Author: Luke
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How To Bring Feng Shui & Functionality To Your Kitchen
In This Post: It’s important to bring feng shui and functionality to your kitchen, streamlining workflow and making it easy to move between tasks. Considerations include making sure the placement of spices, pots and pans, silverware, garbage can, recycling bin, cleaning supplies, placemats and cutting and cheese boards are logical. These are three areas to focus Read more
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Reflecting Back On 2024 And Being Grateful
As 2024 draws to a close, we’re taking a moment for reflecting back on 2024 and being grateful. During the past few weeks, I needed to shift my focus from home reno and blogging to care for my ailing mother. As a consequence, I also battled a bout of shingles. If you are over the Read more
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Protect Your Home And Family With A Security System
In This Post: Having a security system installed in your home is one of the best ways to protect your home and family. It’s all about peace of mind. These days, security systems are designed Smart, allowing you to activate or deactivate and monitor your home remotely. You can even talk to people at your Read more
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How A New HVAC Improved The Climate In Our Home
In this Post: A weird aspect about our new 2003 Mid-Hudson Valley home: the builders never completed the HVAC System installation! While there was duct work in place in the walls and ceilings, the condenser unit and heat pump were never installed. We relied on oil to heat the house all Winter and there was Read more
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Remodeling Our Deck For A Better Connection With Nature…
In This Post: One of the biggest eyesores of our new home is the back deck. Years of rain and snow wore down the deck and it has vertical spokes, which block the view of the creek behind our house. Remodeling our back deck was a no-brainer. Our goal is to get our back deck Read more
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A New Coat of Paint Makes Such a Difference
In This Post: While renovating our new house, we found one of the easiest and best ways to transform a living space is to give it a new coat of paint. It can impact the whole vibe of your home, creating an inviting and relaxing atmosphere. Starting out When we bought the house, many of Read more
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Our Kitchen Make Over, Going From Ordinary To Amazing…
In This Post: As soon as we walked into the kitchen during our initial house tour, we knew it needed a makeover. The original kitchen had dark wood cabinetry and made us feel very constricted and boxed in, with the peninsula blocking easy access to the back deck. It just wasn’t going to work for Read more
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Replace Your Old Carpeting With New Hardwood Floors…
In This Post: When we purchased our 2003 house we knew we wanted to replace the old carpeting in the three bedrooms with new hardwood floors. That way they would match the floors in the living room, office, stairwell and the second floor landing. In addition to the carpeting being old and dirty, we want Read more
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New Homeowners First Renovation Project In The Hudson Valley…
We’re new homeowners who closed on our 2003 Cape Cod house in the Hudson Valley in February 2022 and are excited to begin our first home renovation project. In the years prior we resided in a 380 sq. foot apartment on New York City’s Upper West Side. While it was functional, it always felt too Read more
