Making Your Home and Garden Beautiful

Extra Spots For Marble Countertops

Marble countertops are lovely and durable, and they are relatively easy to care for. They add class and brightness to a kitchen. Yet the kitchen is not the only place where you should consider having marble as your main work surface. While marble has a reputation as being very special, it's also a workhorse (statues weren't made of marble because it was fragile, remember -- this is tough stuff). And there are more areas of your home where marble could be the right countertop material. Read More 

The Steps To Follow When You Want To Have Your Bathroom Remodeled

Does your bathroom need to be remodeled? If it looks incredibly outdated, you may not even like going into the room because you cannot stand the interior design. While you may not be fond of the way the bathroom looks now, you can have it remodeled by professionals to look exactly the way that you would like it to look. Look for Inspiration Start looking at interior design websites and searching for images of bathrooms online to find the inspiration you need for your own bathroom. Read More 

Mistakes To Avoid When Converting Your Bedroom Closet Into A Bathroom

As part of your home remodeling project, you may have decided to turn your master bedroom's walk-in closet into a small bathroom. However, before you start tearing into walls and installing fixtures, make sure you avoid the following mistakes while planning and implementing your plan to convert the closet into a bathroom. Neglecting to Take Space Into Account When you picture your dream master bathroom, you may picture a large bathtub with jets and a toilet area with an intricately designed partition wall. Read More 

How To Deal With The Presence Of Mice In Your Home

Seeing evidence of mice in your house may have you wondering what you can do to prevent them from continuing to cause trouble. Some commonly suggested solutions aren't ones that everyone can try, such as a person with allergies getting a cat. Putting out mouse traps is likely to only be effective in a limited area rather than across your whole home. These three solutions, however, will help you put together a multi-pronged approach to keeping mice out of your residence. Read More 

Mistakes To Avoid While Caring For Your New Granite Countertops

If you have recently had granite countertops installed in your kitchen, you may think that their durable properties mean you do not have to do anything special to them. However, if you want them to maintain their pristine appearance, avoid the following mistakes while caring for your new granite countertops. Forgetting to Reseal the Countertops Since granite is naturally porous, the stone is sealed before it is installed in your kitchen to help protect the surface from dirt and chemicals that can penetrate into the stone and stain it. Read More