Decorating for Spring – On a Budget!

After the cold, dark months of winter, is there anything more exciting than Spring? These warmer months bring vibrant colors, cool breezes, and sunshine. What better way to usher out the snow and welcome the season with an indoor makeover? Celebrate Spring with these budget-friendly indoor decorating tips. De-clutter your home. During the winter, homes tend to…

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Quick Tips to Help with Spring Cleaning

Winter is finally slipping away and we’re starting to feel refreshed, and ready for the change that spring brings. One of the most popular rites of spring is doing an overhaul of your home’s interior—cleaning, purging, reorganizing, and perhaps redecorating. But before you launch into a full-scale attack, here are some helpful spring cleaning tips…

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Take your spring cleaning outside: Exterior maintenance checklist

Spring cleaning is not just an indoor sport. The outside of your home needs some sprucing up this time of year, too. Follow this exterior maintenance checklist and take your spring cleaning outside. Wash the walls. You might be surprised at how much dirt has built on your home’s exterior walls. Use a pressure washer…

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First Day of Spring Cleaning Tips!

Happy first day of Spring! A new season can mean a new fresh start, and now is the perfect time to clean house and get rid of the old to make room for the new.  Making a checklist is the best way to stay on task, and you always feel accomplished when you can cross…

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Clutter versus Keepers: How to get (and stay) organized

When you move into a new home, you usually start by getting organized. When you were packing up your belongings, you probably purged a lot of items, just to lighten your load. Before long, you see signs that the clutter bug is back. Mail, magazines, and an assortment of papers are scattered on tables, counters,…

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Post-holiday home touch-ups

The party’s over. Friends and family members have gone home. You’re taking down the holiday decorations, with far less enthusiasm than when you festooned your home with the sparkle, glitter, ribbons, bows, and scents that put you in the holiday spirit. Now you’re seeing the fresh scars on the wood furniture, stains on the rugs…

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