Home Improvement Investment Return

Home Improvement Chester County Philadelphia Main Line Area The phrase that “All Real Estate Is Local” contains a lot of truth in Real Estate and ... together with Remodeling Magazine* publishes their Cost vs Value edition with statistics on resale ... Remodel Attic Bedroom Replace Windows Bathroom Remodeled Kitchen remodeled 2nd Story addition Remodel [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 12:34:53

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Houses That Sit — Blue Carpet, Bad Feng Shui, Bad Design

I couldn’t resist bringing to light a funny blog post I saw recently by Robin Rogers of San Antonio ... and what homes will sit. Need to be inspired? View some gorgeous kitchen remodeling, bathroom remodeling, and bedroom remodeling ideas in our home improvement hub, Dueling Digs. You might even see a blue carpet [more...]

Date: 2008-12-01 20:48:17

Remodeling Tricks For Your Old Bedroom

by Alix Montoya There are literally hundreds of ideas for simple remodeling jobs for an old bedroom available in the market nowadays ... , your bedroom is your refuge during troubling times. Keep in mind that you need to keep it as cozy ... Tags: bedroom, building, construction, contractor, design, fabric, Home & Garden, home improvement [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 08:41:07

Interior Design Ideas For Your Bedroom

by Alix Montoya One good project that you might find yourself doing is getting a new look for your old bedroom ... with it, try to consider something of equal importance in your remodeling project. Fabrics inside the bedroom tend to fall at the bottom of everyone’s to do list when remodeling and people greatly [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 09:19:07

Design Ideas For A Whole New Bedroom

by Alix Montoya If you’re planning on a remodeling job for your drab and dreary old bedroom and seem to be running out of cheap ideas, then here are some simple tips to get you started on your very own remodeling project. The options available are staggering, but here are just a few of the easiest. Simple remodeling involves [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 21:33:29

Interior Design Ideas For Your Bedroom

by Alix Montoya If you’re considering a new look for your bedroom, there are a million possibilities found out there ... for a bedroom remodeling project is very important and can make a world of difference ... . A lot of people think of remodeling as getting new wallpapers or new furniture [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 14:18:02

What color paint….?

What color paint….? Posted By: admin // Category: Bedrooms We are in process of remodeling our new home. We have decided to decorate our extra bedroom in the oriental theme. We have some things picked out to purchase when in comes time to furnish the room; bed, dresser, wall furnishings, etc [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 02:11:05

Decor - A Smorgasbord of Textiles to Customize Your Swedish Bed

just scandinavian josef frank himalaya design When a client said she wanted to do Swedish fabrics in the bedrooms of her remodeled vacation house ... -friendly fabrics,  including Traditions, a folk art brocade, and the ultra-modern Louisa's Squares ... source for fabrics (as well as other modern decor) gives discounts to trade members who register [more...]

Date: 2008-07-03 11:00:00

Tips On Remodeling Your Kid’s Bedroom

by Alix Montoya One thing that you need to know about your kid’s room is that it has to change according to the changes that your child undergoes ... obsession. The furniture inside his or her bedroom also has to fit your child’s age. Try painting ... or for your use when you’re reading them to sleep. Make his or her bedroom a bit older or more mature [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 08:49:50

Holiday decor: My very own ‘Charlie Brown Christmas’

I grew up in a big house — not because my parents had money, but because they were the son and daughter of an ironworker and carpenter, and both inherited the building gene. They built two additions and launched hundreds of remodeling ... , to the one-bedroom condo my husband and I now share. We have no porch, no yard, no staircase, no fireplace [more...]

Date: 2008-11-20 18:07:14

Design Ideas For A Whole New Bedroom

There are literally hundreds of ideas for simple remodeling jobs for an old bedroom available in the market nowadays. The choices can easily be overwhelming. Luckily, here are some simple tips [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 08:38:16

A New Look To An Old Room

by Alix Montoya There are literally hundreds of ideas for simple remodeling jobs for an old bedroom available in the market nowadays ... in no time. Even old furniture can give your bedroom a fresh new look. You can paint them to match colors ... important. Although completely unheard of, you can try polished concrete inside your bedroom to give [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 21:36:33

1967 Modern House For Sale in Tewin

Do you remember the 1964 House For Sale in London that we scooped last week? Today we have another one ... . Designed and built in 1967 by architect Colin Huntley, this beautiful three-bedroom terrace house ... remodeling by STUDIO Blueboat who had the mission to make the living-room/dining-room larger and to move [more...]

