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How to Stage Your Home for Sale




Last week we dedicated an entire week to content for the first time home buyer looking to gain some knowledge before entering the real estate market for the first time. We got lots of good feedback, but one comment asked a very appropriate question, “What about those selling a home?”

Real Estate 101: Hiring a Real Estate Professional




So you want to hire a real estate professional? Are you just going to hire someone your friend likes or should you dig a little deeper.

How to Not Pay Twice for Live TV in Your Vacation Home if You Have an iOS Device




Summer months are coming when you’ll start planning those trips to maybe that vacation home by the beach or on the lake or just away from it all. Sure we’d all like to say that we’re the intellectual types who don’t watch TV when we’re on vacation because we’re so busy enjoying nature or reading Ernest Hemminway, but let’s be honest with ourselves. On those rainy days or nights, sometimes you just want to kick back and watch a ball game or reruns of Seinfeld that you religiously DVR. Am I right?

How to Throw a ‘Mad Men’ Party at Your Home




Just like we do, the folks over at Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce sure work long hard hours, but they also know how to have a bit of fun at home too. Tons of fans will be taking a page out of their book by throwing Mad Men premiere parties at their homes this Sunday. Here are some surefire tips to help you throw a viewing party at home cool enough to make Don Draper proud

April 05 / 2013

5 Innovative Kitchen Shortcuts




The folks at eHow have put together 5 pretty awesome kitchen shortcuts to make your life at home just a little bit easier. And the best part is they did it in under 90 seconds.

March 06 / 2013

How to Grow Flowers for Your Home in the Winter




Here in the Northeast, the days are getting kind of dreary. It gets dark early. It’s getting a bit chilly and we’re constantly checking our Weather Channel app to see if snow is in the forecast. Sure our friends in Southern California, Texas and Florida are enjoying spring-like weather, but during the winter our homes could use a little something extra to brighten the place now that the holiday decor is gone.

January 16 / 2013

How to Create a Warm Friendly Space in Your Home




It was 21 degrees when I got up this morning, so creating a warm space is extremely appealing to me right now. While this LXTV segment has less to do with the temperature outside and more to do with the appeal of your home the video has some really useful tips in it that are perfect brightening up that plain room in your house.

January 03 / 2013

How to Quickly Skip Those Annoying Previews on Your Home DVDs




I have 3 kids and an extended family with tons of kids so come the holidays when we feel that something is about to break in the house, it’s time to put on a DVD for the kids. But you know kids’ attention spans. If you don’t get that movie on in the first 60 seconds of them sitting down, you’ve lost them. Of course, those annoying trailers have to start, you hit the skip button on the remote but it doesn’t always let you skip right to the movie.

December 11 / 2012

How to Properly Store Foods in Your Home Refrigerator




What? You can’t just shove everything onto shelves in your refrigerator? As long as the door shuts, shouldn’t everything be ok? Well, evidently not.

November 08 / 2012

How to Keep Your Bills Low This Winter




Learning to use utility resources sparingly to keep bills low can take time and practice. While homeowners are still figuring out how much heat and electricity they are truly expending, there are a few tricks first-time homeowners can use to keep their bills manageable.

November 06 / 2012