Essential Chimney Maintenance Tips
One thing to remember about your chimney is that it can act as entrance to your home for a number of unwanted things—from living or dead creatures to random debris and frigid air. Proper home improvement chimney maintenance is critical to ensuring all three keep their distance. But another thing to remember is that a failure to perform chimney upkeep can also prevent certain things from getting out of our home—like the carbon monoxide produced when you light a fire.
Tags: fireplace
Front Door Paint Ideas
One of the things the New Year represents is new beginnings. And a way to rejuvenate your home for the New Year is to paint the front door. A freshly painted front door adds instant curb appeal, and helps it stand out from the rest of the doors in the neighborhood. It says you care [...]
Tags: front door, paint
Winter Moving Tips
You can’t always pick your moment. Sometimes, circumstance dictates that what you’d much rather put off for spring or summer must happen now—regardless of how cold it is outside or what a pain in the derriere moving in winter can be. But you don’t have to go it alone and you don’t have to bumble your way through it.
Tags: Cold weather, moving
Build.com Set For Corporate Giving in 2012
What began as a friendly battle for sales supremacy soon evolved into monthly donations to charity. Build.com is gearing up for some fun corporate giving.
Tags: American Red Cross, corporate giving, Habitat For Humanity, Livestrong
Build.com Donation Initiative
On Aug. 25, 2011, the president of Build.com, Christian Friedland, bet our top salesman, Gary Clark, that he could outsell him in a four-hour competition. But it evolved into something bigger than just the contest.
Tags: charity, giving
Home Humidifiers — Helping You Stay Healthy This Winter
Love it or hate it, winter is a reality we’ve all got to deal with. One of the certainties of winter is increased exposure to colds and flus, either of which can make suffering through bitter cold all the more intolerable. But what if you could buy an appliance that would help keep you healthy and warmer at the same time? If this sounds too good to be true, it’s not. It’s just the way a home humidifier works.
Tags: Humidifier
4 Design Inspirations For the Home
Inspiration can come in all shapes and forms. Most often, though, it comes in the form of imagery. Here are few pictures of areas in the home that recently caught our eye.
Tags: fireplace, home office, inspiration, Pinterest, soaking tub
5 New Trends in Outdoor Decor
You don’t have to pull a Clark W. Griswold and run up a $5,000 light bill to show your neighbors you’ve got holiday spirit. In fact, there are far less time-consuming and much more inexpensive methods of doing so that won’t get you labeled the neighborhood nut job. Here are 5 of the coolest trends in outdoor holiday décor to try out.
Tags: decorate, holiday
ENERGY STAR rating: How does it work?
I recently read on the Consumer Reports blog that certain ENERGY STAR-rated dishwashers will lose that status as of Jan. 20, 2012. According to the post, dishwashers that “qualify for Energy Star must be about 9 percent more energy-efficient, and use almost 27 percent less water, than before.” Essentially, the models that were shipped out [...]
Tags: Dishwasher, energy-star rated
Recycle Your Christmas
Now that Thanksgiving is in your rearview mirror, it’s time to start thinking about Christmas, and what you can do to be more conscious of the environment.
Tags: Christmas, eco, holiday
