We all know the basics behind staging a home for a sale: fix the obvious and affordable issues around the home, declutter, depersonalize (remove family pictures, obvious personal items), remove awkward / oversized furniture, use a fairly neutral pallet (particularly when it comes to wall color), clean the place like you’ve never cleaned before, and get rid of your cat forever. If you do this, you’re already ahead of the curve. But as I discovered, if you take your staging work even further, your home will make that much more of a better impression. [click to continue…]
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Sometimes, it feels like you just can’t win. After weeks of nagging by your spouse, you finally get on that “thing” in the yard that you promised to get done. And, of course, mid-way through the project, you realize you need a beer tool from inside the house. You’re feeling lazy, so rather than untie those shoes or work boots, you think you can wipe them on the mat, creep into the house quickly, get what you need, and creep out without leaving a mess. Guess again. As if a dirt alert went off, your spouse is in the room spazzing about the mess you just made by traipsing into the home with mucky shoes. [click to continue…]
What happens when your shop vac sucks? And not in a good way? The Oneida Dust Deputy Deluxe can improve the performance of your shop vac so that it can live to suck another day. [click to continue…]
Spring is in the air, and with it, that familiar smell: The emergence of all the gross things once hidden by the snow. Even if your city has by-laws that require dog owners to pick up their pets’ droppings, winter is a special wonderland for bad dog walkers – rather than baggying the brown, they’ve kicked some snow over the area the dog was, thus hiding a special surprise on your lawn. How grand. [click to continue…]
Pretty much anytime someone mentions: “Spring Cleaning”–my first instinct is to hide in a closet (not to be cleaned) and frame myself inside of it. Despite the fact that I rather enjoy clean areas–the actual doing of the cleaning is what seems to bother me. It’s just so…blech. There are easily a billion things I’d rather be doing than cleaning–but despite my insistence on the idea that gnomes or armies of pixies will actually do it, they never have. So, I present to you: Spring Cleaning Chores with a Twist: Some outdoor chores that probably should be done–and my suggestions on how to make them seem like things I would have thought of–or at least would participate in. [click to continue…]