Date: 2008-10-16 11:50:20

Fighting to protect their house from flames

It took three years for Jim Phung, 47, to remodel his six-bedroom home on Heather Ridge Drive in Yorba Linda ... % sure my house would be burned down,” Phung said, noting that the hills near his home were on fire ... the fire, but their neighbors were not so lucky—their house was almost fully engulfed in flames [more...]

Date: 2008-11-16 05:21:17

The GT40, a Ford race car rolled out in the 1960s, was a thing of legends ... from the same chassis and blueprints as the originals, “down to the structural welds,” Bloomberg.com ... Remodeled, 4-bedroom home in Woodbridge offered at $699,990 Burglars nab surfwear from Irvine business [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 23:50:14

Study says: Remodeling is not an investment!

Filed under: Real EstateOn HGTV's hit series My House is Worth What? ... waste of money. But before you take out a home equity loan to redo a bedroom, consider the facts: Remodeling Magazine's Cost vs. Value Report 2008-2009 shows that not single renovation recoups [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 12:30:00

A New Look To An Old Room

by Alix Montoya If you’re planning on a remodeling job for your drab and dreary old bedroom and seem to be running out of cheap ideas, then here are some simple tips to get you started on your very own remodeling project. The options ... a contractor to help you achieve it. As always, your bedroom is your refuge during troubling times. Keep [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 13:54:41

Home Improvement Ideas: Bedroom Remodeling

Are you thinking of getting a new look for your old bedroom? If you are, there are simple tricks and techniques available out there which you can use give your room a new lease on life. Here [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 20:22:46

Planning To Loan For Home Remodelling

Financing any additional work on your home from a loft conversion to remodeling the master bedroom is going to be expensive; often the easiest way to achieve this is by applying for a home [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 00:44:04

Under 500 Club: Visitacion Valley and Bayview (natch)

The Under 500 Club is Curbed SF's exclusive members-only support group for those shoddy, poorly-staged homes (if at all!) ... Note:"Ready to make your dreams of home ownership come true." This 2 bedroom has seen some decent recent light remodeling and is an REO sale at one of the cheapest prices we've seen for 900 square [more...]

Date: 2008-07-31 17:42:28

Peter Please Answer - Will I Ever Sell My House?

The current recession is causing a lot of people to ask Peter Answers, “Will I ever sell my house? ... houses on the market then you may need to do some upgrades to offer a better comparable. Remodeling ... return on investment. So too adding a bedroom if needed. You can go fancy if it fits your neighborhood [more...]

Date: 2009-01-01 06:15:17

post off: are you worried about the price of your home?

We usually don’t do “ripped from the headlines” types of posts here, ... (and recently crawling!) family. But that would mean putting our one-bedroom place on the market ... and doing a little remodeling? I don’t know what we’re going to do, but we probably need to make [more...]

Date: 2008-09-26 14:10:36

Big Decisions

There are many major decisions we make in life and for our families!  Choosing the home to live in is one of those big decisions. Many of you are aware that our family of 8 lives in a 1050 square foot 2 bedroom 1 bathroom home ... others. Well, the debate continues … remodel or buy and both have their definite list of pros [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 01:07:00

60’s Rambler with a new 2nd Story Addition

  ... in that I’ve been meaning to fill.  I needed to add 2 remodel projects and then add another 30 ... 3 bedroom 2 crummy bathroom house that wall all divided up into individual rooms.  We took 3 bedrooms [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 22:31:36

Best MoCo Architecture This Week

This week's picks: ... for the Future of London that come "complete with an accessible bathroom, living area, bedroom, and kitchenette ... a major overhaul via some serious remodeling and add-ons.". See more at Michael Deleon Photo. Via [more...]

