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Design Recipes: How to Find the Right Color Combo for your Space
Pairing the right colors together can add interest while also creating an inviting space.
Design Recipes: Furniture that fits
Have you ever purchased furniture, only to have it delivered and realize it’s not quite the right fit? You are not alone.
The Lighter Side: Who’s missing garage sales? Some kooky folks but not me
For some people, the lack of garage sales during the pandemic has been a loss. Not for me; I’ve had enough for a lifetime.
Northern Colorado Air, Inc. Improving the Air You Breathe
The pandemic has brought Northern Coloradans indoors with more hours working remotely and limited social outings—and breathing stale air makes the experience less than pleasant.
Ask Angie’s List: How Can My Landscaping Prevent Basement Flooding?
Landscaping is your first and most effective line of defense against a flooded basement. Consider these steps to ease up the water pressure. A landscaping professional can help you sort out your options and recommend the best steps.
Design Recipes: How to Maximize Furniture Placement in Small Spaces
Whether a bedroom, living room or other space, regardless of the home’s size, some of the biggest furniture placement challenges often come from rooms that are oddly shaped or overly small. How do you properly place furniture? Here are some top tips for small spaces.
The night sky: Colorado’s darkest natural resource
Since gold-seeking pioneers of the late 1850s pulled their wagons into what’s now Settler’s Park, Boulder’s inky night sky has acted as both a resource and an asset to our area’s quality of life.
The Lighter Side: Houseguests coming – Finally things will get done
Like most writers, I need a deadline to really get my brain popping and my fingers clicking. Unfortunately, this doesn’t just apply to my work, but my personal life as well.
Top tips for an Impeccably Tidy Home for Fall
The silver lining of our pandemic summer is a welcome opportunity to pare down & clean out, especially with the start of school approaching.
The Lighter Side: Musings about Houseplants: From Hipster to Horrendous
It’s funny that certain houseplants – and houseplants in general – are now considered in style. Every creative hipster has a few in their well-designed abodes: usually one in a glass orb hanging from the ceiling, a couple of structural succulents on table tops, a fiddle-leaved fig in a corner, and some vine-y plant tacked to a wall, usually behind a bed frame. I love it all!
Does Your Home Fit You Anymore? – Part One
Once upon a time, your house was your home and your office was your work place. But in this New Normal, maybe your house doesn’t fit you anymore. What to do?
The Lighter Side: And Now for Some Soft News: In Praise of Accent Pillows
Times are hard, so let’s talk about something soft: accent pillows. I am Spock-like logical when is comes to buying most home furnishings, but accent pillows are my shopping Achilles’ heel.
The Lighter Side: Those Darn Kids – How They Ruin Your Home Stuff (and Make it Better)
My neat-as-a-pin mother-in-law used to like when her grandchildren visited her house and left their grimy paw prints all over her pristine glass doors. She would say lovingly, “It makes me so happy to see those handprints after you all have left and remember our good time together.” I
K-Guard Leaf-Free Gutter System: Maintenance-Free for Life
K-Guard gutters have no choke points, cannot clog, and require no maintenance. Ever. Your days of scooping out leaves and undetermined gunk are over.
Nex-Gen Windows and Doors: Making Your Home Safe and Comfortable
With COVID-19, people are spending more time and working more hours in their homes. Replacing windows and doors can create a more comfortable environment.
The Lighter Side: I’m a home nerd. How about you?
Confession: I’m a home nerd. I’m a bit too much into all our house stuff: mechanical systems, appliances, finishes, you name it. I’m also way overly fond of tools and gadgets. Perhaps if you’re reading this, you share this affliction.
Top 2020 Kitchen Design Trends
Even as businesses slowly begin to reopen, it’s clear that restaurant dining won’t be as prevalent or easy as it was in pre-pandemic times. This means more time in the kitchen, so it’s a perfect time to make your kitchen a happy, comfortable space where you and your family can cook and gather.
Entertaining: Easy Breezy Dining
One of the biggest challenges of cooking is all the time meal prep takes. Hot meals can eat up entire afternoons with work. But it turns out there are several ways to speed up the process and keep the table satisfied. The keyword is “efficiency.”
Style at Home: How to Create the Perfect Video Call Backdrop
During COVID-19, many have been using video services like Zoom and FaceTime more than ever, in doing so have discovered the need for a better background.
Ask the Expert: Fire Mitigation
Fire mitigation is a series of steps that you can take to reduce the risk of a wildfire damaging or destroying your property. It includes assessing the risks around your property and your responsibility in mitigating them, thereby creating a defensible space.
When Hail Strikes… Loveland Roofing Gets Roofs Right
Loveland Roofing has specialized in home roofing services – inspections, repairs and total roof replacements for more than 20 years in Northern Colorado.
Extra Time at Home Reveals What We Love – Or Don’t – About Our Homes
There’s no place like home—and lately the pandemic has forced millions nationwide to be, for the most part, in no place but home. This prolonged time being homebound has cast a spotlight on aspects of our home we absolutely love, those we could love more, and things we don’t love at all.
Ask Angie’s List: How Can I Perk Up My Porch?
Whether your porch is a place to have a cup of coffee, watch your kids play, or dine alfresco on a nice summer evening, it’s probably not the first place you think of when considering home repairs and upgrades.
Design Recipes: Try These Affordable Designer Hacks
Good design doesn’t have to be expensive to look expensive. The trick in achieving a look for less is in many cases to look for affordable alternatives to blend into your existing decor.
Exercise at Home: Using Your Home Gym or Equipping Your Space
Now that social distancing and closed workout facilities mean we can’t go to the gym, it’s time to freshen our at-home workouts.
Ask the Expert: Easy Home Projects During COVID-19
Everything seems to be getting cleaned these days. Beyond disinfecting all your high-touch surfaces, consider tackling some of the tasks you avoid doing.
Top Design Trends in the Age of COVID
In the wake of the state’s ‘Shelter at Home’ order, many of us have a new perspective on how our home can support our lives. Here are the top take-aways…
Ask the Expert: Foundations
There are several warning signs that home inspectors can look for on the interior and exterior of homes that may point to problems or possible future problems with foundations. Almost all houses settle over time and a few things being out of level should not be a...
Northern Colorado Air, Inc.: Helping You Breathe Fresh Air Again
Northern Colorado Air is keenly aware of how crucial air quality is and proudly recommends, installs and maintains air purification products.
Coronavirus Cyberattacks and Phishing Scams Endanger Your Home Network
With the rise of IoT (Internet of Things) devices throughout your home, cyber attacks can put your network and devices throughout your house at risk.
