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# Home Improvement Tips To Make Life At Home A Little Better

by Steve Ormand | Sep 14, 2015 | Consumer Education 101 | 0 comments

You have repairs that need to be done to your house, but you do not know where to begin. Is this you? It is very common for people to put off doing home improvements because they do not know where to start. With any luck, this article may help you keep your home current.

## Laminate Floors

Instead of laminate floors, consider real wood. Laminate floors may look like real wood and be easier to clean, however they cannot be refinished. Many years in the future, you or someone else will need to replace the flooring, rather than just refinishing it.

You can use old shoe boxes to add additional storage space. Use scraps of attractive fabric or wallpaper to cover the shoe boxes. This way you get an extra storage solution while adding drama and design to your room.

The commercially available shades for your lamp tend to be mundane and lack creativity. Buy some cheap stencils at your local craft store, and using some acrylic paint or dye based ink pad, dab around the designs, transferring them to your lamp shade. Spicing up your lamp shades will make a surprising difference in the personality of a room.

Construction adhesive can help eliminate a squeaking floor. You’ll have to work from the basement or in the crawlspace but the effort will be worth it. You just need to run a bead of glue down the floor joist seams to help secure the sub-flooring.

## Radiant Heat Tiles

Redoing your floors with new tiles can be a great idea, but adding radiant heat tiles will bring a whole new level of comfort to your floors. Not only do they look great, but they are the best for giving off heat. Fortunately, radiant heat tiles can be easily installed at home without hiring a professional. That makes it something you may add onto, whether or not you do it yourself or hire a professional. You will be happy in the winter when you are going to the bathroom.

When you undertake any home improvement project, don’t destroy things too quickly. Always double check structures behind walls and cabinets before ripping them down. If there are electrical components involved, you may have to spend a lot of money to fix the mess that you made.

Upon selling a home, every part of the home should have a clearly defined purpose. Rooms such as the office and family room need the proper furniture to accompany them. This allows potential buyers to see themselves within the space, allowing them the opportunity to determine how they’d use it. This makes the home more attractive and likely to sell faster.

Consider the “age-in-place” method when making a major renovation. Age-in-place is simply a design philosophy which takes into account how homeowners age while they own the house. This ensures you can live in the home well into your golden years.

In conclusion, anyone can do home improvement. For inexperienced people, there is some solid advice out there. The article you just read can help you do that. You can do a lot of the work yourself now that you’ve learned this information.

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