The most popular Split Level house renovations are projects to finish unfinished or partly finished areas, opening up the main floor, updating the kitchen, adding bathrooms to the main (formal living area) floor and to the upper level (bedrooms area).

Many people want to create more openness in the main floor of a split level, which [...]

Home landscape design matters. A study commissioned by the Professional Landcare Network states it in financial terms: Homes that have been professionally landscaped bring 15-20 percent more upon resale than those with no home landscape design. From an aesthetic viewpoint, it delivers pleasure. “The importance of home landscape design is that it creates an experience [...]

If we were to have a truly native landscape in Houston Texas it would look like an abandon field of various grasses, a thicket edge of tangled vines, shrubs and underbrush or a mature grove of oaks with leaf ground cover underneath. These landscapes are beautiful out in the countryside but in our suburban enclaves [...]

When selling a home many home owners think about doing some renovations of improvements to increase their asking price and thereby increasing their bottom line selling price. While some renovations are excellent choices for this, there are some that may not bring in the kind of money sellers expect. In thinking about this kind of [...]

While many excellent articles exist detailing cost-versus-value of home renovations, the truth of the matter is… your home is only as valuable as the neighborhood it sits in. Period. Let me give an example. You buy a home for $200,000 in a neighborhood of $200,000 homes and dump $50,000 in a sun room, renovating the [...]

It is often difficult for people starting with Interior Design to know where to start. Good interior design or style mainly arises out of a feeling, flair or an intuition for colour, pattern and scale. For this to be rewarding or pleasing the end result must be functional, practical and stylish.

To get you going with [...]

If variety is the spice of life, then it is no wonder that we embrace change in our everyday lives. From the clothes we wear, to the way we decorate our homes change helps keep things fresh and new. But when it comes to our home’s landscaping, change is not as easy as buying a [...]

Complete basement and Bathroom Renovations can be very expensive! Installing a bathroom in your basement costs about $3000 more because there is a lot of extra work involved for drainage.
The average basement can be completed including walls, laundry, bedrooms, bathroom for around $30,000 and up. $10,000 for a bathroom and $20,000 for the rest. This [...]

Landscaping your garden is not such a difficult task. Many people enjoy doing it themselves. You’ve just got to have the ideas and know the basic principles of landscape design.
Begin by taking a close look at the gardens and parks in your neighborhood, identifying the consistency, balance, simplicity, proportions, transitions, lines and contrasts in the [...]

A house is judged upon mainly by its exterior looks. The grandeur of the house is characterized by the walls, its texture, the paints that are used etc. You can perform the exterior house painting all by yourself. All it requires is some common sense about colors and the class paints that you need to [...]