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What If I Regret My Floor Plan? How to Get It Right Before It's Too Late
Planning a home layout is exciting, but second-guessing decisions after construction starts can be stressful. read more...
By KC Custom Builders | Apr-01-2025

Are Old HVAC Systems Costing Your Business? Here’s What You Need to Know
Managing a facility comes with its fair share of challenges, and maintenance costs can quickly add up. One expense that often gets overlooked is an aging HVAC system. read more...
By H & H Commercial Services Inc. | Apr-01-2025

Heat Pump vs Air Conditioner: A Comprehensive Comparison for Home Comfort
When deciding on a system to maintain an ideal indoor climate, homeowners often compare heat pumps and air conditioners. read more...
By H & H Heating And Air Conditioning Inc. | Apr-01-2025

Protect Your Harvest: The Hidden Impact of Birds and the Power of Bird Netting
Birds can pose a significant threat to your garden and orchard, often causing extensive damage to produce without immediate detection. read more...
By Danny Woodhams | Mar-29-2025

Are Electric Driveway Gates Worth It? Cost vs. Benefits
Electric driveway gates have become increasingly popular for homeowners and businesses looking to enhance security and convenience. read more...
By Gatemaster Australia | Mar-28-2025

819 Information About Plant Nutrients
It is essential to feed plants regularly but too little food or food in excessive amounts is not advisable. Advising on fertilizing plants is a challenging job. There are many factors that affect the fertilization like soil types, climatic conditions, existing nutrients etc. read more...
By Benedict Yosarian | Aug-03-2009

835 Create A Great Garden With Right Plant Nutrients!
A well maintained green lawn can enhance the beauty of any house. However for many people maintaining and keeping the lawn in a proper shape is a tough task indeed. read more...
By Benedict Yosarian | Aug-03-2009

748 Benefits Of Decorative Concrete Floor
If you are trying to make your house a bit different from the commonplace, the decorative concrete is the ideal choice. In fact, it has come in the trends in recent times and the advantages that it has, have made it quite popular. read more...
By Benedict Yosarian | Aug-03-2009

759 Spruce Up Your Home Decor
When you think about the remodeling of the home floor, chipped tile, carpets and linoleum are the options that come to your mind. But, they are commonplace and a creative mind will wish if there was some other option to choose. read more...
By Benedict Yosarian | Aug-03-2009

781 Benefits of Decorative Concrete
Can the concrete have an aesthetic value? Well, that seemed to be a weird thought even a few years back. But now, with the decorative concrete, it has become a very possible idea. Basically, this is a thin coat of concrete on the unattractive concrete surfaces to lend it an impressive look. read more...
By Benedict Yosarian | Aug-03-2009

1027 Important safety tips for parents
The arrival of a baby is usually well planned,so we need to be careful of the furniture we choose and make the house kid-friendly. Today we can get furniture that is both safe for children and fashionable. These simple tips we’ll give you, can help with making a safe home for your children. read more...
By Calin S Dragomir | Aug-16-2009

1608 Tips for cleaning furniture
Everything in our home must be in the best possible shape. Working on your furniture's appearance shouldn't be a unpleasant and time consuming duty. Expensive or cheap you'll want it to simply look great as years pass by. You just need to follow some easy but regular rules, in order to preserve your furniture looking beautiful for years. read more...
By Calin S Dragomir | Aug-03-2009

1754 Getting Married: The Traditional Filipino Way
Most of the marriages undergo special ceremonies which vary around the globe. Getting married the Filipino way is not only a mere ceremony but a solemn vow. This article guides how special the traditional wedding in the Philippines is. read more...
By Timothy Spencer | Aug-02-2009

909 It’s Time to Give Mom Something Special
Every second Sunday of May, we get to celebrate Mother’s day. This is the time to show our huge gratitude to our moms. Giving them tokens such as flowers will definitely make them feel appreciated. This article cites a brief history of Mother’s day and ways to show your appreciation to your mom. read more...
By Timothy Spencer | Aug-02-2009

1611 Place a slight shade in Your Window Boxes
Windows to the garden at home. Through the windows you can often see beautiful flowers and plants farther from home, but May not be able to see the plantations near the house. It is up to the installation of window boxes planter. These are beauties that always are able to have a nice view. That may be the one you placed. read more...
By Manseo | Jul-31-2009

