Tag: home renovation

  • Home Update in a Month? Fear Not!

    Home Update in a Month? Fear Not!

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    Six weeks to plan a holiday event, update the dining room, maybe even organize a wedding can be done with limited nail-biting moments if you’re organized. But  an entire home update, including two bathrooms? Follow these no-fail steps we used when renovating our house for the summer season with limited stress and stylish results. 

  • How the Home Has Evolved After Shelter-In-Place

    How the Home Has Evolved After Shelter-In-Place

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    After living in shelter-in-place, we have our own takeaways like the war-era granny who maximized the lifecycle of soap. 2020 has become the most challenged year in most people’s lifetime but there were positives from a year of adversity (without undermining the loss of life). Lessons from an Efficient Quarantine Home: Respectfully connect with the household…

  • Small Homes Are Trending, Here’s Why

    Small Homes Are Trending, Here’s Why

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    Dissecting millennial traits has become popular sport for marketers, interpreting their love of Ubers and anathema to anything DIY, but this group can be quite practical despite the initiative. Take their preference for smaller homes, which maximizes square footage over superfluous space. The modifications to this 1950s East Hampton clapboard and how to unearth its inherent character…