Tips & Trends
Getting away without leaving home
It’s great to live at a time when women can have it all: career, home and family. But let’s face it, there are times when we feel like a piece of taffy being pulled in every direction at the same time. Our need to retreat from all of the pressures – to relax and rejuvenate [...]
Home Design Dogma – Creating a Pet-friendly home
Cindy is an entrepreneurial mother of 4 running two home-based businesses. Lori is a newlywed and substitute teaches. Barb is a corporate accountant and happily single. Other than being neighbors, what do they have in common? They see their dogs as full-fledged family members! So it is with many of the 4 in 10 US [...]
Setting The Stage For Resale
Professional Presentations to Help Sell Your Home Sprucing up a home before putting it on the market is hardly a new idea. Most of us have been through the process of repainting walls, replacing carpets, scouring kitchens and bathrooms and meticulously manicuring the yard. Today, many home sellers are going a step farther: hiring an [...]
Networking Brings Friends/Family Home
UNDOUBTEDLY, WOMEN LEAD INCREDIBLY BUSY AND productive lives, and more and more of them are integrating social media into their daily routines. According to a recent survey by BlogHer, the women’s blog network, of the 79 million adult women in the U.S. that use the internet, 42 million participate in social media. While there are [...]
The 3 Faces Of Design
How form, function and social design elements influence our product purchase decisions. Her Home Magazine spoke with some unlikely bedfellows: Kohler (plumbing products), ThermaTru (exterior doors,) InSinkErator (food waste disposers,) and Wilsonart (counter tops,) to identify the appeals designed into some of their products for the home. Though the ingredients were different, their recipes were [...]
The Practical Side of Goods Design
Beethoven had his piano. Picasso his brushes. Similarly, today’s homebuyers tend to initially judge builders on their “artistic” architecture—with blueprints their sheet music and their 3-D canvas of wood, glass and stone. But beyond the visual and social appeals, it is often the thoughtful, practical side of good design which helps buyers choose one home [...]
Garages – The New flex room
Evolving from mere auto storage units, today’s garages are often serving multiple roles. The most common is storage. But increasingly, garages are being used for a variety of other purposes, dictated by the activity(s) envisioned. Here are issues and solutions for expanding the usability of your garage, based on what we’ve been hearing from you. [...]
Special Considerations For Making Your Garage A “Flex Space”
ELECTRICAL. Building codes only require one electrical outlet in your garage. Obviously, that’s not going to be enough. If you have planned how you want your garage to “flex”, you can have sufficient electrical outlets installed exactly where you want them. CABLE TV. Wireless cable TV signals are in the not-too-distant future. But for now, [...]