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Holiday Decorating Tips

The holidays can be exciting, exhausting and overwhelming all at once. We put a lot of pressure on ourselves to decorate, cook and entertain friends and family so … I hope you’re also setting aside time to enjoy the holidays yourself. This article offers ideas on how you can save time putting up holiday decorations, [...]

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Dining Room Ready for the Holidays?

Are you ready for the holidays? Are you hoping to install the new light fixtures you bought 2 years ago, and wondering where exactly you hid them? Go ahead and laugh as we hear this all the time from our customers, that they bought something and somehow it never got installed. Light fixtures, a new [...]

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Festive Holiday Table Settings

A friend and decorator was visiting New York City so I asked her to take some holiday photos for me. It’s fun writing about all the things we need to do to take care of our homes, but it’s also important to take time to enjoy our homes. Here are some fun photos along with [...]

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Beautiful Kitchens All Year Long

Kitchens are the most important room in any house. When we design kitchens though, we focus on the activities that take place in the kitchen, from cooking and baking to family meals, homework and bill paying. During the holidays we love decorating our homes. It’s the time of year where we do more entertaining at [...]

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Getting Organized in the Kitchen

We spend more time in the kitchen around the holidays. Whether we’re baking cookies or preparing a Thanksgiving feast for our family, there’s a lot that happens in the kitchen this time of year. With that in mind … and knowing my significant other will ask for some help getting organized, here are some fun [...]

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Mailboxes & Flower Boxes for Curbside Appeal

When you think about doing things around your home, they often feel big, overwhelming and expensive. That’s why we wanted to share ideas for some of the smaller features you can add to your home that won’t break the bank and because a picture is worth a thousand words, we’ll share our ideas with photos. [...]

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What is Curb Appeal … Exactly?

Sometimes we use terminology common to our industry but not well understood by others. Curb appeal is most commonly used by realtors to refer to the  first impression a home makes from the road or driveway, an appearance that says your home is clean and well maintained, that motivates a prospective buyer to study your [...]

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Paint Color: Help Finding that Perfect Color

Color can be a huge challenge for home owners. You might know that you like warm (orange, red) colors more than cool (green, blue) colors but there are thousands of choices in any one of these colors, i.e. each paint brand has more than 200 whites to pick from so how do you decide?
Sometimes you’re [...]

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