Home Planning and Digest

Clutter cleaning doesn’t need to be done at one time especially when you have other things to do like attending to your children’s needs, looking after your husband, and worst if you are a working mother who spends at least 8 hours a day, 6 days a week working outside your home. The best solution [...]

Small children seem to have an incredible appetite for exploring, but little understand of danger. If you have an infant or toddler, you would know. Here are fews tips on to how childproof your home: Pick up small objects. Protect your cabinets and drawers. Always lock the ones containing hazardous containers. Avoid unnecessary extension cords. [...]

Here are some views that people gave about having a quality door: Southern California architect Craig Stoddard says: “The entry door is the beginning of your journey through a house”. “It’s the first part of the house that anyone going through the house looks at closely. Ideally it should emphasize the character of the house,” [...]

One of the easiest ways to brighten up any home is to add a bit of foliage here and there. A vase of freshly picked blooms, a bunch of greens, and a colorful basket of fruits could liven up any home. But then again, cut flowers can only last for a few days to maybe [...]

Undeniably treasure troves of knowledge, entertainment, and wonder, books are among the most precious things anyone could collect. Books however, don’t always have to end up cloistered up in a library, collecting dust on the bookshelves. What if you use books as part of your interior design? Many designers suggest using carefully placed bits and [...]

Have you ever tried thinking about your home like you would about a person? No matter how inanimate your home may be, the truth of the matter is that it has its own personality. This is especially true for houses that you bought from a previous owner or one you did not design and build [...]

Don Vandervort continues: Cut and remove the damaged wallpaper as far back as a seam, a corner or to the least visible part of the design, such as a line in the pattern. Be careful not to pull away the drywall’s paper covering when you remove the wallpaper. To make a patch, cut a square [...]

Don Vandervort says: Many wallpaper repair jobs require patching with a matching piece of wallpaper. For this reason, when installing wallpaper, it’s always a good idea to save some for repairs! As wallpaper ages, it tears, its edges work loose, and bubbles appear beneath the paper. Although much contemporary wallpaper is washable, older papers may [...]

Unless you’ve got a ten-bedroom mansion, space would most probably be a constant concern. Either you barely have enough or you don’t know what to put in a corner, there’s the constant need to maximize whatever space you have. Of course, “maximizing space” does not necessarily translate to covering every inch of space with something. [...]

One of the best things that you can do even in your small garden is to grow fruit trees. Fruit trees are both ornamental and useful. They are a sight to behold when they blossom. They provide shade and delicious and nutritious fruits, free from arsenic and other chemicals that are added to fruits in [...]