Archive for October, 2011

• Affordable Fireplace at Your House, Let’s Try! (2)

  Date: 2011.10.29 | Category: Home Decoration, Home Improvement, House & Home | Response: 0

  They provide a focal point in the house and have decorative value. Some people may simply put plants in them, but even so, they provide that sense of warmth— hearth and home. And hearth and home seem to have become more important since the events of 9/11 made us look at our houses as refuges and retreats rather than simply shelters. Read the rest of this entry »

• Affordable Fireplace at Your House, Let’s Try!

  Date: 2011.10.25 | Category: Home Decoration, Home Improvement, Home Remodelling, House & Home | Response: 0

  Everyone wants a fireplace, as long as little work is involved. Nothing says romantic like a fireplace. Yet nothing offers an opportunity for a lot of work than a wood-burning one, such as storing wood in a way that won’t attract bugs and termites, and hauling in wood in the depths of winter, trying to keep your balance on the ice, as well as getting rid of the ash without getting it all over the house. Read the rest of this entry »

• Check Its Bathroom before Buying House (6)

  Date: 2011.10.21 | Category: Bathroom, Home Improvement, House & Home | Response: 0

  One new low-flow toilet is more of a curiosity than something you might want to add to your bathroom, but I’m passing along information about it, because it is beginning to appear in new-home design centers. TotoUSA’s Neorest integrated toilet has a lid that automatically opens whenever an individual approaches it. When the individual rises, the lid closes automatically, and the unit flushes. Read the rest of this entry »

• Check Its Bathroom before Buying House (5)

  Date: 2011.10.17 | Category: Bathroom, Home Improvement, House & Home | Response: 0

  The toilet has a bellows in the tank, and instead of having the handle on the side, it has a tennis-ball-size gizmo on the lid for flushing. The only problem is that, if you are too curious about how the toilet works and take off the lid to find out, you’ll disconnect the flushing device. Read the rest of this entry »

• Check Its Bathroom before Buying House (4)

  Date: 2011.10.13 | Category: Bathroom, Home Improvement, House & Home | Response: 0

  The research center testing was limited to one-piece or twopiece gravity-flow toilets that could be compared to 3.5 gallon toilets. Some toilets functioned well; others did poorly. Center researchers developed a “clog index.”Where each toilet placed on a scale of 1 to 150 was based on how easily the toilet got rid of the sponges and wads of paper that were used in the rigorous testing. Read the rest of this entry »