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There’s a lot to recommend a bluestone walkway. The natural colors and textures look great in almost any setting. Maintenance is low. And unlike concrete pavers or brick, bluestone pavers...
Under-cabinet lighting can vastly improve the workability and appearance of your kitchen. For starters, under-cabinet lighting facilitates cooking tasks, such as chopping veggies or readi...
Many homeowners look down upon vinyl plank flooring because they equate it with the same stuff that you could buy at big-box stores in the 1990s—you know, the ugly patterns and misaligned...
It's always amazed me to see workmen sanding all the paint off a home's exterior just because some of the paint is peeling. All that work and expense, and rarely is it necessary. General...
The first thing to know about cleaning concrete? You don’t need to go easy on it. After all, it’s one of the most durable building materials used in modern construction. But with its dura...
Hurricane Sandy proved to be a trial for many of us. My wife and I were fortunate, and our home suffered no major damage. The storm did, however, test the paint job I'd recently completed...
I grew up in a split-level, the house style that dominated suburbia in the decades immediately following World War II. The middle floor—the one that "split" the upper and lower ...
The first time I heard about someone painting a wood floor I was skeptical. Would it last? Could you scrub it? And why would you do it to begin with?Some years later, my wife and I moved ...
It's not difficult to add a closet, but doing so will probably be more costly than reorganizing an existing one. So exhaust all other storage options before taking the plunge. There are s...
Recently my wife and I moved into a co-op. It’s kind of like a condo but with a few additional restrictions about what you can and can’t do without approval from the co-op board. One thin...
