5 Common Causes of Dents and Scratches on Hardwood Floors

Dents that press deeply into the floor can appear, as can scratches that sharply sweep its surface. Careless mistakes happen in homes every day, but what are you and your family doing wrong that’s causing dents and scratches on the hardwood floors?

Continue reading to learn the five of the most common culprits and how you can minimize these damages.

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What Is Slow Decorating?

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Buying a new home is exciting, especially when it comes to making your mark on it by choosing furniture, paint colors, and other design elements that you want to incorporate. Although it may be tempting to transform your home the second you have the keys in hand, many experts recommend doing the opposite.

The result is slow decorating, the practice of taking your time to mindfully decorate a space and carefully curating the pieces that will go in your home.

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4 Tips to Make Your Pool Look and Feel Expensive

4 Tips To Make Your Pool Look and Feel Expensive

Your home reflects your personality, and it’s the one place where you are free to make as many transformations as you’d like. To successfully transform any area, you must incorporate as many senses as possible, starting with sight and touch.

These tips to make your pool look and feel expensive will greatly impact your backyard. However, you must consider various characteristics, like pool size and weather conditions, to select which implementations work with your space.

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5 Room Decorating Basics

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Whether you’re a new homeowner trying to make your place feel like home or a long-time owner staging your house to sell, knowing where and how to begin decorating can feel daunting. While there aren’t any hard and fast rules that you have to follow with home decor, there are basic guidelines you can follow to make your home comfortable — and even increase its value.

Wherever you are in your homeownership journey, here are five room decorating basics to get you started.

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5 Ideas to Repurpose Those Old Shutters

Spend some time at garage sales, flea markets, thrift stores, and antique shops, and you’ll frequently see them. They might even be accumulating dust in your garage right now. 

There are a ton of creative shutter project ideas that can help you organize and beautify your home. Shutters can be used in a wide variety of ways to decorate your home and they give a room so much personality. 

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