Everywhere you look, you see tweeters who are interested in all sorts of things from hobbies and sports to celebrity gossip. Heck, even celebrities are in on Twitter, and some are the most followed twirps out there! In the remodeling industry, there are certainly (more…)

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Wanting more is an American tradition. We never seem to have enough, whether it’s clothing, money, nice things or space in our homes. So what’s a body to do? Get more! All jokes aside, adding onto your home is really a very wise investment. It’s easier than building from scratch or moving, and less wasteful than new construction. It adds to your property value, as well as to the comfort and enjoyment you experience from being at home.

Depending on your needs, you may decide to add onto your home, but you may also want to consider adding a detached structure to your property. There are several advantages to both.

The cost of either type of addition is comparable. While it may cost a bit less to build more rooms onto your existing house, the project will also entail deconstructing portions of the homes in order to tie the new addition in, which will add costs. An attached addition may also mean constructing a whole new roof. And even though your new detached structure will come with the cost of laying new footings, so might your attached addition if you’ve decided to build out, as opposed to up. (more…)

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Meet LED, the god of all light bulbs. You’ve probably heard of LED lighting used in extravagant luxury mansions for such important things as light-up furniture, glow-in-the-dark floor tiles and neon shower heads (aka things that really don’t need to be lit). But did you know that this seemingly wasteful decor may actually be greener than your own bedroom lamp?

It seems too ironic to be true. But as our friends at the Little Green Blog point out, the green technology’s there – we need only take advantage of it. LEDs can long outlast your old incandescent or CFL light bulbs, and with comparable lighting quality for less energy use.

This post is incredibly informative. I feel like I’m sneaking around behind the government’s back by sharing this with you. All LEDs only require 3-4 volts DC, but nearly every home in America pumps out 110-120 volts per electrical outlet. Where does that excess energy go? It’s lost in the conversion. We shouldn’t be tied to a high-voltage energy grid. As solar power and more LED products become available, I hope that we’ll do away with dirty energy once and for all.

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