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Window Choices for Small Rooms
- By Taylen Peterson
- Published 02/8/2010
- Home Maintenance And Repair , Home Building , Home Accessories , House and Home , Home Improvement
- Unrated
You don't have to feel trapped or suffocated in a small room. Many homeowners are opening up these rooms with windows. In a cost conscious world, they're doing more with less. Undersized rooms can turn into charming additions to the house if you add the right windows.
Induction Units: A New Era in Kitchens
- By Carolyn Capalbo
- Published 02/8/2010
- Home Improvement
- Unrated
Cooking has changed a lot over the millennia. What started out as heating food items over a fire or coals has progressed through gas and electric range cooking to a new age of cooking with an electromagnet.
The Return to Decorating With Wall Paper
- By Matt Barker
- Published 02/8/2010
- Home Decorating
- Unrated
Rest assured, the new wall coverings available are not the same as in years gone by, though some of the designs have a distinctly retro feel. Papers range from Victorian to geometrical, from vinyls to fabrics, and small repeats to entire murals. And as with all decorating elements, there is a product for every budget range.
Recent Articles
December Home Sales an Ominous End to 2009
- By David Abernathy
- Published 02/8/2010
- Selling Real Estate
- Unrated
The year 2009 ended on less of an upswing for the real estate market than many people across the country would have liked to see, considering the amount of money that the government has spent to support the housing market; but only time will tell how the end of the year numbers will affect the first quarter of 2010.
Finding the Right Neighborhood
- By Greg Smith
- Published 02/8/2010
- Buying Real Estate
- Unrated
Check to see if planning permission has been granted to build an intensive pig farm down the road, or if a new highway has been scheduled to cut a swathe through the lovely view you were planning on enjoying from the deck of your new home.
Growing Wild in the Garden
- By Greg Smith
- Published 02/8/2010
- Home Gardening
- Unrated
During spring and summer plenty of bright, scented flowers should attract dazzling butterflies and hummingbirds. Evergreen shrubbery and small trees will create safe feeding and roosting areas for a host of wild birds all year round.
Words of Wisdom
- By M Shane
- Published 02/8/2010
- Real Estate
- Unrated
We've all enjoyed those priceless pearls of wisdom that business-people band around like so much confetti - 'Thinking outside the box', 'At the end of the day' and the mathematically impossible 'I'll give it 110%'. But as any real estate agent will tell you, when it comes to buying and selling property, it really is all about 'location, location. location'.
Was the End of 2009 Just the Beginning for Home Foreclosures?
- By David Abernathy
- Published 02/8/2010
- Real Estate
- Unrated
Last year we kept hearing how the recession was over or almost over and things were going to look up at any moment. Well, 2009 came and went and we soon discovered that the recession was, in fact, not over. The question now is not if millions of people are going to lose their homes—which millions already have—but what the final toll of homes in foreclosure is going to be when this economic is finally over.
Boulder, Colorado Real Estate Market: How Did We Fare in 2009?
- By Phil Boren
- Published 02/8/2010
- Buying Real Estate
- Unrated
More bad news reported in the national media today: Record number of "foreclosures" in 2009 and more expected this year. Real estate amrkets are intensely local and, depending where you live, there may be a silver lining in the market.




