1. Remodeling Your Home In Today's Market: Will You See A Return in Equity?
November 24, 2009
{Is this a good time to be reinvesting your hard earned money back into your home?. Why do you want to spend money in this down economy, especially when you might be trying to save in case things get worse? Why not just deal with your current kitchen? The answer to these questions and how you can...
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2. Creating An Open Feel In An Older Home
November 20, 2009
In the area that I live in, most of the homes are split levels or two story bi-levels. So needless to say, our most recent project was to update a house build in the 1950's. This house happen to be a split level and as almost all split levels from that time period, it had small to medium sized ro...
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3. Adding Recycled Materials to Your Home Improvement Project
November 09, 2009
Twenty years ago or even as short of a time as ten years ago, recycling was a smaller niche market --Only the most modern of communities were recycling on a large scale. But today, even the most "non recycling" type person has been touched by the world wide effort to help the planet. Whether you a...
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4. What to Look For When Buying Solid Wood Cabinets
November 06, 2009
Almost all cabinets these days will have solid wood face frames and doors (unless they are frameless cabinets), but where you can really judge the quality is in the other materials that are used. I have looked in many places including retail stores, close out auctions, and yard sales, but I keep fi...
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5. Solid Wood Cabinets with Plywood Sides versus Cabinets with Particle Board Sides|Plywood vs. Partic
November 06, 2009
Part way into gutting the home we were remodeling, we started the search for the perfect kitchen cabinets. After an exhausting search in several home improvement stores and just about every website I could find online, we really started to like the idea of RTA kitchen cabinets. I thought RTA was j...
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6. 1st Time Remodelers: Key Facts We Learned About Kitchen Cabinets
September 29, 2009
My wife and I were remolding our kitchen this summer and we came across some great money saving ideas for kitchen cabinets. As most people who are "do-it-yourselfers" we were looking to save money, but not sacrifice quality. We didn't have a huge budget for the kitchen renovation, so we were hopin...
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7. Facts You Must Know Before Buying Flooring
September 24, 2009
We want to focus on flooring today because it is one of the more essential components of a renovation project. Things we are going to detail range from where to buy, how to plan the floor project, and how to finish the job properly. Knowing these things will get you the floor you want and hopefull...
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8. All Wood Kitchen Cabinets: Are They a Myth?
September 23, 2009
A recent trip to the local building supply store turned into an awakening of sorts. I was in the market for new kitchen cabinets and assumed there were two types of cabinets. Pretty much all cabinets were either expensive or the complete other end – that would be cheap. Based on the prices of som...
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9. Shopping for Kitchen Cabinet Deals
September 22, 2009
Right now it is more important than ever to try to save money on home improvement projects while still adding value to your home. Buying solid wood cabinets is easy if you want to go to your local building center or cabinet store and pay retail price, but if your trying to save some money and still...
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10. Getting the Best Deals on Building Materials
September 01, 2009
In the current states of the economic and housing markets, homeowners and contractors alike are looking for more affordable products to be able to update their home or current project. Sifting through all of the mass marketing that is done by the big chain stores (like Home Depot or Lowe's) is part...
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Author: gary nealon
