How Homeowners Can Prevent Storm Damage
When heavy rain and gray skies make their way to an area, those pounding drops sound soothing and offer a respite from the typical e...
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Help Your Home Sell with These Tips
Help Your Home Sell: Are you considering selling your home? It can be an exciting time but also requires a considerable amount of wo...
How to Make Moving Painless
Moving to a new city, or even a new apartment in the same city can be a daunting task. You can get overwhelmed by the process of pac...
How to Furnish a Small Apartment
Furnishing a small apartment can be done well if you pay attention to proportion and details. You don’t have to go minimalist if you...
How to Extend Your Front Porch
The months which fall during spring and summer can be the perfect time to tackle outdoor projects around your home. One project, whi...
How To Simplify Your Next Renovation Project
Expensive and stressful; two words often used to describe the home renovation process. If you’re planning a home renovation pr...
How to Create a Multi-functional Basement for the Whole Family
The finished basement is a space in the house where the whole family can come together to enjoy some communal time. If you’re lookin...
Halloween Stain Removal Tips
Halloween is a scary time, in more ways than one. Think: ghosts, goblins, haunted houses, and miscellaneous STAINS. Speaking to the...
How to Dye Your Easter Eggs Naturally
Food coloring is great and all, but it’s far from your only option when it comes to decorating eggs this Easter. This year, wi...
How to Choose the Right Kitchen Sink
There are very few features in the home that are used as often, and in such a versatile manner, as the kitchen sink. Here are a few...
How to Create That Wow Factor This Holiday Season
The in-laws are staying over… the annual corporate Christmas party is next week… you have to bring appetizers to the luncheon… and y...
How to: Make Your Home Smell Like Christmas
When you enter a room in your home, what does it smell like? Does it smell clean? Does it have an odor to it? A pleasant smell is a...
How to Create a Holiday Tablescape
Dear Marc: I’ve always wanted to learn how to make those amazing Tablescapes I see in magazines and department stores. I can...
How to Safely Package and Ship Holiday Gifts
As the holiday season approaches, many of us will send our family and friends special gifts. To ensure your carefully picked out pre...
How to Personalize Charitable Gifts
Among the endless gift choices for the holidays, many of us are thinking about giving a charitable gift this year. According to a re...
How to Paint a Bathroom
Painting your bathroom is a simple way to give it a facelift without doing any major renovations. And while painting this important...
How to Fix Noisy Floors
Are your floors noisier than you are? Everybody loves the look of hardwood, but the constant creaks, moans and sighs they make when...
Home Automation and the Lutron System
Curious about home automation? Mark, from Union Lighting and Furnishings, talks to us about home automation; specifically, automated...
How to Make Your Own Rock Garden
Chose and clear out a spot Your goal is to separate the lawn from the area where your rock garden will be, so first, clear brush, un...
How to Paint Your Front Door
A relatively simple and worthwhile project to improve your home’s curb appeal, is painting your front door. Given it’s lesser surfac...
How to Choose the Right Chandelier for Your Dining Room
When it comes to illuminating your dining room, the right chandelier can do your space a major favour. In addition to providing ligh...
How to Choose the Right Faucet for Your Bathroom
So you’ve selected your tiles, determined a colour scheme, and picked the absolutely perfect mirrors for your bathroom but you...
How to Choose the Right Area Rug
You can buy a rug everywhere from the dollar store to Urban Outfitters to a marketplace in the Middle East for several thousands of...
How to Hang Curtains Correctly
Hanging curtains (properly) is not as easy as it looks! Here are some common mistakes homeowners make in the drapery department. Mos...