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Home Improvement and Remodeling

If your home has single-pane windows, they could be wasting up to 25% of your energy costs. Improve your home’s energy efficiency by replacing single-pane windows with high-performance double-pane Energy Star-rated windows. Look for windows labeled low-emissivity (low-E) or spectrally selective—they have a coating that reduces thermal heat transfer. Beaded board lends a traditional touch to kitchens and bathrooms. Cut holes in the boards or sheets for outlets, phone jacks, and other wall necessities. Be sure to finish it with a waterproof sealant if you are installing it behind or around a sink.

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The exact credit score you’ll need depends on factors like your loan type, how many units the property has and how much cash you’re taking out. Take a page from the farmhouse trend and ditch cabinet doors for an open feel in your kitchen. If you go this route, your cabinets will need to be meticulously organized, but ditching doors on overhead cabinets can really open up your kitchen.

To keep your family comfortable and energy costs low, set your fan to spin counterclockwise in the summer and clockwise in the winter.
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Adding a simple wood trim to the ceiling will draw the eye up — a classic visual trick to give the room an illusion of height. It also adds some design flair to the room; depending on your style, you can try understated plain molding or ornate three-piece molding. It’s tempting to cave to the gallery wall trend, but the more individual items you hang on walls in an already-small space, the smaller it will look.

All these simple steps are attractive to home buyers and give the impression the inside of the home will be cared for as well. …

Handyman & Home Improvement

Stick with vertical fabric prints, like stripes, to make the walls look tall. Make a dramatic impact with a weekend’s worth of work and a frameless glass shower kit, which starts at $450. Just make sure you have a second pair of hands, advises this step-by-step guide from the design junkies at Hunker. Painting won’t take more than a weekend’s worth of work but can breathe new life into a small, stale-feeling space. ’ In fact, we’ve got a neighbor, and that’s exactly what they’re doing,” Khater said. According to him, years of underbuilding following the mid-2000s housing crash have …

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For a segment on Tool Time, Tim agrees to fix the furnace is Benny’s aunt’s basement, but disaster strikes when Benny fails to tell him that there are TWO gas leaks in the house. Benny soon wears out his welcome as Tim’s house guest, as everyone struggles to repair the aunt’s home while she is out of town. At the core of the series was husband and wife squaring off against each other.

Position the screw eyes so that you slightly compress the weatherstrip when you latch the hatch. Use a similar procedure if you have a hinged door that …

Home Improvement and Remodeling

A well-made light fixture looks better, lasts longer, and gives clearer light, so inspect your fixture’s construction the way you would a piece of furniture. It’s even easier to add a new light fixture into ceilings connected to attic space, says Daryl Berg, a journeyman electrician in Longview, Washington. “Just cut the hole for the fixture and run the wires through the ceiling joists to a new circuit.”

The Taylor residence is filled with the typical odds and ends that you would expect from a series firmly entrenched in the 1990s. The set designers brought those pieces in from two …

Home Improvement and Remodeling

In this article I will explain to you how to install batt insulation or as sometimes referred to as fiberglass insulation. So as your incandescent bulbs burn out, you are thinking it may be a good time to switch to LED bulbs. LEDs have been around for a few years now and we all know basically 3 things about them.

In addition to the amount of cash you can gain, getting a cash-out refinance can come with other benefits, too.
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Aging houses are fueling a home improvement boom

Neither of these loans will require you to change the terms or interest rate of your existing mortgage. However, you’ll pay a higher interest rate than you would with a cash-out refinance, and you’ll take on an additional monthly payment. However, it’s a good idea to weigh closing costs against interest rate savings and the potential increase in value to determine if a cash-out refinance makes sense for you. If you plan to move soon or take out only a small amount of money, a cash-out refinance may not be the best option.

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