and commercial building construction.
Backstory
Insulating Concrete Forms (ICFs) have been [...]
Tags: building, business, construction, Home Sweet Home
What a summer it has been. Finally, the heat is beginning to abate, and we gardeners can head back out to our yards and give them a good inspection. Chances are your grass grew thickly during this growing season, and you might need to purchase one of the de-thatching rakes to give it a boost.
What [...]
Tags: gardening, Home Sweet Home
I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that ShopWiki UK is a treasure for shoppers. Why? Because their website makes it easy for a shopper to check out multiple thousands of stores instead of the usual 1,000. If you don’t know about them then you’re going to be pleasantly surprised by this website which [...]
Tags: blu_ray, business, home_design, home_theater, TV
Wouldn’t it be great if you could have the beauty of wood but the endurance of a manmade material? Well, you can with composite shutters from one of my favorite online retailers.
Rockbridge Composite Shutters
LarsonShutter.com is now offering state of the art Extira® in creating exterior shutters that are crafted with their quality woodworking techniques. It’s [...]
Tags: composite_shutters, exterior_shutters, home_design, home_improvement
As soon as I finish writing this, I’m going to call my Mom and tell her about this. She wrote about a childhood experience when she slept at a friends house and during the night awakened to find the bed a bed bugs mattress rather than a human one.
My Mom’s Story
I helped her write that [...]
Tags: bedbugs, book, lucille_ainsworth, memoir, memory_lane
Here’s a money saving idea for you. A lot of people aren’t aware that they can reduce their homeowner’s insurance premium by having a security system like a monitored adt alarm system.
State Of The Art
ADT monitored home alarm systems have the latest technology like Wireless Technology. No more messy cable installation and hard wired connectors. [...]
Tags: home_alarm_system, monitored_security_system