Home Humidifiers — Helping You Stay Healthy This Winter
Clean air outside is natural. A home humidifier can help clear the air inside your home. 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...
Continue Reading4 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 on Pinterest. Source: dornob.com via Build.com on Pinterest Just the sight of this in-ground soaking tub drops my blood pressure. This Zen-inspired bathroom features bold angles, gentle...
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5 New Trends in Outdoor Decor
Going all out decorating the front yard is on its way out this Christmas. Folks are downsizing and moving toward traditional scenes instead. Build.com is introducing a new guest blogger. Carolyn McKibbin comes to us from MyMove.com, an online resource for everything you need to simplify a move into a new home. This is the first of many guest posts to come from...
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ENERGY STAR rating: How does it work?
Products must earn the ENERGY STAR logo. How do they do it? 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,...
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Christmas Recycling
By taking a few precautions now, you can easily make this Christmas your most eco-friendly holiday ever. We all love our Christmas trees. Sometimes we escape into nature to trudge up hills through rain or snow and cut the tree down ourselves—a hands-on approach that’s both invigorating and rewarding. Other times, we settle for a converted tree lot next to...
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4 Trendsetting Home Improvement Products
Kohler's kitchen sink from its Ashland collection features cast iron construction, one of the most durable and versatile materials. As 2011 winds to a close, let’s take a look a what’s new at Build.com in plumbing, lighting, and door hardware—and what’s likely to set trends for 2012. Cast iron Kohler has built its reputation around innovating and...
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The Gates Foundation’s Reinvent the Toilet Challenge
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is doling out $42 million in an attempt to find a university that can give the modern flush toilet a much-needed overhaul. The idea is to devise a new and efficient throne that can be used safely in poor and under-developed countries. Did you know that an estimated 2.6 billion people worldwide lack access to a flush toilet?...
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Stained Glass at Home
Stained glass is truly art for your home. This piece was designed by Needham Studios in Chico, Callf., for a residential setting. It portrays a scene from Lower Bidwell Park, the crown jewel of the Northern California town. The ways to improve the look of a home are practically infinite. From lighting and painting to door hardware and wall art, the sheer number...
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Dark Sky Lighting Battling Light Pollution
Even though nighttime lighting is essential for some of our after-dark activities, light pollution is beginning to affect the eating habits of nocturnal animals as well as the migratory patterns of birds. We humans like our nights, and we sure love to light them up, don’t we? But is there a tipping point for too much night lighting? Indeed there might be,...
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Homework Centers For the Kids
Putting together a quality homework center for your kids can possibly help them become more efficient in their homework efforts. We adults tend to love our home offices. So what about an area where our littlest busybodies, our children, can do their homework? Creating the optimal homework center is an on-going process (speaking from first-hand experience), and,...
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