Homeowners are proceeding cautiously with renovations. Whereas in the past they might have insisted on getting exactly what they wanted, price be damned, today’s home remodelers actually care about value and practicality. Imagine that.
Home Improvement
The Associated Press reports that the Phillips LED light bulb that won the government’s L Prize—a $10 million contest to replace the traditional incandescent bulb—will go on sale as of Earth Day with a full retail price of $60. Yes, that’s $60 per bulb, not $60 for an entire house full of bulbs.
Laziness is often accompanied by guilt. But when it comes to your lawn, there’s ample justification to do less rather than more—saving time and money and being kinder to Mother Nature while you’re at it.
Considering that Black Friday is a totally made-up event meant to stir up retail sales during the peak winter holiday shopping season, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that stores are loosey-goosey with what “Black Friday” means. Even so, the current Black Friday hosted by Home Depot seems a bit much.
The next big thing in residential real estate isn’t big at all. It’s small. Because of cost and aesthetic considerations, a strong “anti-McMansion attitude” has surfaced among home designers and buyers, according to one of the judges of an annual home design contest. Forget about ornate rooflines, gigantic kitchens, and much of the unnecessarily wasted [...]
You could wait for the government to fix the housing crisis, or you could simply wait for the housing market to rebound. In either case, though, you might be waiting a long time for anything to happen. Instead of just hoping for a solution to magically appear, why not actually do something about it?
Signs indicate that the mild non-winter of 2011-2012 is giving the economy a much-needed boost. Warm weather has helped employment in fields such as construction, and also helped consumers save on heating bills. More jobs, and a little more money in American consumers’ pockets, have meant increased spending at places such as home improvement stores, [...]
While experts continue to warn that housing has not yet hit bottom, a slew of indicators suggest otherwise. The latest is a stellar quarterly earnings report from Home Depot, which is benefitting from hopeful owners sprucing up for the spring selling season.
With season two of PBS’s blockbuster “Downton Abbey” reaching its climactic conclusion Sunday night, we may have just the cure for your period-piece hangover. You might not think it, but there are a number of majestic residences, much like Downton’s Highclere Castle, right here in the U.S. And many are actually for sale.
Where you live affects who you date—and who will absolutely refuse to date you. In honor of Valentine’s Day, the real estate website Trulia commissioned Harris Interactive to conduct a survey looking at the intersection of attitudes about housing and romance. Are homeowners regarded as “marriage material” more so than noncommital renters? Are people more [...]
At one time, upper- and middle-class shopping centers turned up their noses at dollar stores, assuming that their presence would hurt the image of neighboring retailers, as well as the area as a whole. My, how times have changed.
