| Published on Oct 20, 2023
Picking the right paint color for your home’s exterior is a big decision. Unlike your interior walls, it’s more difficult and expensive to repaint your home’s siding.
An exterior paint job should last five to ten years, depending…
| Published on Oct 18, 2023
Most types of insulation products do not support mold growth. But they attract and hold the organic dust and moisture that mold will grow on. Meaning that the insulation shares the blame. Clean dry insulation is usually…
| Published on Oct 17, 2023
Wet insulation is never a good thing. Moisture trapped in insulation can reduce the R-value, damage framing, and provide a home for mold and pests. Most insulation can be dried out and reused. Some resist water. Preventing…
When couple Paul West and Michelle Bower began renovating their 1717 East London townhouse, they took on a full transformation of a basement kitchen. The kitchen they started with “wasn’t in good working order,” Paul describes, so they enlisted UK kitchen design…
Christèle and Hubert moved from Paris to the small town of Lectoure in southwestern France, taking on the restoration of an 18th-century royal tannery. Now operating as the Manufacture Royale de Lectoure, a spacious bed and breakfast, it includes a garden suite…
| Published on Oct 13, 2023
Paint is one of the easiest and least expensive ways to change the look and feel of any room. The hard part is picking the color, sheen, and paint brand.
With so many interior paint brands…
The Ohio-based homeware store, A.J, Soseby sells “everyday tools for the home that are meant to be seen.” At this time of year, shopkeepers Adam and Jonathan take that dictum quite literally by displaying their wooden brooms on the exterior of their…
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The best thing about this makeover other than that it turned out so beautiful is the price. The cost for all the furniture and accessories comes to less than $2,000.…
| Published on Oct 11, 2023
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The business of storing blankets is a risky one. If not stored properly, what was a beautiful wool throw last spring will be a moth-hole riddled rag in the fall. Enter the blanket chest (also called the “hope chest” in the American tradition),…