Wondering how your home can be improved for your family? Make your home cozy and inviting by selecting the right renovation projects. Here are three ways to make your home more comfortable for your entire family. 1. Add Outdoor Features Love spending time in the great outdoors? Give you and your kids an exciting space to relax and play by upgrading your backyard. If you have young children, build a customized playground that provides them with a safe place to run, jump and play. It’s also a great idea to install a deck or patio in your backyard. Add some durable outdoor furniture and you’ll have a new go-to spot…

Saloon doors are the type of entrances that offer elegance and convenience. Simply because, they can be closed and opened even though they don’t have a doorknob. As an alternative, they use spring-loaded hinges to keep them securely in position. People go through by simply pushing the doors. Whenever a person pushes the door to go in or out, the door swings then returns to its former position to close automatically. These types of saloon doors are available in half-size and full size. Saloon doors which are full-sized fill up the entrance while the smaller sized are typically half-size. They only cover the middle part of the passage. They can…

Pergola is a wonderful garden structure that can provide a center point for decor and design. Pergolas have several pillars that can create an open style roof structure. Pergolas are typically seen throughout countries of Europe and now become more common in the United States and Australia. In Sydney, Pergolas have become a popular element of public parks and residential decorative gardens. As a focal point, pergolas can easily add detail and charm to a deck, while simultaneously providing comfortable shade throughout the hottest days. In addition to the beauty, pergolas can also provide an excellent support framework for climbing plants, and they are combined with a flowering vine, it…

Magazines, books, catalogs, websites. Everywhere you turn there are sweet visions of beautiful homes. It seems so hard to replicate these dream homes into reality, especially on a tight budget. Hard, but not impossible. Sometimes the hardest part is learning to step back and take a look around you, seeing what works and what doesn’t. Do you keep items because someone gifted them to you, even though they are not your taste? Do those items fit into your vision of the home you would like to create for yourself? Learn to let go of the things you do not love. Once you have let go of the clutter, not only…

Tile Backsplashes do not seem to have more problems when compared with tile floor. They are very little wear can withstand some steam, spray of water and heat. Many homeowners are amazed with how fast they can transform the overall look of their kitchen. The adhesive fake wall tiles can stick to all smooth surfaces. Thus you can install them right over your outdated tile if you do not want to see the mess with the dirty and hard job of tile removal. You don’t even need to add some extra glue to get even more powerful stick and durability to the new peel and stick tile backsplash. If you…

Why are basements cold? Well concrete is very dense and cold year round, the earth is cold and, of course, in the winter the outside air is cold. Now heat moves from more to less. This concrete with all its thermal mass soaks up the heat from the basement and sends it outside to the ground and above grade to the cold winter air. Two other significant reasons your basement is cold are leaky single-pane windows and the edge of your floor framing system, called the rim joists which is leaky an uninsulated. A thermal image of this basement wall shows that it’s 54 degrees. It is 51 degrees so…

If you do not have any experiences in fitting bathrooms, installing a new bathroom will be something that you might want to hire a professional. If you can possibly fit a bathroom yourself you can make huge savings, because bathroom fitters are not cheap. However, by using the service of skilled bathroom fitters you will have secure feeling that the job can be done successfully. You’ll have a new bathroom to be proud of. When you are fitting the bathroom on your own make sure to plan in the right manner, drawing up diagrams and measuring until you have a very good plan you are happy with and feel optimistic…

Ronnie and Bianca’s outdated powder room needed a major facelift. But with a budget of just $ 800, how did their room go from this to this? Find out now. First step, call a pro. Start with a local bathroom remodeling company. Ronnie and Bianca contacted Maria about a Homes and Garden’s expert. This is our current vanity. So, it’s a fine, I mean it’s, There’s nothing wrong with it, it’s just nothing fancy. Yeah. The flooring is terrible. It’s just linoleum, we’ve always thought about doing more with tile. There’s a lot of easy installs. Parts of options now that are great for do- it- yourselfers. So the most…

Flooring is one of the most important design elements of a home’s interior, and hardwood can elevate the style of any room. If you’re thinking about updating your floors with hardwood, you’ll have to consider which species will bring the right color and warmth into your home. These are some of the most popular types of hardwood flooring. Oak Two common types of oak hardwood are red oak and white oak. Red oak is the most commonly used domestic species for flooring, and it’s characterized by shades of pink, red and brown in its coloring and fairly heavy grain. White oak is less pink and has more gray, brown and…