Placing your house up for sale can cause you to feel a touch of anxiety. You wonder how long your property will take to sell and anticipate meeting new people as you give guided tours of the place. If it isn't necessarily a seller's market, you probably go to great lengths to make the house more attractive. You stage the decor by removing many of your personal items and setting up the interior portions of the home to look like a blank slate that invites potential buyers to imagine themselves living there.

Storms are notorious for producing high winds and heavy rains. If you live near water, storms can also cause hurricanes and floods. Storms can wreak havoc on your home, which is why you need to be prepared. If you're not, you could end up paying a lot of money to make repairs to your home. If you live in an area that gets bad storms or hurricanes, you should stormproof your home before storm season hits.

Have you been doing the countdown to the Christmas holidays? If so, that probably means that you are like a kid about Christmas, aren't you? In fact, the countdown probably isn't December. Instead, you are probably looking forward to Thanksgiving Day, with the plan that you'll decorate your house that very evening or the next day. Are you a traditionalist who wants to decorate the tree in the same manner every year?

Looking to improve the energy efficiency of your home? If so, you may be looking into what it takes to put more insulation in your attic, maybe through a method such as blown attic insulation. Here are some tips for preparing to add more insulation to your attic. Equipment Rental Chances are that you do not have access to the equipment that you need in order to get this job done on your own.

You found a home you love. You made an offer, and the sellers accepted it, but you are still awaiting a home inspection. If you're like most people, you feel a bit nervous and unsure at this point. What will the inspection turn up? How can you ensure it is accurate, and how do you make a decision on the home based on the inspection results? Well, you can start by following these tips for this key phase of the home-buying process.

The right window treatments can add a new dimension to your home décor. If it's time to invest in new window treatments for your home, don't just settle for curtains. Instead, pair your curtains with blinds for maximum beauty, durability, and energy efficiency. Here are four tips to help you avoid mistakes when choosing new blinds for your home. Get the Right Measurements If you're going to be ordering blinds for your windows, make sure you get the right measurements, especially when ordering custom blinds.

A lot of homeowners don't realize the damages that drain cleaning chemicals can do to the pipes in their home, especially if the plumbing system is aged and already in fragile condition. If you've noticed that you have leaking and some other plumbing concerns in a drain that you have poured a lot of chemicals down recently, then you'll want to call a plumber right away. The drain cleaner will remove clogs, but it also causes heating inside the pipes which can soften PVC materials, or erode metal.

Say the word "fertilizer," and most people think of the dark brown, odious material that is only vaguely separated from its previous life as manure. Yet that's not what most fertilizer is, especially for lawns. With lawn fertilizer, you're more likely to have an odor-free pile of tiny pellets that seep into the soil, eventually breaking up and providing nutrients for nearby roots. Sounds harmless enough, right? Yet you still can't walk on the lawn for a while after fertilizer application.