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Rug Tips: A Rug Buying Guide To Help You Make The Best Choice
Rugs are a long-term investment for your home and its appearance, so taking the time to pick the best one for you can determine whether you’re still satisfied with your choice as the years go by. To...
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Old Log Homes: Pros And Cons Of Living In Old Style Log Homes
Dream of living in a log home? (Me too.) If your dream is to live in an old log house, you might want to think twice about it. Certainly, there are lots of good reasons to live in an old log home, but...
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Fireplace Design & Placement Ideas To Help You Answer The Question: Fireplace...
Odds are, if you’re building a log home then you’re probably going to have a fireplace. I guess it would be kind of sacrilegious not to include a fireplace in your log home plans. But, I’ve got to...
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Top 30 Reasons To Appreciate & Enjoy Log Home Living
One of the questions I’m asked the most is “Why did you choose a log home?” I usually give my standard answer — something along the lines of: I like being different. I’ve lived in homes that resembled...
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Cleaning Leather Rugs: How To Care For And Clean Cowhide Rugs & Other Animal...
If you have a log home, chances are you have at least one accent piece made of leather or animal hide. And at some point, it will need cleaned (or at least freshened up a bit). Here are some of the...
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Log Home Kits: 7 Things To Think About Before You Build From A Log Home Kit
Many have tried to make their dream of log home ownership come true with the help of log home kits. Such kits contain everything that’s required to build a weathertight log home from scratch yourself....
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Before You Buy A Front Door For Your New Log Home… Some Reasons To Consider...
Composite doors have the same great look and feel as traditional wood doors. Their construction, however, makes them far more durable. They’re also affordable and very low maintenance. Personally, I’ve...
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Important Tips Before Placing Rugs On Hardwood Floors
Lorraine wrote in recently: I have been all over this site and can’t seem to find a answer on what I should use in front of the doors when you enter my log home with pine wooden floors. So I did a...
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History And Examples Of Craftsman / Arts & Crafts Style Log Homes
I find it interesting that one of the first homes designed in the Arts & Crafts / Craftsman style was a log home built in 1918. And, that Craftsman style log home is still standing in a town near...
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Everything You Want To Know About ChoiceDek And MoistureShield Composite Deck...
Okay, after a 45-minute conversation with the customer service rep at ChoiceDek’s manufacturing plant (and 6 full pages of notes!), I have to say I am quite impressed by what I’ve learned so far. Both...
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Jack And Jill Bathroom Doors Require Space
A word of advice to all DIY home builders, contractors, and home architects... be sure to make enough room so both of the Jack and Jill bathroom doors can be opened at the same time without banging...
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Bathroom Design Tools, Standard Sizes, And Measurements For Bathroom Items
See standard Shower sizes & dimensions, Toilet sizes & space requirements, bathroom Sink spacing issues, Tub placement & sizes, and overall Bathroom Room Sizes for a full bath, small bath,...
View ArticlePros & Cons Of A Shower-Only Bathroom: Do You Really Need A Bathtub For...
Trying to decide if you could live in a house without a tub? And if a shower-only bathroom will hurt your home's resale value? A list of pros & cons. Plus thoughts from someone who's been in your...
View ArticleBuilding A New House? Never Want To Move Again? A List Of Universal Design...
A list of Universal Design new home features you should consider BEFORE building or remodeling your house. Plus reasons to consider "aging in place" in the home of your dreams! I encourage you to give...
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Our Master Bathroom & Spa Shower Plans (…Plus 15 Of The Best Doorless Walk-In...
As a comment to my article about choosing a tub & shower set-up for your master bathroom, Marci wrote: My gosh, you have described the VERY bathroom I’ve been looking for as we prepare to build in...
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Tips For Creating An ‘Idea Notebook’ Filled With Dream House Ideas
Ever since our first year of marriage, I’ve been collecting ideas of things that I want inside my dream home. It started as just an idea file — a single file folder… inside a drawer… that I stuffed...
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Need A Shower Shaving Mirror? Here’s How We Found The Best Anti-Fog Shower...
In our home, Jim shaves his head bald every morning. In addition to a lifetime supply of Gillette Mach 3 razors and replacement blades, it’s a necessity that we have a fog-free shaving mirror located...
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How To Clean & Care For A Copper Sink
Copper has been around since… well the Copper Ages. Around 4,000 BC, during the Eneolithic period, man first began making metal tools. Since those early times, uses for copper has continued to grow....
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Log Homes On Center Hill Lake
Living in Franklin, Tennessee (a suburb of Nashville), we’ve gone to Center Hill Lake quite a few times in the past. But, until last weekend, we had never gone specifically with the purpose of...
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Pros & Cons Of Gas, Electric, And Wood Burning Fireplaces
Wood burning fireplaces, gas fireplaces, and electric fireplaces all have one thing in common: they each bring unique qualities into your home! That said, each has its own distinct advantages and...
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