Keeping Your Home Cool for the Summer

Keeping Your Home Cool for the Summer

One of the great benefits of a modern home is its nature as an oasis. It’s an area of the world you control! That control is especially useful when the weather outside refuses to cooperate, giving you a space of climate-controlled comfort. North Carolina Triangle...
Long-Term Carpet Care Tips and Tricks

Long-Term Carpet Care Tips and Tricks

There’s nothing quite like plush carpet. Hardwoods have the aesthetic charm, but clean, fresh carpet can give your home an undeniably comfy feel. Likewise, messy carpets are definitely not fun: stains, pet hair, and dirt can turn it from lovely to repulsive quickly....
Winter Projects to Warm Up Your Home

Winter Projects to Warm Up Your Home

Winter shows up every year as your uninvited guest. He brings short days, low temperatures and post-holiday blues. Our activities move inside – at least when the snow melts – and as a result, we use our homes more. That forced inside time is a great opportunity to...
The Newbie’s Guide to Home Automation

The Newbie’s Guide to Home Automation

Remember the Jetsons? How convenient would it be to have Rosie the Robot, a humanlike but subservient robot to attend to our every need? While that time is far away – and honestly, a bit creepy – the age of basic home automation is already upon us. In fact, it’s...