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More than one quarter (26%) of home owners who have completed a DIY project reported injuries to themselves or someone else in their household during a home maintenance project, according to a survey by the National Safety Council and 3M TEKK Protection. Read the rest of this entry »

Once the guests have left for home, the holiday’s spills and heavy traffic show up on the carpet. Get your carpets cleaned before the stains create difficult to remove spots. Save $50 on three rooms… Read the rest of this entry »

One of the holiday’s many wonders are presents and after the FaLaLa is over we must store our new found treasures. Once again, Martha Stewart has some great storage ideas for us. Read the rest of this entry »

What a great idea for the holidays when we do most of the year’s wrapping in a few short days. Keeping everything organized and in view saves time and frustration. Ever run down to the store for more tags only to find the ones you bought on sale at the end of last season buried under some paper? Read the rest of this entry »

Finally…the fall chill has arrived and it seems right to be contemplating just how we will prepare this year’s bird. This question has always prompted much debate in my household for there are the traditionalists and the experimentalists…with me falling into the latter category. Read the rest of this entry »

The problem with refinishing cabinets is the painstaking and time consuming stripping process. It is so unpleasant that many cabinet companies won’t refinish cabinets any longer. What a waste to throw away perfectly good doors to reface an entire kitchen! Along comes Rust-Oleum with their Cabinet Transformations product. There is a finish for nearly every taste in cabinetry. A handy homeowner could do this him or herself or hire Abriza for the task at 1/2 the cost of refinishing. Read the rest of this entry »

Martha Stewart shares a great organization idea with us – an Office in a Box! These are the weeks when we get our children settled at college. They may be settling into an apartment for the first time. My daughter, Alex, age 20, went off to Tucson with my oldest son, Devon, age 28, to furnish Alex’s first apartment…a duplex with scant 300 square feet. Read the rest of this entry »

Yesterday, I heard a sad failed home maintenance story. A business associate told me about a friend who recently went on vacation to have the time of her life only to return to a $35,000 home maintenance disaster emanating from the all too familiar ice maker hose behind the refrigerator. The hoses installed by the manufacturer are often thin and they turn brittle after a few years. Read the rest of this entry »

Great news on the real estate front! A Realtor, Scott Daniel, in my neighborhood bought and improved a property on Fox Hollow in Anaheim Hills. The home is exquisite! Read the rest of this entry »

Preventative home maintenance is so much less expensive than reactive home maintenance. Take pests for example! Termites are a fact of life in Southern California and yet we keep building wood frame homes. Go figure! Even if our homes were steel frame, the little varmints find their way to the baseboards, drywall and all of the other facings and elements of a home that contain wood. Read the rest of this entry »