Maintenance Tip: Inspect Caulking in Bathrooms

inspect caulking in bathrooms

Caulking breaks down over time in a bathroom between various plumbing fixtures and floor joints in a bathroom. Especially around sinks, bathtubs, and showers. If you don’t replace this worn out caulking, water can get under your floor tile and cause damage to the tiles, wood baseboards, and the sub-flooring itself. Make sure to inspect caulking in bathrooms periodically. Based on the wear and tear, you may also need to replace the caulk in your bathrooms. Read More


Six Steps to Managing Home Remodel Projects

Managing home remodel projects require several steps to be truly successful. With these six key steps, you can manage a home remodel project with ease. The six phases to managing home remodel projects are: Ideas and Concepts, Design, Research, Budgets, Execution and Closeout. Each of these steps requires time and organization to complete your project.

Follow each of these steps to manage home remodeling projects.  First, start with creating a wish list or an idea of what your want your project to look like. Read More


Great New Electrical Ideas for your Home

We are fortunate to live in the 21st century because great innovation gives us some marvelous products that help understand the way we live. These products can provide us with more options on how we live.

Great electric solutions like rotating electrical outlets that support multiple formats are useful for any homeowner who needs a central hub for managing multiple electrical devices. Read More


How to Rethink the Purpose of Your Closets

ClosetsThis is a post from our guest blogger, Kalyn M. Johnson of  More Space Place® & ifurnish®

In our homes we have doors, drawers and other handy compartments that allow us to tuck away and hide our clutter or disorganization. Don’t worry, I’m guilty of this too at times. Closets are the big one. It is so convenient to shove anything that is not of use at the time into an already crazily full closet filled with the rest of your unneeded stuff.  Read More


Getting Help and Hiring a Professional for Organization

Organization

Organizing your home takes time and sometimes help. The National Association of Professional Organizers (NAPO) certifies organizations and individuals to help you with home organization. These companies can organize a room, a closet or even your whole home. These professionals also help with other forms of home organization. Many of these professionals can organize your paper and digital assets. There is no one way to organize your home. However, here are some helpful tips to use when trying to get organized. Read More