Posts in Category: Home Renovation Tips

Adding a porch or sunroom is a great way to gain extra square footage in your home. While this not only adds value to your home, it also is an easy and affordable way to enjoy your natural surroundings. However, simply building a sunroom shouldn't be where the process ends.

Is your porch looking old and tired? Front porch repair can be as simple as replacing a few weathered boards and adding a new coat of paint. With the right mix of furnishings, décor and other aesthetics, this can be your family’s favorite place to gather. There are other changes to consider that may make the front, or back, porch a more usable and comfortable space that your family will love.

Seasonal décor will make your home feel more welcoming all year round.  Decorating your home has a wonderful impact during the gloomy winter months when our souls are hungry for color and visual interest. Decorating the porch in winter can seem daunting, especially if you live in a cold climate where it’s impossible to keep outdoor plants alive from November through March.  Don’t worry about that though, even without live plants there many options to choose from depending on the type of porch you have and what inspires you.

Since your home is your biggest single investment, home improvements can add to its value. Any money you spend there is normally recouped in the form of equity. The housing market has not fully recovered and many homeowners who wanted to sell their home and move on are now stuck in a place that’s too small for their growing family. Combine those two facts and you’ve got the perfect reasons to embark on a home addition project.

One of the best ways to increase the value of your home is to increase the total amount of square footage. This is usually done by adding a room onto your home’s existing floor plan. In this post we’ll explore some home addition ideas. Given that one of the crucial elements of perfecting your new space is having a functional and well-built roof, we will look at the roof addition possibilities for each option. 

Do you like the home you’re in now? Do you appreciate your neighbors and are happy with your home’s location, but still feel cramped at times? Do you yearn for extra space to entertain company or relax and take a breather?

The solution is not to find boxes and rent a U-Haul truck to move to another location. We all know how frustrating that can be. The key is to turn that comfortable place that you love into your dream home.

As going green is becoming increasingly popular, there is a renewed love for nature, and a yearning to experience indoor comfort in the outdoors. Not all of us have a desire to be rugged hunters and fishermen sitting on stumps of wood near a bonfire, but we also don’t want to be trapped indoors during the summer. The experts agree that coming up with great patio and screened-in room ideas will help you experience indoor comfort while basking in the graceful beauty and charm of the outdoors. Here are some patio ideas that will inspire you. 

Learn how to prepare your patio for the spring and summer with step-by-step patio cleaning tips.

Spring is in the air, and with the blooming flowers and warmer weather comes the opportunity to sit on your porch and enjoy the fresh air. Whether you are sipping lemonade on your screened-in lanai or waving to neighbors from your favorite rocking chair, you’ll probably want to spruce up your home with fun and colorful decorations that denote the change of season. Here are a few spring porch decorating ideas to get you started.

Buffalo is a beautiful city full of interesting architecture. Many have described the architecture in this city as distinctly American. One of the most influential elements in the architectural history of Buffalo connects directly to sunrooms.