Five Home Maintenance Tasks You Should Perform Before Thanksgiving to Make Your Life Easier This Winter and Next Spring

I’ve been seeing leaves changing colors and beginning to fall. Now is the right time to do these five maintenance tasks to help your home function better during the winter: Look at the vegetation around your home. If you have bushes or trees that have grown to the point they are touching, or nearly touching […]

WACKY and a Balloon that Fixes Two Ongoing Problems With Fireplaces

This past Sunday I attended the WACKY (Warriors Against Cancer in Kids and Young Adults) 6th Annual Honored Hero Run sponsored by Edward Jones. I went to support one of my good buddies, Craig Liddell, who is an Edward Jones broker. This was Craig’s first 5k and he came in first in his division. One […]

Insights on Choosing from the Five Most Common Paint Sheens in Today’s World of Paint

As if picking colors isn’t hard enough, the paint sheen, or gloss, is just as important to the final look of a design project. The sheen reflects varying degrees of light. The old school standard rule of thumb used to be gloss on trim, semi-gloss on walls and flat on the ceiling. Flat was never […]

Ideas for Choosing New Flooring

If you are thinking about having new flooring installed, it is easy to get overwhelmed with all the choices. The look of the flooring is important, and there are many choices for all our different tastes. The first thing to consider is exactly how the floor is going to be used — which sounds like […]