Home Gardening for a Healthy Summer

Home gardening is a great way to spend time at your home and get healthy. By growing your own vegetables, you can save money, add exercise, get some vitamin D, and eat healthy. All of this with vegetables grown by your own hand. Not to mention how exciting it is to bring something to life. And then treat your family to a healthy meal based on your effort. Home gardening gives you an opportunity to take up a new hobby. Hobbies like canning vegetables, drying fruits, and creating compost piles for a greener environment. Getting healthy and using natural fertilizers and no pesticides will also contribute to your Read More


How Does HomeZada Work?

Many of our users and potential users are asking so how does HomeZada work? When we built HomeZada, we knew we wanted to make it easy to use for our Zada nation. So we created a set of videos to help walk through how does HomeZada work. These videos can help existing clients and those thinking about using HomeZada take a gander at how to make it work and function. Tips like how to get started, what are the different types of features in HomeZada and what are some suggested practices on getting started. We have multiple videos to choose from when learning how to use HomeZada. Maybe you want to track your home maintenance tasks, maybe home remodel projects are important to you, maybe you just want to know what you own to protect your belongings or plan for the future by establishing your estate planning process. Whatever need is priority to you, we want to give you the options to leverage all the components in HomeZada, so our videos at our YouTube channel will help you understand all the details on using HomeZada. We hope these answer the questions, how does HomeZada work? Watch the detailed video below to find out how HomeZada can help you manage your home’s inventory, maintenance checklists, owner’s manuals, spending and to dos in an easy to use online application!


The House That Inspired “The Great Gatsby” House

the Great GatsbyThe Great Gatsby is widely acclaimed and known as one of the literary classics of America’s history. What most people don’t know is that there used to be a house in New York  that inspired many of the scenes from the novel. Unfortunately, that house had to be tore down, and CBS Sunday Morning did a great special on it that featured the home and where it is today and what it once was upon a time. It is amazing how homes are inspirations for movies and books like the Great Gatsby. It is amazing how houses go through phases over their lifetime. Even with this home, you can see what happens over time to a home and you realize how important caring for a home is to the overall view and details of the home.  Read More

Don’t Make These Remodeling Mistakes

Remodeling MistakesSpring time is fast-approaching, and with it comes do it yourself (DIY) projects. Just because it is cold and dreary out now doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t be thinking about these upcoming projects and avoiding any remodeling mistakes. Take advantage of the fact that you will be indoors and do some brainstorming and prioritizing of the DIY projects you want to accomplish in 2012.

Zippy Shell recently published a blog highlighting The 4 Biggest Remodeling Mistakes and how to avoid these remodeling mistakes that we thought was pretty insightful. Here’s what they found: Read More


Interior Paint Colors and What They Mean

Interior Paint ColorsWhether you are building and designing your own home or whether you are renovating your existing home, choosing the interior paint colors of each room can result in an emotional roller coaster. Sure, it can be a blast picking out your favorite colors and brainstorming what colors to paint each room, but it can get down right stressful too! It’s not exactly  an easy fix if you get done painting a room and decide it’s not quite right.

With that being said, you should know what each color means and what it might portray to your visitors. We found this great list from Warm Interiors to help give you an idea: Read More