HARWINTON, Conn., May 12, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — What are the most effective ways to prepare your home for potential buyers? According to Joanne Donne of The Washington Agency in Harwinton, Connecticut, the answer lies in simplicity, cleanliness, and strategic presentation. In her feature for HelloNation Magazine, Donne discusses the power of real estate home […]
What’s New in Flooring for 2025 Smooth and natural flooring in both wood and stone looks continued to dominate the tile and plank collections seen at recent surface materials and building trade shows in Las Vegas. There’s movement away from whitewashed gray and rustic wood flooring, although those choices are still available. And resilient flooring
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Simple Pleasures: The Joy of Fresh Sheets (11 photos) When you’ve had an especially trying day, there’s nothing quite so restorative as slipping into a freshly made bed. Sinking into crisp sheets, cozy blankets and fluffed-up pillows soothes the spirit and encourages a restful night’s sleep. Here are suggestions to make your bed as delightfully
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00:00 Speaker A If you’re looking to sell your home, how you stage it could impact uh and how you have a big impact on how fast you can get an offer. More than half of buyers’ agents say that home staging had an effect on buyers’ view of the home according to a report
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4 Fresh Green, White and Wood Kitchens Epoch Solutions, Inc.Save Photo Elongated hexagonal picket tile in buoyant shades of green and blue sets a midcentury modern tone and draws eyes from every corner of the open plan. The colors are picked up in nearby pillows and a vase, but otherwise the space celebrates mostly white
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Landscape Pros Share Their Top Plant Picks for a Resilient Garden Columbine Fine Landscape Gardening and DesignSave Photo Jeff True, Hursthouse Landscape Architects and Contractors, Bolingbrook, Illinois Chicago is known for its brutally cold winters and hot, dry summers. “Just a few hours north and south of here is a very different climate,” says Jeff
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DIY accidents on the rise as two thirds of adults admit they have been hurt doing it A poll of 2,000 adults found 90% have taken on home improvement at one time or another, with 12% needing medical attention during the process One in ten have had a DIY injury(Image: Getty Images) A whopping two
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Nod to Nature in the Pacific Northwest Coppercreek LandscapingSave Photo The team paid close attention to water needs with plant selection, as required by the homeowners association, choosing low-maintenance varieties, pollinator attractors and plants with year-round interest. Two choices were black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia sp.) and coneflower (Echinacea sp.), which are drought-tolerant and attract bees. “We
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8 Decorative Lighting Trends to Know for 2025 8. Glowing Stone Natural stone is a perennially important material in furnishings and lighting, but it’s become a focal point over the last few seasons as it’s gotten warmer, darker and more heavily veined. Indeed, we once again saw myriad sculptural lamps with colorful marble bases throughout
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Homebuyers can find it difficult to imagine themselves living in somebody else’s home, especially if rooms are either empty or too full of personal belongings. Enter home staging, in which owners arrange (often someone else’s) furnishings in ways meant to be attractive to potential buyers to show them how they can use a space. For
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