Home Improvement

Where Will Home Depot Stock Be in 3 Years?
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Where Will Home Depot Stock Be in 3 Years?

May is a big month for HomeDepot (HD 3.56%). Customer traffic tends to rise along with temperatures around the country as shoppers spend energetically on home improvement products. This springtime-demand spike drives the chain’s highest sales-volume weeks of the year.

Investors also get a critical update during this period. Home Depot’s fiscal first-quarter report arrives just at the start of the spring-demand spike. Let’s look at expectations around that upcoming announcement, set for May 16, and where the chain appears to be headed over the next few years.

big concerns

Worries that a recession will drive a sharp

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soaking up spring and our may/june magazine
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soaking up spring and our may/june magazine

MFCH MAGAZINE MAY/JUNE
Cover photo by Frederic Ducout

May is one of the busiest moments in my year. The garden needs attention, our MFCH Tours pick up speed and social life here gets busy again after the quieter winter.

My favorite time of the day is when I can finally sit and relax and flip through the MFCH Magazine. The May/June issue is a particular favorite of mine because it is full of beautiful homes and gardens around France in the springtime. Putting our magazine together every two months is rather like making a large, colorful cocktail. We always try to include the

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Home Depot hits the brakes: Three-year robust sales run ends amid pull back on home improvements | News
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Home Depot hits the brakes: Three-year robust sales run ends amid pull back on home improvements | News

New York (CNN) — Home Depot couldn’t keep its protracted robust sales streak going any longer. The home improvement chain reported a small quarter as consumer spending on home improvement projects – which was buoyed by the stay-at-home pandemic lifestyle – coming to a screeching halt.

The retailer posted disappointing sales for its first quarter and lowered its outlook for the year after customers slowed their spending on home improvement projects. Home Depot (HD) said sales fell 4.5% at least a year at stores open during its latest quarter, and its income decreased 6.4% from the same stretch a year

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The Weekend View – French Country Cottage
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The Weekend View – French Country Cottage

Welcome to the weekend view.

This week is all about a new vintage treasure, blooming peonies and the greenhouse, a chicken named Romeo and fun with the grand babies.

Romeo

One of our baby silkies has grown into a handsome and very sweet rooster named Romeo. We named him Romeo because he is a definite lover boy. He followed me right into the house one day and thought it was pretty amazing I guess because he loves hopping on the porch and making some noise until we open the door. He usually wanders in for a few blueberries or spinach

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Don’t Forget These 7 Home Improvement Projects This Summer
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Don’t Forget These 7 Home Improvement Projects This Summer

Small red house with blue and white accents

Summer is the season for DIY projects. But before you embark on your next wish list task, it’s a good idea to hop on some quick home maintenance projects. It’s easy to get too relaxed or lean into the need to have some fun as the warm weather arrives. You might think that you can put off these maintenance projects until next year. However, tackling them before starting something new will help ensure your properties are in tip-top shape before the seasons change once again.

Below are seven of the best summer home improvement projects homeowners should evaluate and fix

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BBB CONSUMER TIPS: How to make your next home improvement project a success | Local News
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BBB CONSUMER TIPS: How to make your next home improvement project a success | Local News

Do-it-yourself is an attractive way to save money on home improvement projects. Home centers stay busy each spring with people looking to improve their homes and yards.

Whether you are remodeling your home, making needed repairs, or sprucing things up to put your house on the market, the following tips will help make your next home improvement project a success.

• Come up with a budget and stick to it. Home improvement projects can get expensive fast. If you don’t want to break the bank, create a realistic budget to figure out how much you can spend ahead of time.

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7 Bathroom Remodel Tips for a Beautiful Room
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7 Bathroom Remodel Tips for a Beautiful Room

Oh bathrooms and remodeling projects. They are a fun aren’t they? Right up there with kitchen remodels. The bathrooms and kitchens are rooms that are used daily several times and so, when you are remodeling those spaces, it really impacts your day to day while the dust is flying. So, I say, when you tackle a big remodel- do it right the first time to minimize the do-overs. Did I do that? No. I learned the hard way.

Bathroom Remodel Tips

Anytime you are renovating a space- it is exciting and an opportunity to do something different, something unique or

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15 Easy Home Projects That Will Refresh Your Space in No Time
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15 Easy Home Projects That Will Refresh Your Space in No Time

We all have those lofty dreams and aspirations of how we’re going to spruce up our homes. We want to paint the entire main floor using a whole new palette of colors. We want to swap in more energy-efficient windows and put on a new roof. We want to retile the master bath. We want to add a pool and patio and outdoor kitchen.

So what’s keeping us from tackling these home-improvement projects that we know would bring us such joy? Ah, right: time and money.

But what if you could refresh at least one of the rooms in your

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