by Alison Moore Smith | Feb 21, 2012 | for Home
According to BankRate, there are a few home upgrades that pay off for resale. The suggestions are: Upgrade the kitchen with nicer cabinets, fancier hardware, and good fixtures. Make your kitchen appliances match in color/design. Spruce up the bathrooms with new...
by Alison Moore Smith | Sep 24, 2011 | for Home
When we were building the house, I had a file full of designs I loved. One of the recurring themes was glass tile. Especially glass subway tile. I'd seen it in about every home design book and magazine I'd read through, and had fallen in love with the look. In our...
by Alison Moore Smith | Nov 15, 2010 | for Home
Upon moving into our custom home, the prospect of maintaining and caring for all the new surfaces and materials became our responsibility. Our granite countertops were one of the bigger materials investments. But online advice for cleaning and care vary widely. Many...
by Alison Moore Smith | Nov 4, 2010 | for Fun, for Home
Moving twice in the past two months— not to mention the past year building a custom home — has left me much in need of R&R. I'd take a long, hot bubble bath in my jacuzzi tub…except that someone on the building crew misplaced the tub's plug. I'm thinking a long...
by Alison Moore Smith | Oct 25, 2010 | for Home
If you're looking for gorgeous granite countertops, but looking to keep the granite costs down, I have just the thing for discount granite countertops: granite remnants. On our first house, the granite fabricator required us to purchase entire slabs of granite. When...
