As the weather warms and nature blooms, spring offers the perfect opportunity to breathe new life into your home. Whether you’re preparing for a fresh start or simply looking to enhance your existing living space, there are countless ways to enhance comfort, increase energy efficiency, and elevate the aesthetic appeal of your home. Read on…
10 Ways to Use Ashes from Your Fire Pit
After an enjoyable evening around the fire, you’re left with a pile of ashes to dispose of. Sure, you can let them cool completely and toss them into the trash bin. But did you know there are a number of ways to use wood ash around your home and garden? Check out the list below…
Heating and Cooling a Home with High Ceilings
Vaulted, cathedral, or otherwise high ceilings can make a home feel spacious, airy, and grand, allowing beams and other architectural details to shine. However, they can also have an effect on your HVAC system and, in turn, heating and cooling costs. Read on as we explore how high ceilings impact an HVAC system’s ability to…
Your Guide to Decoding Product Labels
Reading household and personal care product labels can often feel like reading a foreign language. We’re bombarded with fancy-sounding words that claim to be free of certain potentially harmful ingredients and deliver miracle-like benefits. But how can we be certain whether those claims are fact or fiction? Especially considering that as long as a product…
Get More Out of Your Appliances
Imagine starting the day without the sound of your coffee pot’s drip-drip-drip of freshly brewed coffee, keeping your home warm without your trusty heating system, washing clothes and linens without a washing machine, or cooking meals without a stove, oven, or microwave. Sure, generations before us managed to survive without such luxuries, but today these…
How to Enjoy Fall in a Warm Climate
The changing leaves, the seasonal designer beverages, the warm, oversized sweaters – it’s all pretty great. Unless you live in a warm climate such as the Fort Worth area. With temps still hovering around the 70s and 80s, fall doesn’t exactly look like a Hallmark movie. So how can you savor the season while still…
6 Ways to Cool Down a Hot Room
Every home seems to have one – that one room or area that’s noticeably hotter than the rest of the house, sometimes unbearably so. Sure, you can try an oscillating fan, noisy window air conditioner, or simply ignore the room until cooler temps roll around. But wouldn’t you prefer a better, more permanent solution? Whether…
How to Battle the Winter Blues
Winter days can be dark, gloomy, and bleak – especially with the reduced amount of daylight hours. Even the heartiest of winter lovers can feel down, irritable, and out of sorts during cold weather months. For some, it’s just a case of mild winter blues while others suffer from seasonal affective disorder, or SAD, which…
Fun Facts About Christmas Trees, Past & Present
Drive through just about any neighborhood during the holiday season and you’re sure to see a multitude of indoor and outdoor Christmas trees with festive lights and decorations galore. And while the Christmas tree has been one of the best-known holiday season symbols for centuries, chances are there’s still plenty you don’t know about them.…
How About a Little Feng Shui to Enhance Your Indoor Comfort?!
Have you heard of the ancient Chinese philosophy of feng shui – a concept centered around bringing harmony and positive energy to a space and the people occupying it? If so, great. If not, fear not, because we’re about to explain the concept and how you can put it to work for you. What Is…