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Home equity loans and home improvements: What owners should know now
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Home equity loans and home improvements: What owners should know now

Home equity loans and home improvements: What owners should know now
For homeowners looking to finance major repairs and improvements, a home equity loan may be worth it.

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Looking for an affordable way to fund your next home improvement project amidst elevated interest rates?

Home equity loans can be a good option thanks to their relatively low costs and lenient eligibility requirements. Plus, when you spend the loan funds on qualifying home improvements, the interest can be tax-deductible.

Explore your home equity loan options here now to see what you can qualify for.

Home equity loans and home improvements: What owners should know now

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

Don’t Forget These 7 Home Improvement Projects This Summer

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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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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How to create open kitchen cupboards
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How to create open kitchen cupboards

The kitchen… always an ever changing and evolving space over here it seems. But there is one thing we did when we first moved into this house that was a game changer in the kitchen. It involved the kitchen cupboard doors and paint.

How to create open kitchen cupboards

Slow Changes

Slow changes and renovations were pretty much the motto here when we moved in. Partly because of design changes and ideas that I got on a whim and partly because over the years we updated the kitchen to be as functional as budget allowed – rather than remodeling to achieve the style we would like.

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Got home improvement projects? Check out the library’s list
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Got home improvement projects? Check out the library’s list

Need a hand being handy? Know a Mr. Fixit who doesn’t live up to their name? Did DIY turn into “Ahh, I have a spring in my eyes!!!”?

Don’t despair at the failure.

The Vancouver Public Library (VPL) may have the list for you.

They came up with a list of 20 books to help people help themselves. And a DVD.

“Don’t despair if you are aghast at the state of your home, or have a need to make improvements. These books (plus one DVD) will provide you with all the tips and tutorials you will need,” says the library

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Vintage French Floral Painted Beds
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Vintage French Floral Painted Beds

Vintage French Floral Beds

A pair of darling beds in original delicious vintage green, covered in curves and delightful hand painted florals…I think obsessed might be the only way to sum them up.

Vintage French Floral Painted Beds

The Story

I often redesign a room or space for a special project to change things up a bit & so am always on the lookout for unique pieces that speak to me. I am working on a special design that is much different in look and feel that is currently in the attic- and the vintage is more saturated color and details of these beds is

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