The Three – Month Plan For Selling Your Home
Get Started in March, Sell in June Staging a home for sale can be a complicated process. Since June is the peak month for home sales (both the weather and the typical schedule of employment…
Decorating High Rise Condominiums
Liberate your Arlington, VA condo with Outside-the-Box Interior Design A homeowner out in the suburbs, or a farmer with a cute farmhouse in the hills, has a lot of options when it comes to remodeling. …
Color Combo Special #1: Monotonal Schemes
Sometimes, extreme conservatism can turn into daring. As a general rule of thumb for design, the more colors you use in a decoration scheme, the bolder or “louder” that design becomes. And the bolder it…
Gutter Cleaning 101
Most homeowners think about cleaning their gutters primarily in the fall. While it certainly makes sense to focus on the fallen leaves and other debris that collect around that time of year, gutters can also…
My Deck Is Made Of . . .
Outdoor Building Materials and How To Coat Them (Part Two) Blue Door Painters, DC area coatings contractor, discusses the nature of various outdoor building materials – and the coatings that protect them. My Deck is Made of…
My Deck Is Made Of . . .
Outdoor Building Materials and How To Coat Them (Part One) Blue Door Painters, DC area coatings contractor, discusses the nature of various outdoor building materials – and the coatings that protect them. My Deck is…
Dirty Decks: Pressure-Washing Winter Debris
Many things about the winter actually protect your deck from the kind of beating it gets in the summer. There isn’t the same exposure to the beating sun (in fact, when it snows the deck…
Getting Ready For Spring: Top Five Things To Do
Spring is just around the corner, and you could not be more ready. You know that the day is approaching (if it hasn’t already come) when you will walk out your door and be greeted…
Managing Snow Removal
Winter storms can be absolutely beautiful. Overnight, your neighborhood is transformed from a mundane grid of streets lined with houses to an ethereal, inhuman landscape of delicate white and silver. All the children are outside…
Safe Remodeling: Should I Worry About Lead?
Discussion of the Myths and Facts about the Lead Scare from a Washington, DC area contractor With the warm season fully underway, it is time to seriously consider that remodeling project you have been putting…