Something that most home builders neglect to consider is the height of their new residents. And why would they? An average home has an average of 6 families during an 80 year life span. Usually designing for the average American is what they have in mind, but what is the height for an average American? In a recent story, homeowners reveal their experience in adding new cabinets to their home.
The cabinets have proven to be more challenging than we first envisioned.
First, when you buy cabinets (one word, right?), you are actually ordering like 125 parts, including screws and hinges and invisible parts. So we had to pay extra for delivery of this jumbo order. We also, dumbly, had to pay extra for storage; we thought we were being smart by going to Ikea 30-40 days in advance, but they charged us for not being able to deliver when the order was ready. You live and you learn. Full Story.
Written by larrylarr on June 4th, 2008 with no comments.
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Home Improvement Loans? Do Southern Californians still have enough equity to even apply for these? According to the media, I am surprised we haven’t broken out into the soup line of a long ago Soviet Union. A cool article giving those of us that are remodeling with borrowed funds can be found below.
Remodeling areas of your home that are beginning to look dated is always a good idea but money is often the issue that needs to be addressed. this is the purpose of a home improvement loan. Tradesmen such as carpenters, electricians, plumbers, plasterers are an expensive addition to the overall home improvement budget but for many homeowners they have no alternative as their own skills are not sufficient.
A home improvement loan is a borrowing option that is open to most homeowners and there’s a choice for you to take a secured loan or a loan with no equity required. The last responsibility a new homeowner wants is that of it being used as equity for a loan to improve it. The maximum (more…)
Written by larrylarr on April 11th, 2008 with no comments.
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