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Building and Maintaining an Eco-friendly Deck for Summer

Summer will be in full swing soon. People would love to spend time outdoors. Due to the limits that the pandemic brought, some may not feel too enthusiastic going to far places. The perfect solution is to spend time in your outdoor spaces. Imagine an afternoon with ice-cold lemonade in hand and hearty laughter ringing.

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House Flipping: Can You Do It?

You might have heard of house flipping from TV shows such as “Flipping Boston” or “Zombie House Flipping.” The presenters tend to make a decent profit (upwards of 60 grand) per project. It sounds so simple: buy an old house, rehabilitate it, and then sell it for a profit. Real estate investors take a chance

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How to Build Energy-efficient Homes

Do you know how much energy a U.S. home consumes? According to the U.S. Energy Information and Administration, an average resident consumes around 877 kWh per month. While the home-owner pays for the energy consumption, it is the entire planet that pays for generating it. Yes, you read that right. Generating energy can significantly impact our

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8 Things You Can Recycle From a Home Renovation

Producing waste is often inevitable during a home renovation, even with the most careful planning, measurements, and estimations. Nevertheless, you can minimize the amount of waste you produce by recycling leftover materials and prevent them from going to the landfill. But what kind of materials can you recycle? And what other purposes can they serve?

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Eco-friendly Solutions in the Master and Guest Bathrooms

What is the most luxurious room in your house? If you have the power to turn any room into an elegant hotel-like space, what room will you choose? The kitchen and bedroom immediately come to mind, but you know in your heart you want a gorgeous bathroom as well. The master and guest bathrooms are

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Creating a Cohesive Backyard: Why It Should Be More Than a Garden

If you happen to have an outdoor property in your home, you can start to feel excited about what amenities you want to include to provide you with an enjoyable shelter. Swimming pools, basketball courts, and outer decks are at the top of the list when developing ideas for the area. While it is okay

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Easy Ways to Secure Your Garage Against Burglary

Thieves are everywhere. They are always looking for vulnerabilities they can exploit and use to trespass into your home, steal your belongings, threaten your safety. As a primary point of entry, the garage should provide you security from people with ill intent. However, in most houses, it is not really a priority. The homeowners would

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Cheap and Easy Ways to Conserve Energy in Your Garden

If you want a greener and more eco-friendly house, you have to start in the yard. Does that sound strange? Why would you need to conserve energy in the yard when it is an outdoor space? Unknowingly for many, there are a lot of ways that a yard can use up too much energy, water,

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Should You Retrofit Your Home Into A Passive House?

Conscious decisions to live a sustainable lifestyle, such as using a reusable bag when going out for groceries or cutting down on the number of products you purchase that utilize single-use plastics, are all excellent examples of adopting a more eco-friendly mindset. In fact, we can take it even a step further and include our

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