Date: 2008-11-10 20:48:32

More House Guests

When you live in Florida, you seem to have a lot more house guests than say if you lived in Alaska ... one) our friends and family visit us quite often. We love having guests here. We have an extra bedroom ... as it’s only about 10 miles away. While we’re remodeling, we’ve thought about making the den a bit [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 04:55:17

A Couple of Things from the Infirmary

Here's Mathias with the gingerbread house we finally got around to putting together yesterday ... and a television show that was on in the bedroom and thus, divided his time between the two ... a little remodeling job. I think it's an improvement. The flowers have a little more pop than [more...]

Date: 2008-12-28 01:01:00

Caprice Bourret's Natty Notting Hill House

SELLER: Caprice BourretLOCATION: Notting Hill, LondonPRICE: £7,500,000SIZE: 4,530 square feet, 5 bedrooms, 4 ... and 4.5 bathroom Victorian era house has been extensively and beautifully remodeled. Clearly much ... .5 bathroomsDESCRIPTION: A beautifully presented semi-detached, five bedroom Victorian stucco [more...]

Date: 2008-09-16 08:43:00

Eight Home Improvements that Pay Off

Smart Money magazine lists eight home improvements that pay off ... the attic into a bedroom, $46,691, 77% Extra closet space, $1,250, 50% Remodeling the bathroom, $59,435 ... and it was somewhere in the $4k range. 2. The "turning an attic into a bedroom" seems like a clear [more...]

Date: 2008-07-30 18:16:53

Old Dog, New Tricks

Cecil Beaton's bedroom at 8 Pelham Place, London, after the house's remodelling and redecoration in 1962 ... Images.Several years earlier, Beaton made similar spring-cleaning efforts in London, sweeping out the old [more...]

Date: 2008-12-23 06:20:00

Backyard Shed Turned Home Office [Featured Workspace]

Reader Brian DeHamer needed a home office but lived in a crowded house, so instead he used extra space out behind his garage ... to be difficult to continue working from home in our small 3 bedroom house in San Diego. After debating the merits of either moving or remodeling we decided the simpler solution would simply be to build a separate [more...]

Date: 2008-06-27 11:00:00

A peek into my studio

My friend Jen over at Gypsy Mare Studios posted some photos of her studio and asked to see a peek into other artists lairs ... . This was a child's bedroom when we bought the house, and I haven't gotten around to remodeling, hence [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 00:22:00

Killing Time with Home Improvement

It’s the afternoon before a 3-day weekend and perhaps you’re counting down the hours until you can fire up that bbq or go purchase some last-minute ... . Perhaps you’re day-dreaming about some kitchen remodeling ideas, or thinking about a bathroom ... : East Fox Chase Rd, Chester NJ Top Bedroom: Hillhaven Ave, Tujunga CA Top Yards & Garden [more...]

Date: 2008-07-03 20:29:42

Greatest Hits of 2008

It’s been a fun year here at Remodeling This Life. I have really enjoyed sharing myself and the friendships it has brought, ... Remodeling This Life to read more great content or to leave a comment! Similar Posts:House Remodel Photos Link Love: New Year Edition Not Deprived Simple Storage Solutions: In The Bedroom Simple Storage [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 11:00:59

A Few Helpful Hints In Floor Installation.

by Alix Montoya Are you planning to put up a new floor for your bedroom? ... it with polished concrete? Getting hardwood flooring for the bedroom? How about tiles for the kitchen ... . Before you start any floor installation or remodeling project, buy some really good knee pads [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 08:29:23

A Few Helpful Hints In Floor Installation.

by Alix Montoya Are you planning to put up a new floor for your bedroom? ... it with polished concrete? Getting hardwood flooring for the bedroom? How about tiles for the kitchen ... . Before you start any floor installation or remodeling project, buy some really good knee pads [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 16:46:37

Weekend Open House Report

Time now for another edition of the Curbed Open House Report, wherein we run down the best of the primo weekend pickins'. Something we missed? ... with modern sensibility. Handsome facade, gorgeous remodel, meticulous attention to detail, quality ... and is graced with preserved period elegance throughout. Three bedroom, 1 bathroom, formal dining room, [more...]

Date: 2008-09-26 23:47:57

I Finished My Remodel

Well my bathroom remodel is finally over. For those keeping tabs, here’s what I did to my home: completely renovated the master bathroom replaced the carpets in the master bedroom and living ... have done the project. Dueling Digs helped me a lot with bathroom remodeling ideas. I was able to flip [more...]

