Category: Eclectic Homes

What's a 2-10 Home Buyers Warranty?

When cash is tight, an unexpected home repair or the replacement of a system or appliance can cause a severe fiscal crisis. This situation is a possibility. Home warranties such as the 2-10 Home Buyers Warranty can minimize the effect of expensive repairs in both newly built and resold houses. Identification The 2-10 Home Buyers […]

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How Do I Reduce the Premium on My Homeowner's Insurance Policy?

Even smart shoppers can have a couple issues working against them in their quest to reduce an insurance policy premium. The age of the house, construction materials used and place can factor into an insurance policy premium. Homes situated outside city limits, positioned further than 1,000 feet from a fire hydrant or in a distance […]

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Low-Income Housing Projects

Every state in the U.S. struggles with the problem of affordable housing for low-income employees. In California, the average hourly wage of a tenant is $17.09. Employing the standard that you should devote no longer than 30% of your income on utilities and rent, a lease of $889 is deemed cheap at this wage. The […]

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What's Going to Raise a Home's Evaluation Value?

An appraisal has a significant effect when you are getting a new or refinanced mortgage on your house. An appraisal is an evaluation of your house 's monetary value by a licensed professional. The appraisal offers documentation to a mortgage lender that your house is worth the total amount of the loan. Exterior The outside […]

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A Radical Reconstruction Raises an Austin Home

It’s a simple fact of life: Growing families need growing spaces. Architect J.C. Schmeil knows this firsthand. A decade ago he added 700 square feet to his 1935 bungalow in Austin, Texas, when his second son was born. After his two boys lately begun edging toward the adolescent mark, he decided it was time to […]

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10 Stylish Possibilities for Shower Enclosures

A shower is one of the first things you notice when you step into a toilet, so ensure that your enclosure not only matches your personality but also accentuates your toilet. We’ve all seen or lived at a home with the ever-so-famous enclosure framed in polished brass, but there are plenty of other choices with […]

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Plantation Grandeur Rises at a Home's Back Addition

“Often farm homes needed to look striking from the front, and then whatever occurred on the back just occurred,” says architect Cameron Scott. The hodgepodge he struck along the back of his customers’ house in Jackson was no exception. When the house was constructed in 1904, another smokehouse had served as the place where servants […]

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10 Terrific Aids for Your New Year's Resolutions

Every year I pick that I really don’t need to generate any New Year’s resolutions, because I must be — theoretically — shifting my bad habits throughout the year. But every year, right around New Year’s Eve, I realize there are several bad habits that have been lingering way beyond their due date, and the […]

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Sentimental Favorites Warm Up a Vancouver Home

Marc Herman moved from England to Canada several years ago seeking adventure and a lifetime change. He obtained both. Now he’s happily married to Leah Bailey, along with both have welcomed a baby girl, Lily, in the world. Six months ago the couple gave up their Yaletown attic space for a more family-friendly house in […]

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Tech to the Rescue: How to Get Stolen Gadgets Rear

If you’re not careful, you could be the victim of a home burglary, and a clown might wind up with your valuables. That is what happened to late Apple founder Steve Jobs’ family. After their Palo Alto, California, residence was burglarized, among Jobs’ own iPads was used by a performer who goes by the title […]

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