Category Archive for "Remodeling Projects"

I Want to Remodel My House. Can I Get Financing?

Guest Blogger: Gerri Detweiler

Maybe you’re hoping to sell your home sometime soon and it needs sprucing up. Maybe you just can’t stand the look of your kitchen cabinets anymore.

Whatever the reason, you may want to remodel your home without depleting your bank account. Or you may be short on cash. That’s where a home remodeling loan comes in. You may have more options than you realize for financing home renovations.

Low-Rate Credit Card

If you have a credit card with a low interest rate (or perhaps even a 0% balance transfer option), charging your remodeling purchases allows you to pay them off over time at an attractive interest rate. (Lower rates require good credit.) But you’ll need some discipline to avoid charging more than you can afford to pay back in a reasonable period of time.

Brighten your Home and Summer with Floral Prints

Summer brings about bright and sunny days, beach weather and bouquets of delight. Sometimes it feels like everything is better in summer with the colorful landscape of flowers. Yards and parks are in full bloom. Why not bring the floral concept indoors to create a lighter, summer feeling. Summer time home decor can also get everyone in the mood to celebrate the weather and enjoy this time of year.

Fresh Flowers

Adding fresh flowers is the most immediate way to introduce the floral concept. Whether you can create a bouquet from your backyard beauties or you take a quick trip to your local florist or grocery store, adding fresh flowers to a room brightens the area. And also brings in the Read More

Achieving the Modern Rustic Home Design

Learning how to bring the tradition of rustic home design to a modern look is actually quite easy. It may feel complicated, but if you view some of these tips, you will see how easy it is. Adding a modern rustic design to your home incorporates five different elements. These elements are tone, furniture, design elements, accents and industrial components.

Elements to Create Design

Each of these elements is explained in the following infographic by letsgetcuckoo. Mixing stone and concrete with wood and metals is one way to use these elements to craft the modern rustic design. Using reclaimed wood with older appliances or sleek modern stainless steel appliances will also give you this modern rustic design.

A modern rustic home design takes the rustic or old components to design and incorporates the sleekness of modern design. The result, a blend of old and new and rich and smooth and sleek and tough. Even layout of a room can vary the design elements. Look up and down when determining how to create your modern rustic look. Exposing duct work in the ceiling can be the very modern style that creates this new modern rustic design look.

7 Decorating Ideas to Add Color without Painting

Guest Blogger: Heather Roberts

The easiest way you can redecorate your home is by repainting it, but dealing with moving furniture, priming the walls, painting and more will take good bit of effort and work if you are not up for it. Changing the look and feel of a room can be completed with some alternative methods instead. The following ideas will give you some insight as to what you can do to make these changes happen if you are not up for painting the walls: Read More

Curvalicious Bathroom Trends

Guest Blogger: Derek Lotts

There are practically dozens of ways a bathroom can be designed, from simple and strict looking ones to futuristically designed ones as choices and bathroom trends continually change. This time a type of design that is based on curved bathroom elements is going to be discussed, with a focus on every single segment of bathroom that needs to be covered in detail in order to fully implement the initial idea. Therefore, with circles, rounded edges and ovals in mind, with all their varieties, we are ready to go. Read More