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Wood-Burning or Electric, which fireplace is the better option for you? A user friendly guide to prepare you for all your fireplace selection needs: If you’re looking to buy or build a new house, you may not have thought much about fireplaces. There are two types,...

New to Homeownership? Here's What to Expect From Your Insurance Policy When I bought my home, I had A LOT to learn, and one of those things was that my homeowner’s insurance policy doesn’t cover flood from heavy rainfall or damage from earthquakes. If you’re like me...

Hanging Out at Home: A guide to transforming your home spaces to benefit every part of your lifestyle. Have you ever found yourself wanting everything to go back to normal? I know I have, but I’ll be the first to admit that I don’t even really know what “normal” is,...

A house Is Not a Home ... YET  Not a ‘New Home’ but a New TO ME Home: Sometimes life isn’t fair. Maybe you decided to buy a home, and you really had your heart set on New Construction, but it just didn’t happen the way you had hoped. So, new plan, buy a home within...

Staying Organized Advice from one First Time Homebuyer or Builder to Another:  Most people will go through the process to buy or build a home at some point in time in their lives, and if you’ve just decided to do this for the very first time, CONGRATULATIONS! This is...

Have you ever found yourself in the middle of an obvious generation gap? Maybe you’ve even seen someone pick up a floppy disk and say, “wow, someone 3D printed the save icon” and suddenly everything felt wrong. Whether we like it or not, the concept applies to almost...

After you decided to have your home built, you may realize that you know close to nothing about architecture, and have no idea how to put what you have in mind on paper. So you start working with an architect. That’s a logical next step. You and the architect work...

     You’ve looked at SO  many houses. You’ve scoured Zillow, Realtor, and Trulia, and each house checks a lot of boxes for you but not even close to all of them. Finally, you decide to have a home built instead. Congratulations! That is exciting stuff, but should you...

After perusing Pinterest and Houzz for hours upon hours, you’ve come across multitudes of things that you’d like to incorporate in your project. Maybe you even know that you want your bedroom on the main floor, while the Kids’ bedrooms are on the second level, so you...