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6 Ways to Make Your Bedroom Ideal for Sleep
These days we need our immune system to be in the best shape it’s ever been, to give ourselves and those we love a better chance against COVID-19. That is a huge challenge, given how hectic most of our days are. The good thing, though, is that COVID has made us more...
How to Organize Your Pantry (and Keep Clutter Away, for Good)
With spring cleaning no doubt a part of most households’ to-do list, can pantry organization be far behind? Organizing a pantry can be a huge challenge, especially if you shop for a big family. Put only the barest amount of effort into it and you may just find...
10 Ways Vinegar Helps You Save Up on and Speed Up Your Spring Cleaning
Spring is finally here, and that means spring cleaning for most of us—that process of thorough post-winter cleaning and decluttering that gives us not only a spotless, shiny home but also a higher level of well-being. How’s your spring cleaning game? Well versed...
7 Awkward Spaces in Your Home and How You Can Transform Them
Ever look around your home, which you have put effort and money into so it looks and feels like home—with style to spare—and find yourself admitting that some parts just aren’t working, yet? You’re not alone. Interior spaces can be challenging still even after the...
8 Ways to Achieve a Beautiful and Practical Hallway Design
The hallway—it’s the first thing guests see when they enter our home. Heck, it’s the first thing we see when we walk in the door. While our hallway may not be seeing a lot of visitors these days, that doesn’t mean we...
How to Buy the Right Sofa Online
There’s something to be said about buying furniture from the comfort of your home. No need to put some chores on hold to drive out to a store. Though, to be fair, how can you not savor the feel of a piece of fine craftsmanship beneath your hands? And what about the...
Freshen Up Your Home with the Color Trends for 2021
The arrival of a new year almost unfailingly motivates homeowners to give their homes a makeover. They can go for a major renovation and redecoration (including repainting and/or repapering), or a minor update like introducing a new pop of color or two, among other...
4 Reasons to Adopt the Japanese Year-End Home Cleaning Ritual Osoji
The Japanese do their massive home cleaning at the end of the year—which makes perfect sense in the context of starting fresh with a new year. It’s called osoji (“the big clean-up”), and it’s done to purify the home, to get rid of all traces of trash and useless...
7 Practices That Help You Sell Your House During the Winter
The common belief seems to be that winter is not a great time to list your house: People would be more focused on the holidays and would have little time to shop for a house; and the weather can pose a challenge for repairs and renovations as well as for home tours....
Which Kitchen Upgrades Help Ensure a Higher Resale Value for Your Home?
(This is the second article in our article series on how to increase your home’s resale value.) Real estate experts swear by a kitchen upgrade as the best way to increase a home’s value. In one of the sample computations in Remodeling magazine’s Cost vs. Value Report...
6 Ways to Boost Your Curb Appeal
You never get a second chance to make a first impression. So goes a popular expression. We usually form our impression of people within the first few seconds of meeting them, so it's just as likely we do the same with houses. Which is why you can never overlook curb...
Which Textures Will Make You Feel the Warmth of Home in Autumn?
Just as colors like pumpkin orange, rich browns, deep or fiery reds, and butterscotch yellows can hit you with a healthy dose of warmth and make you want to snuggle with a cup of choco or warm apple cider after being out in the nippy air, so too can things that feel...
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