10 Tips for Working With a Contractor
This is the year you're going all out. You're going to build a deck, add a porch, erect a gazebo or lay a patio. You've done the research. It's well within your capability and you're looking forward to the satisfaction of creating a structure of...

Jar Lid and Jar Candle Decoration
Supplies Needed: Most items can be found around the house or in a craft store. Jar Candle with lid – with removable plastic bottom Craft Glue Paint Scissors Decorating Candle Jars and Lids is a fun and easy project for all...

Light Up Your Life With Feng Shui
Feng Shui (pronounced Foong Shway or Fung Shoy) is the ancient Chinese art of luck management, which works by maximising the flow of energy (known as ‘Chi’) in your environment. Every object, inanimate or living, possesses its own energy field and...

Seeding Flowers Indoors: An Inexpensive Way to a Beautiful Summer Gard..
Every year you plan that THIS will be the year you have pots and pots of lush plants on your balcony or deck. Then you visit your local nursery in the spring and reality hits -– the cost for your fantasy is just outrageous! Sound familiar? But...

Maximizing Space on a Minimized Budget
Do you often have friends, family, or guests over for the weekends and are in desperate need of a spare bedroom? Are you going nuts trying to figure out how to turn that extra bedroom that’s never used into an office, yet still wondering how to...

Finding a Color Scheme - Decorating with What you Have
If you feel helpless when it comes to picking and blending colors, your answer could be as far away as your nearest pillow. Check out this quick way to create a color scheme for your home with our PICK - SEE -LMD method. PICK a Pattern: Starting...

Set Out a Feast for your Feathered Friends
February is “Feed the Birds” month in much of North America. And what great timing! If you’re going through a cold winter, you can help the wintering birds that are going through it with you. If you live further south, you’ll have not only...

So You've Decided to Finish Your Basement!
When a family decides to finish a basement space, there are so many factors to consider it can seem overwhelming. What does your family want to achieve within the new basement? Are you looking for a play area, a family room, a work-out room, home...

Home Audit: Ensure Optimal Insulation Levels For Maximum Energy Saving..
(NC)—'Improving your home's insulating system is a speedy and cost-effective way to increase energy-efficiency and comfort in your home, reducing heating costs in winter and cooling costs in summer,' says John Peterson, Insulation Expert, Owens...

Year-Round Tree House: Attic Renovations Create Fun Space For Play
(NC)—Tree houses are great in theory but pose a number of safety issues and aren't ideally suited to cold weather play,' says David Flood, Insulation Expert, Owens Corning. 'If you have an attic with adequate headroom, a clever alternative is to...

Essential Tools For Home Improvement
(NC)—While the home may be a family's castle and an escape from today's hectic world, it's probably not perfect. Decorating styles change. There are pictures to hang and shelves to install. Things break. It's too pressing to ignore, but too minor to...

Use Shelves And Storage Units To Conquer All That Stuff!
(NC)—Stuff! Stuff! Stuff everywhere! The clutter starts to overwhelm. However, life can by simplified and clutter tamed with a few organizational hints and a good shelving or storage system. Planning. Determine the purpose and style of the unit....

Adding Texture To Your Floors Adds Texture To Room
Texture is key in flooring as well. The Perspective 4 plank line of floors features bevelled edges along both the width and the length of planks. (NC)—Home owners today want their interiors to be less complicated and easier to maintain — a style...

Cork's Coziness Makes It Ideal Flooring
In kids' bedrooms, and family, music and rec rooms, Cork feels cozy to the toes. (NC)—I remember the cork flooring in my old public school. Durable, easy to care for and very comfortable underfoot — but it was like a huge bulletin board on the...

Maximizing Your Living Space
Look to contemporary (modern) décor to maximize space. TORLYS Uniclic® Cork flooring, with its sensuous texture, can warm up a modern interior, preventing it from looking stark. (NC)—Whether we live in a 2,800-square-foot, two-storey in the...

Carpet Takes Center Stage
(NC)—From soft, layered intricate vine and floral designs to multi-levelled patchwork weaves to tailored ribs, geometric loops and lattices to nubby, terry-like twists, there are more than 200 styles and 4,000 colours of wall-to-wall carpet on the...

Come With Me To The Casbah!
A ripe persimmon is a thing of beauty – sweet, succulent and an amazing shade of orange-red. Orange and red continue to be popular colors in decorating this year but 2004’s shades are softer and more vibrant, like ripe persimmons and pomegranates....

Operation Closet
When the wife comes to you one fine day and says, “dear, I think we need a new closet for the bedroom”, the heart surges in joy. Immediate thoughts of grabbing the coat and rushing off on a mission to the nearest DIY center enters the mind before...

Funky Garden Plants 2
  What's a perennial garden plant that blooms in the winter? A hellebore! It is an outdoor plant that is shocking to see blooming sometimes in the snow. There are many varieties. They are perennial which means they come back year after...

How To Build A Waterfall
The number one, most asked question that I receive about water features is 'How do I build a waterfall?' The first advice I give is to visit natural waterfalls or at least look at photos. Don't try to memorize just how they look...just get a...

Using Colors in Your Room
Colors play an important part in your Home Decor process. Colors are what give life and personality to your room. Here are some quickies to keep in mind when deciding over colors. 1. If you are using many colors in one single room, make sure...

It's Party Time - Let's Decorate!
Holidays are here and so is the spirit of partying. Here are some wonderful ideas for transforming your home into an innovative party scenario and giving your guests an occasion that will forever remain etched in their memories. 1. Entrance: Do...

Design Elements
A well-decorated room can still lack personality. To give your room a personality, choose from among these basic design elements, modify them to suit your tastes and implement them in a way which is just right for you. 1. A Theme - A 'themed'...

10 Exotic Centerpieces for the Holidays
1. Shoe Magic - Buy gleaming fuchsia (stylish) or red (festive) colored high heeled glass bottom stilettos and fill one of it with flowers of appropriate size for a trendy table top which will set off a trendy, modern theme. You can get a pair at...

Tips for Choosing Log Furniture
If you just love that rustic look, and are finally ready to finally buy log furniture for your home, there are a number of “rules of thumb” that can help you in making good choices. Begin by considering the overall style of your home. Do you...