Date: 2008-07-07 19:02:16

Make Your Own Home Furniture Polish

For people who hate the smell or are dissatisfied with the performance of their cleaning aids for polishing their furniture, ... IKEA Uses RPG to Promote Bedroom Furniture Home Depot Closes 15 Stores Handmade Townsend Split Table ... More Green to Kitchen Remodeling A $500 Makeover for your Guest Room [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 21:44:19

Rental Watch: Yardage and Greenery

Every once in a while, Curbed SF checks in with the San Francisco rental market. And we do it the layman's way: by scouring Craigslist ... and garden shared with two other units. 2008-10-portola.jpg What: 3 bedroom, 1 bath detached house Where: Portola How much: $2650 The Hard Sell: Hardwood floors, "tasteful" remodel, garage [more...]

Date: 2008-10-31 23:10:04

Need help decorating!?

Need help decorating!? Posted By: admin // Category: Bedrooms My husband and I just bought our first house and are in the middle of remodeling it. I have NO decorating sense. I wish I did, I always watch HGtv and love what they do. I was hoping [more...]

Date: 2009-01-21 02:01:37

A better bathroom

A better bathroom I’ve been thinking about this for awhile now; I’d love to help my in laws redo their bathroom ... bedroom), so most of the towels, washcloths and extra bath items can be stored there rather than ... remodeling, but Better Bathrooms has provided me with some great ideas. Because they provide a nice [more...]

Date: 2008-06-28 16:49:46

Home Improvement Help Information

Sometimes decorating a room within a strict budget is an absorbing challenge for anyone who enjoys decorating ... employed in the living room, if you dismiss your bedroom that is, so it’s typical for people ... line as an accent for certain areas in the room. Remodeling Articles You can also try inside plants [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 01:31:55

Floors+ Lessons Learned

It’s funny how things get started sometimes. We had always planned on remodeling our new home, but the start of the remodel was somewhat unplanned ... that inspired us to rip out all the flooring and the wall between our bedroom and living room. Needless to say [more...]

Date: 2008-11-04 13:00:50

That's Rather Hideous: Eagle Rock Hodgepodge

Click the image above to view the full photogallery. The listing warns us "Prepared to be wowed!!!!This two-story contemporary home has been extensively remodelled. Don't be fooled ... one), and you have a baffling hodgepodge of decor styles. This four-bedroom, four-and-a-half bath [more...]

Date: 2008-11-11 22:01:24

Checking in with the DWR Kitchen

People who are gearing towards a modern kitchen design are bound to get good ideas from this masterpiece by Nilus de Matran ... is a Science Laboratory! Silver Nano Washing Machines for Healthier Living Remodeling? Start with the Small Spaces Nurseryworks The Duet Twin Bed Mobile Fireplaces hitting Modern Homes Soon Making Your Bedroom [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 06:53:50

Do It Yourself Home Improvement

Do It Yourself Home Improvement Author: Haley 3 Jan Sometimes decorating a room within a strict budget is an absorbing challenge for anyone ... is for the most part, time employed in the living room, if you dismiss your bedroom that is, so it's typical ... , and employ a darker line as an accent for certain areas in the room. Remodeling Articles [more...]

Date: 2009-01-03 19:21:59

Out With The Old

2008 was a year of many projects here in our home. In addition to my Greatest Hits of 2008 post that includes the articles from last year that ... s projects from 2008. Head on over and check them all out! Please visit Remodeling This Life to read more great content or to leave a comment! Similar Posts:Name That Plant Little Boy’s Bedroom Makeover [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 11:00:46

Update

Both of my boys are feeling much better!! We got the house that we've been trying to buy!!! ... and countertops. We've also talked about doing some serious remodeling to open it up to the living ... has to go.The OfficeWill's Room - Red Raider fan? We will paint this.Extra Bedroom - We probably won't [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 20:46:00

Wave Wall Texture in Plaster and Paint

By Gregg HicksPutting texture on a plain wall can add a little personality to an entire room ... you can think of, adding a little excitement to the walls in your bedroom, bathroom, or den will bring a lot ... . Offering homeowners a simple, quick, and free way to access, qualified home improvement remodeling [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 05:37:00

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