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Family situation changing? A solid plan for home renovations is essential

When life transitions happen, a renovation can make a big difference to the function and comfort of your home.

Perhaps you’ve been thinking for years about building an in-law suite for your parents. Maybe your kids are starting college and moving out – or back in! An updated layout could keep those family members close but still give everyone privacy. Alternatively, if your family is growing and your house is feeling cramped, you may need to build an addition to the house.

Whatever it is that spurs the thought of a home renovation, one fact is clear: your house just

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02/09/2025

House Renovation

Discover Thanksgiving Traditions in America

November is for being grateful and celebrating the uniquely American holiday, Thanksgiving!

A bunch of fun ‘did you know?’ and Thanksgiving Fun Facts. Have your A-HA moment and then pass it on. (The more you know…)

Because, sharing is caring… Sharable quotes from the woman who was the first lady editor in America and the driving force behind making Thanksgiving a National Holiday.

Sarah Josepha Hale was sassy and tenacious and she changed the world. She wrote Mary Had a Little Lamb, brought you the ‘white wedding dress’, and campaigned to make Thanksgiving a National Holiday.

You can’t talk Thanksgiving

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09/07/2025

House Renovation

Bomb Shelter Discovered During Basement Renovation In Bristol Home

When a construction and property company were renovating a basement in a client’s Bristol-based home, they stumbled across a piece of history.

Berkeley Place was working on a basement duplex apartment in Clifton when handwriting was found on one of the walls. The notes were recordings of WWII air raids in Bristol, which was a target for bombing due to the presence of Bristol Harbor and The Bristol Airplane Company. There were six major bombing raids on the city, in what has since become known as the ‘Bristol Blitz’.

Berkeley Place

basement renovation bomb shelter makeover in bristol

Berkeley Place

The bomb shelter discovery was made while

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02/07/2025

House Renovation

Make Your Personal Whirlig Toy

What’s a Whirligig Toy?

The phrase whirligig derives from two Center English phrases: whirlen (to whirl) and gigg (prime), or actually “to whirl a prime”. So the gist of the whirligig toy then is principally to make use of a scientific power (in our case we create it) to get the factor whirling after which we search to maintain it going.

That is all fairly fancy to say a disk on a string. This straightforward pleasure of each making and enjoying with whirligigs supplied hours of leisure for the youngsters of early America and nonetheless does immediately.

Native American whirligig

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15/05/2025

House Renovation

Boost Your HOME IMPROVEMENT With These Tips

mindy lavender and dog in front of house entrance

Designer, Mindy Lavender

Christopher Lee’s photograph

Most of the time, when the crew makes a discovery in the course of the demolition, the information is not good. Defective wiring, asbestos, and dry rot are just some less-than-ideal surprises. Nonetheless, the rehabilitation of this Thirties Georgian in Lengthy Seashore, California, unearthed a contented shock: A Prohibition-style room tucked behind a pivoting bookcase.

“The speakeasy dates again to Prohibition instances,” designer Mindy Laven says. “There are even authentic liquor labels from the Thirties on the partitions, together with handwritten notes scribed from previous visitors.”

Everybody was on board preserving the sudden discover,

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11/05/2025

House Renovation

Renovations Are All About Clients’ Heritage & Culture on HGTV’s ‘Revealed’ | Entertainment News

A house isn’t just a house — it’s a piece of the people who live there. And in designer Veronica Valencia’s new HGTV series, revealedrenovations are based on clients’ heritage and culture.

“I learned early on the importance of honoring your past,” says Valencia, who is of Mexican and Native American descent and was raised amid heirlooms and objects linked to important memories. “We used my grandma’s tortilla maker and thumbed through family photo albums scattered everywhere. I don’t think homes are meant to be precious or perfect; they’re meant to be lived in.”

According to the Extreme Makeover:

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06/07/2023

House Renovation

Manitoba seniors getting help for renovations that make it possible to stay in own homes

Some Manitoba seniors who want to age in their homes will now have access to funding to make that possible, the province said Thursday.

The Manitoba government is developing a grant program to support home modifications that will allow them to stay in their own homes longer. Those projects could include installing ramps, widened doorways, curbless showers and improved lighting, Seniors Minister Scott Johnston said at a Thursday news conference.

“We recognize we have an aging society, and therefore these initiatives are there to help,” Johnston said.

The aid will only be available to households with someone over the age

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02/06/2023

House Renovation

The Girl Who LOVES Bugs by Lily Murray – picture book review

May 3, 2023

Hands up who has a little one that LOVES bugs? Me too! From the moment she clapped her eyes on them, that was it. Ladybirds in her hair, snails who somehow managed to come to tea, and little pet woodlice wriggling around in their new ‘leaf houses’.

It’s no surprise that we’ve completely fallen in love with the new picture book, The Girl Who LOVES bugs by Lily Murray. It’s newly published just in time for bug season by Macmillan Children’s Books. Here’s what we thought.

The Girl Who LOVES Bugs by Lily Murray

Synopsis

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08/05/2023