Home Improvement and Remodeling

Usually, we’re more preoccupied with finishes and fittings than the things we can’t see. But the hidden elements of a renovation are well worth our attention. Professional contractors ready to update or remodel any room in your home. From kitchens, bathrooms and basements to decks, driveways, and fences our top-rated pros will add value to your home improvement project without adding stress to your life. When the floor of your sink cabinet needs a spruce-up, lay down squares of self-adhesive vinyl tile. They’re about a buck a square at home centers and provide an easy-to-wipe-clean surface.

  • Stylish designs can be found at your local home improvement center.
  • Deane is a 30+ year veteran in the contracting, remodeling, maintenance, and home repair industry.
  • Stacked neatly in his backyard is a minivan-size pile of gray lumber, all stuff Buhr salvaged from dumpsters and a fence demolition project.
  • On-call handyman services to take care of all your small projects and home repairs – fast.

Given the amount of sports memorabilia and model cars around the house, it’s important for Jill to assert her presence, too. The Taylor residence is filled with the typical odds and ends that you would expect from a series firmly entrenched in the 1990s. The set designers brought those pieces in from two specific sources. Based on the standup comedy of Tim Allen, Home Improvement ran for eight seasons on ABC. It focused on Tim Taylor, a former tool salesman turned TV host, and his family. They lived in suburban Detroit with a neighbor that was full of great advice and didn’t show his full face until the series finale.

Do you love the look of old shiplap walls and ceilings, but live in a new home? Add a gorgeous shiplap accent wall in any space for $50 or less by trimming down plywood into planks, then attaching the boards to your wall using construction adhesive and nails. Finish it off by painting the panels, and admire your DIY shiplap on a dime.

A House Divided

Center your showstopping art on the wall, and take care to hang it 57 inches above the ground- — that’s where the average eye level sits. Museums and galleries also use this as a rule of thumb. Opt for modern or abstract design over an ornate or detailed pattern which can translate into visual confusion.

Plan of the Ground Floor of the Taylor’s House, showing rooms and funiture

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This happens as kids break dishes and you pick up new ones, slowly leaving you with a strange melange of plates, bowls and such. Having these mismatched dish sets around was a key step in making the Taylor house feel like a home. Three ways to learn a lot about a home is by rifling through their garbage, opening their mail and checking out what’s in their fridge.

At 40 pounds a bag, she hauled them from the store in four trips. The reclaimed yard provides a nice place to relax in a controlled outdoor environment, another factor driving the pandemic building boom. And a lot of the work going on in backyards slips under the radar of people like Anderson. Astoria Camille, for instance, is working on a scrappy project behind her mother’s home in Kansas City’s Troostwood neighborhood.