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• Quick Deck Install Video
• Put Some Thought Behind Your Bathroom Design
• Instant Elegance with Wallpaper
• So Cold it’s Hot: Awesome Snowboarder’s House
• 6 Room Makeovers for Eccentric Homeowners
• Rental Rehab Saga Part 2: Your Material List
• The Joy of In Home Saunas

Quick Deck Install Video Posted: 04 Feb 2010 12:25 AM PST We pulled this video from Extreme-HowTo which gives a quick look at what it takes to replace your wood decking with a composite decking such as Fiberon, TimberTech, or Trex. It's a fairly easy process but can be a bit labor intensive and will go much faster with help from a friend.

Put Some Thought Behind Your Bathroom Design Posted: 04 Feb 2010 12:19 AM PST Bathroom design can be tricky, because they don't always fit in with the decor used in the rest of the house. To pick your bathroom design, whether it is traditional, contemporary, modern, retro, floral, rustic, country, antique themed, nautical, classic, or creative, consider these tips adapted from HGTV: First, determine who uses the bathroom? If it's family, it's got to be functional. If it's a visitor, it can be fun. For overnight guests, it should welcoming.

Instant Elegance with Wallpaper Posted: 03 Feb 2010 12:53 PM PST There are few things which can instantly change the look of a room like wallpaper. Unlike traditional paint, wallpaper offers depth, color, texture, and patterns to harmoniously blend and compliment other elements in the room. Wallpaper for Any Style Incorporating wallpaper will offer elegance in the dining room or whimsical fun in a child's bedroom. The sophisticated printing techniques used in today's production of wallpaper allow for a wider range of patterns and designs. These new colors, patterns, and textures are allowing wallpaper to make a strong return to the home décor market. Use wallpaper borders to complement the paint color on your walls or to trim out cabinets or windows. Select the perfect wallpaper to create the just the right feel and style for any room in your home. DirectBuy offers a great selection and huge savings on beautiful wallpaper designs and other home furnishing elements. Visit your nearest DirectBuy today to begin saving on the latest home décor designs and furnishings.

So Cold it’s Hot: Awesome Snowboarder’s House Posted: 03 Feb 2010 12:44 PM PST California’s Crowley Lake is the site of this amazing wintry hideaway. A perfect blend of casual and impressive, it makes for free-and-easy living, adult-style. Designed for privacy, Tim Gallagher’s three-story house blends in with the landscape, both in its rough shape and use of low-maintenance, naturally weathering materials. The 2,400-sq-ft. space boasts four bedrooms, one bath, a living area, and a large garage to house wintertime toys. The furnishings are unfussy and inexpensive. After all, the location and killer view make enough of a statement. In fact, this sofa and coffee table are from IKEA. Even the art is minimalist, with a series of colorful snowboards lining the stairway. Rows and rows of windows let in natural light, while the top level's overhang offers shade. In shadow, the cabin looks like it's carved into the bottom of the mountain. Just beautiful! Please bookmark and share

6 Room Makeovers for Eccentric Homeowners Posted: 03 Feb 2010 09:39 AM PST Designer Vern Yip goes to town on a few boring living spaces. Here are 6 outrageous ones from Deserving Design. #1 – This uber-masculine bedroom combines brown leather, black walls and red accents – a very unlikely color combination. With a twinkling background, it's a Phantom of the Opera-esque fantasy land. #2 – A creative way to make a shared room as private as possible, individual beds are swathed in drapery. Artwork inside each unit says "bungalow," not hospital bed. #3 – Locker rooms are typically smelly places where jocks hang out and make rude jokes. This design invites respect and conviviality with conversation areas, artwork and fresh-looking lamps. #4 – Would you believe this is a garage? A fun transformation makes it a favorite place to hang in the house while still keeping it conducive to its original use – parking and storage. #5 – An otherwise neglected hallway becomes a multipurpose dining and music room with eclectic yet rustic furnishings. #6 – Decorating with words makes a big statement in this now-trendy living room. It needed little else than a profusion of black-and-white personal photos and travel mementos to make it comfy, yet stylish. Please bookmark and share

Rental Rehab Saga Part 2: Your Material List Posted: 03 Feb 2010 02:15 AM PST In our last post, I shared a few lessons from our rental property search phase, including how to avoid neighboring pit bulls. As escrows begin to close (three this week!) I spent much of the last week feverishly purchasing material. Here's my method for balancing urgently needing product with desperately needed good pricing. Today I will focus specifically on developing my material list. Step 1: Build the List The first step in purchasing is knowing what to purchase. I walk each job in detail and compile a room-by-room material list. It's painstaking but necessary. Sure, it causes a few minor strokes when uncovering items initially missed in the initial pre-offer walk through, but all in all it's not too bad. Upon completing the walk each of the properties has a 3-4 page list of materials. Step 2: Excel-ize the List Back at the ranch (ok, not the ranch, but it sounds better than "back at the office") I transcribe my list from hand-written to Excel. Lots of cut-n-paste here folks. In fact, I have become a bit of a hot-key expert. I'm sure to enter quantities next to each item as I input; this becomes invaluable when searching the isles of Home Depot. I initially input my material list by room code, item description, quantity and approximate location in our local Home Depot. I know, sounds like overkill, but it makes shopping much easier.

The Joy of In Home Saunas Posted: 03 Feb 2010 12:20 AM PST The sauna experience derives from Finland, but an in-home sauna gives you the experience of a wet or dry heat session in the comfort and privacy of your own home, anywhere in the world. Before you purchase an in-home sauna, determine its purpose and make sure you want a sauna, and not a steam room. Saunas are used to relax and rejuvenate, while steam rooms are generally more medicinal in their purpose, as they are thought to help detoxify the body as well as treat respiratory ailments. Another difference is that an in-home electrically heated sauna uses drier heat and hotter air with a humidity of 10-30%, whereas a steam room operates at a constant humidity level of 100% at much lower temperatures.

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