Ready. Set. Go. It’s that time of year, once more: when we look forward to the forthcoming 365 days and determine how we are going to spend our time, energy, and money. Some things are a given; we definitely need to work, we will be buying food, and we’ve got [...]
The Time Has Come Another holiday has come and gone. Brightly wrapped gifts have been eviscerated, then celebrated; lights have been dug up from the basement, hung, and are now returning to their hibernation; tinsel, trees, and mistletoe have been either packed up or thrown out, and now comes the [...]
BEAUTY FROM EVERY SIDE You work hard to make your home beautiful; the garden, the lawn, the interior decoration...each aspect within your control has felt your influence, and your home is all the better for it. Perhaps you were even lucky enough to build your home and got a say [...]
RIGHTING THE WRONGS There is a certain sense of melancholy in determining (either through the discovery of a problem or a general acknowledgment of a sustained sense of deterioration) that your home needs some exterior work done. Like finding out that your car is in need of major repairs, when [...]
THE RIGHT STUFF With home renovation — just as in fashion, or acting, or any other public-facing profession — you either have “it” or you don’t. This doesn’t mean that the actor or model has less inherent value. Instead, it is simply a question of whether or not they are [...]
Here in Utah, it has been one of the top stories of the year. The housing market — always competitive, always frantic — has reached a fever pitch in the past year which has caused the bubble of excitement for single-family homes to expand larger than anyone could have expected. [...]
Home repair is, in some ways, an ever-constant part of life. The responsibility to keep your living area maintained, and beautiful, and safe is what separates the homeowner from a renter or anybody else. If you own a house long enough, you will likely have a chance to repair parts [...]
Utah might have been described as a rose blossoming in the desert but in terms of its weather, it has never been compared to anything so demure. The Beehive State’s sometimes tumultuous weather has been known to bring rain in the morning, snow in the afternoon, and have it all [...]
Home damage due to inclement weather is an unfortunate reality for many people all over the country. Hurricane-tossed sheds, flooded basements, and homes shaken down in an earthquake are all things that one usually hears about happening in places other than the midWest (with the exception of Utah’s tornado-ripped siding [...]
There is no doubt a certain mystique that surrounds the person who is intent on doing all their home renovation projects themselves, and then go on to actually do it. Neighbors look out their kitchen windows and stare from the car as they drive past, wondering how it is that [...]