1871 Most Exposure And Low Cost By Window Box Planters
Back in my twenties, I rented a small house picturesque San Francisco, a short distance from the beach. The house was simple and clear with a small front yard. There were only a beautiful pink daisy-like perennials and lots more, it cinerary. read more...
By Manseo | Jul-31-2009

1412 Decorate Your Home By Wooden Window Planter Boxes
Imagine opening your window to let in some rays in the morning and be greeted by a punch of color and scent of summer. Or you might prefer to have fresh basil and oregano at your fingertips while you make gazpacho vegetable garden. You only need a few wooden planters window boxes filled with bright flowers or fresh herbs. read more...
By Manseo | Jul-31-2009

1441 Decide the Reason of Your Box Garden Window
Let's be honest, window gardens are still something of a rarity in America, unless of course you live in houses or brown hoity-toity neighborhoods. However, that’s not the case for nearly all of the rest of the world. In places like Japan, where the terrain is steep and uninhabitable, causing populations to crowd in small areas of the window gardens offer aesthetic and spiritual relief. read more...
By Manseo | Jul-31-2009

2337 An Insider’s Guide to Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica
Welcome to the first in a series of pieces about Manuel Antonio, the emerald of Costa Rica. Its endless lush greens come in hues you’ve never seen. I first came here 20 years ago as a freelance wildlife photographer. Primates are my specialty and Costa Rica has 4 species. read more...
By Evelyn Gallardo | Jul-31-2009

1228 Do people leave garden furniture outside all year round?
This article provides information about why people leave their garden furniture outside all year round. read more...
By mike smith | Jul-30-2009

1604 Hydroponic Gardening for Dummies
For those who may not have enough space in the backyard for a conventional garden, hydroponic gardening may be the answer to the problem. This is another type of indoor garden that originally made use of water as the medium for growth and cultivation of plants. read more...
By Benedict Yossarian | Jul-29-2009

914 Everything There is to Know About Tomato Gardening
A lot of fruit and vegetable gardeners, both hobbyists and professionals alike, have in their garden some type of tomato species. The health benefits of tomatoes are countless. read more...
By Benedict Yossarian | Jul-29-2009

896 Creative Gardening: Hillside Landscaping Alternatives
When it comes to gardening, hillside landscaping is probably one of the most difficult tasks landscapers can ever be faced with. This is because soil erosion is a big issue when it comes to this type of landscaping and the soil’s ability to hold the water necessary for plant growth becomes a challenge. read more...
By Benedict Yossarian | Jul-29-2009

843 Gardening Secrets Revealed: Black Gold
A lot of people wonder how professional landscapers and gardeners are able to come up with such beautiful works of arts in the gardens they create. Sure they may have been gifted with a greener thumb and they’ve been doing what they’re doing for so long that they already know the tricks of the trade. read more...
By Benedict Yossarian | Jul-29-2009

781 Gardening Made Easy: Picking the Right Garden Hose
Because of all the technological advancements in the field of gardening, it is easy to get confused with what tools one might need in order to develop a beautiful and blossoming garden. read more...
By Benedict Yossarian | Jul-29-2009

779 Gardening 101: Creating a Garden Paradise
Gardening is definitely one of the most enjoyable hobbies in the world. A lot of people take it up because of the joy and sense of accomplishment that is brought about by a beautiful and well-tended garden. read more...
By Benedict Yossarian | Jul-29-2009

820 Three Gardening Tools People Should Never Live Without
Amidst the numerous choices available, a lot of people have selected gardening as their lifelong hobby. One of the reasons behind this is because a well-groomed and beautifully cultivated garden brings a sense of relaxation for not only the gardener, but for family members and visitors as well. read more...
By Benedict Yossarian | Jul-29-2009

831 Greenhouse Gardening for Orchids: Producing the Most Beautiful Blooms
Orchids are so popular simply because they are one of the most beautiful ornaments one can have for his garden. However, these types of plants are notoriously known for being quite difficult to cultivate. read more...
By Benedict Yossarian | Jul-29-2009

969 Organic Gardening: This is How it’s Done
In a nutshell, organic gardening is the practice of not using pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers in the whole process of growing all sorts of plants, flowers, vegetables, or fruits. By doing so, people are not only able to do their part in saving the environment, but the harvests produced by this practice are also much healthier. read more...
By Benedict Yossarian | Jul-29-2009

843 Gardening in the City: Bringing the Outside In
Living in the city does have a lot of perks – perhaps even too many to mention. However, one of the downsides of living in the metropolitan is that yards or gardens are hard to come by. read more...
By Benedict Yossarian | Jul-29-2009