It’s fascinating how the latest paint selections from various companies are shaping design trends for homes. The diverse range of colors, from deep blacks to calming blues and earthy tones, offers something for everyone’s imagination and style preferences. Behr’s Cracked…
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Designing A Beautiful Home Made Easy by Karyn Winrich
As homeowners, we all want to have the perfect home. But over time, our homes can become outdated and in need of a little TLC. However, there are some simple and creative ways to revive and refresh your home without…
Paint Color Trends for 2023
Paint color trends over the last few years have been going back to the warm hues of the 50s. Interestingly they come from the outdoors: dark greens to reddish sands. Some ideas being shared are warm greens that create cozy…
Resin Surfacing has Become Popular Recently
Resin surfacing has become popular recently after coming over from England and Ireland. This is a process of mixed colored gravel with epoxy for driveways, paths, and patio surfaces. They provide good traction when wet, the water through (depending on…
Outdoor Grilling Station
The most common outdoor grilling station is one made of concrete or patio blocks sitting on a wood patio or wooden one. It can have an overhead roof with a patio table and chairs. You can make it as cheap…
Heating Your Garage
Maybe it is time to consider heating your garage if you do not already do. There are several types of heaters to be used in an attached or detached garage. A radiant (infrared) heater heats the objects that are near…
Sliding Barn Doors for Home
Using sliding barn doors for home décor is a big space saver. They are becoming standard in new builds or remolded homes. The door or doors slide on rollers instead of opening into the room space. Their uses come from…
Winterizing your Home
There are some easy, free, or cheap steps in winterizing your home while the weather is still warm. One is cleaning out your gutters and eaves to allow melting snow to get away from your home. A clogged eave can…
Wood Walls
If you are looking for a room update from the plain painted walls, try wood for the whole room or accent wall, or even a floor. Wood has that naturally warm feeling. Vertical boards give the allusion of height, especially…
Barn Wood
A newer trend is to take old barn wood and bring it into our homes mainly as flooring and wall textures. But what is barn wood? Like the name states, it is the old wood on barns that have weathered…
Paint Color Trends for 2021
Paint color trends for 2021 will reflect the mood in the coming year. This year’s paint trends reflect a more subdued direction mimicking nostalgia and nature. As this year was so filled with anxiety and unrest, 2021 colors reflect calm…
Wall Texture
Wall texture is a way to give a wall a 3-D effect casing shadows with light. You can get the desired effect with painting with different tools, stick-on effects, or wallpaper (not your grandmother’s wallpaper). We all know of the…
Antiques connect us to our ancestors
An antique is something older than 100 years. They connect ourselves with the past. Maybe our ancestors homesteaded and antiques connect us to our ancestors. We can say our grandmother had this or used this. So, let not store an…
Walkway
The focal point of your front yard should be your entrance into your home. The walkway to the door should be inviting. Is your sidewalk nice to walk on or is walking on the lawn safer? One way is to…
Wooden Indoor Shutters
Wooden indoors shutters may be better than traditional curtains. Shutters give more privacy than the traditional curtains and hold the cold or heat out. They last a long time and add that homey feel to any room. To clean them,…