Home And Housing Archive

When you’re home shopping, it often helps to know what you want. For instance, if you want a “smart” house, an older home may not fit your needs unless it has been overhauled or unless you want to make that type of investment in it. Speaking of older homes, though, they offer a ton of benefits. Here’s a look at just a few. 1. Location …

As you start planning to move to another house, the experience becomes stressful. You have to pack your stuff, inform your kids that you are leaving, say goodbye to your friends, look for a new house and load all your stuff. This could be a long and daunting process. As a result, instead of being excited, you start feeling bad. The moment you have transferred …

With summer slowly coming to an end, it is time to begin thinking about sprucing up your interior decor. Colder weather means that you will be spending much more time inside, so you want your home to be a place that you can enjoy. This fall, modern design elements are back in fashion. This means that clean lines, sleek metals, and bold pops of color …

Moving home is stressful – there’s no escaping the fact. But partnering with the best moving company can at least help reduce some of the associated stress. When you have professional movers handling the packing, loading, transporting, and unloading of your prized possessions – you can relax in the knowledge that your items are in safe and experienced hands. So how can you choose the …

There is lots of advice out there to help people move home in a less stressful way. Hundreds of tips exist to help you find the best Washington DC movers, what to look for in packaging materials and how to find the best new utility services in your next home. But what about your pets? Only very little information is out there on how to …

Scaffolding, by its very nature, is dangerous. However, this doesn’t mean that there aren’t things you can do to make them at least marginally safer. If you manage a construction site and you are responsible for the safety of the employees, you will have to have at least some knowledge about scaffolding safety. Let’s take a look at some of the basic things to be …

You spent more than $400,000 on your beautiful home. You don’t want to ruin the carefully crafted aesthetic over a $400 TV. Outside of Apple, companies that develop consumer technology have traditionally ignored considerations like style and visual appeal. When they do consider design, it is usually geared toward the neck-beard and blue shirt crowd: in other words, basement-dwelling, male geeks. What these mavens of …

There are a lot of amazing advantages to installing a generator. If you live in a region where a natural disaster could knock out your power for multiple days at a time, having a generator is critical. Not only will it provide enough electricity for light and basic appliances, but it will also make sure your home is safe. Not only that, but it will …

There are a lot of advantages to be gained from purchasing a home. For one thing, you’re no longer throwing money away on rent – instead, every mortgage payment helps you to build equity in an asset that you can one day sell for a profit (market allowing). And the money and time you put into fixing the place up will not only help to …

There are a few reasons why buying an older home can be an appealing prospect. For one thing, older structures tend to come with a smaller price tag than their new construction counterparts, all things being equal. So buyers that want to make every dollar count will appreciate the fact that they can afford a large home in their target neighborhood, even if it was …