12 Great New Year’s Resolutions — For Your Home
We all make resolutions for ourselves — lose weight, spend more time with family, grow our hair longer, wear it shorter. However, few make resolutions for our biggest asset — our home. Here are 12 great ideas — one per month — for what homeowners […]

Home Security During the Holidays
Five Tips for Securing Your Home During The Holidays
* Make sure your tree and electrical decorations are safe. Check for shorted out bulbs and exposed wires. Have an electrician do a run through for extra safety.
* Hire a housesitter. You can even get someone you know for free. If you’re taking […]

People who have only just started celebrating Christmas — either because they have married someone who grew up celebrating Christmas, because they have chosen to celebrate Christmas “suddenly” of their own accord, or because they’ve chosen the path of least resistance in school, offices and communities, don’t have the family history of Christmas with the […]

Make A Great First Impression
Whether you’re a man or woman, your first date presents an opportunity that will never come again—the chance to make a good first impression.  Ladies—wear a dress that hugs your curves in all the right places, but still leaves a little to the imagination (bare the legs or the breasts, not […]

I’ve made a new discovery at Home Depot. Let me say, first, that I’m the queen of aesthetic temporary fixes. My friend, Michelle, is still laughing at my circa 1989 hole in the drywall repair tactic. I bought a woven area rug and tacked it to the wall until it was fixed some time later.
I […]

Game rooms have replaced kitchens as the center of the home, and the reason is that the family is now engaging in more casual repartee and interactions on a more frequent basis. The game room is the place where family watches television, does homework, hangs out, and plays games — together.
The popularity of the […]

The newest trend in home bathroom design for 2007 is the urinal. Believe it or not, a urinal, separate from the toilet, is the thing to have. Forget about big, flat screen TVs — if you’re really wanting to be ahead of the curve, make your bathroom man-friendly. Equip yours with a urinal.
What this means […]

With Valentine’s Day quickly approaching, if you don’t have to head off to a romantic inn — you can still add more romance to your home. Here are some of my favorite ideas for sprucing up you home for your Special Valentine and your kids:
1. Put some red, pink and white flowers in vases around […]

A person really should consider a thorough mental health evaluation when they start thinking about lampshades–A LOT. Since we’ve already established the fact that I may have an issue or two, I don’t mind fessing up to this lampshade thing. But let me explain…
Around the first of the year when I was considering resolutions–which I usually don’t […]

Your home is extremely important if you’re dating. Men love homes that are comfortable and make them want to spend more time there. It’s almost like a preview of things to come. And women love a man who’s got a sense of home and style, when they’re dating.
That’s where sectional sofas come in. There […]