Home Improvement Information

How About a Jungle Mural to Put Some Swing Into Your Child?s Room?


If your child loves all different types of animals, a jungle mural is a great way to make their room a fun and enjoyable place. You might be thinking how you will be able to achieve such a task, especially if you do not have artistic talents.

Draught Proofing Your Home


This article takes a look at a number of ways of preventing or reducing draughts in your home. There are areas we look at are doors, windows and double-glazing, garage doors and finally some of the furnishings you could use to prevent draughts. Draughts are obviously caused by the cold air from outside being drawn into the house and replacing warmer air. The knock on effect of preventing draughts is a reduction in your heating bill and a warmer home. Draughts can be identified in a number of ways such as identifying obvious gaps, feeling for moving air around doors and windows and looking out for moving curtains.

An Affordable Shortcut To Designing Your Dream Home


You have likely been making mental notes for years. Every book or magazine that you read and each home that you visit has become a source for pieces to the puzzle that can become your new home. You don?t know a thing about architecture, designing or drafting but that shouldn?t stop you from taking the dream house that you have pictured in your head and making it a reality.

Buying the Right Garage Door Opener


If you have recently built a new garage you might be having a difficult time deciding on the right garage door opener. It is certainly something that seems simple at first. Once you start looking around you will find there is allot of choices. Here is a buying guide to help you along.

Are Showers Harmful to Your Health?


The last thing you would think about when you are taking a nice, refreshing shower is, "Am I jeopardizing my health"?

The Benefits of Radiant Heat, Comparison


What are the Benefits of Radiant Heating and how do they compare to other heating applications?

Top Ten Air Purifier Questions


1. Do I really need an air purifier in my home?

Clearing the Air on What to Look for in an Air Purifier


If you are dedicated to improving the indoor air quality of your home, you?re aware that there are certain steps you need to take to reduce the amount of allergens and airborne particles. Two of these, source control and ventilation, you may have already addressed. But the third, finding a good air purifier, can be confusing if you aren?t sure what to look for in this type of home appliance.

Understanding Air Purifiers


Purchasing an air purifier can be confusing, and you do get an awful lot of information thrown at you when you visit the different manufacturing websites, don?t you? How can you tell what?s what, and why do we need air filters anyway? And how do air purifiers work? Is the air really that bad? Haven?t we been breathing the same air for thousands of years?

Candle Making 101


If you'd like to try your hand at candle making, set aside two hours one day next weekend, and start with an easy project, using your old candles to test the waters. If it's instant gratification you crave, you'll see the fruits of your labor in just a couple of hours with a minimum expenditure for supplies.

Ten Things You May Not Know About Selecting Hardwood Flooring


1) Red Oak is not the only choice

Rodent Proofing Your Home


It's that time of year where rats and mice are apt to enter our homes. Lets talk a bit about their abilities and senses first.

Warm Up the Night! Patio Heaters and Fire Pits


In some areas right now, the weather is ideal for sitting outside in the evening -- the bugs have gone and the sky is clear -- but the nights are chilly. Don't let the cool evenings send you inside -- extend your outdoor living season by heating your deck or patio.

Art and Design


Maybe you?ve faced it before ? a new house with an empty room or two. This room is just crying out for some furniture. So off you go to purchase a sofa you admire - then a chair. Or perhaps you purchase a full living room set complete with tables and rugs. With delivery a few weeks off you can just picture your living room (and not surprisingly, it looks just like the showroom). The delivery day arrives and you can?t wait to cut the tags off of your new furnishings. You may have to position the sofa a few times to get it just so, but all in all, you?re pretty satisfied ? until you notice there?s no art on the wall. And so you decide to buy some art that matches the sofa. I cringe a little while I write this, but in reality that is how many of us choose art. In fact, little confession, I still have art in my house that I bought because the frames matched!

Tearing Down the House


Last year, we bought this big ol' 1887 house. We are just now coming to grips with the magnitude of the "upgrades" planned.

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