Save By Remodeling During Winter
FAIRFAX, Va. – For many, winter is the time to hunker down with the TV remote and watch some basketball or football, or to cook up some toasty fun in the kitchen.
But maybe it should be the time when you’re planning your next home remodeling project.
“January is really the time to redo your basement or plan your kitchen renovation,” says Tom Vitale, owner of Oak Hill Building & Remodeling/VCI Inc. in Fairfax, Va.
Yes, you can actually save money remodeling the downstairs into the perfect lower level, man-cave media room where the guys hang out with a brew and armchair quarterback.
“The savings can be 10 to 15 percent this time of year for any type of interior remodeling job, whether it’s a basement, a kitchen or a bathroom,” says Vitale.
Organized by Design
If you are like most people who have a garage, you’ve wondered if there was a more effective way to use the existing space surrounding your vehicle or vehicles. Unfortunately, some people find once they use up existing space on the ground by their vehicles, they can’t put any more storage items in their garage. Or, over time, they stack so many items in the garage that they can no longer fit both vehicles into their traditional two-car garage.
“Why would you spend $35,000 on a vehicle and then store $2,000 worth of junk and leave the $35,000 vehicle out in the weather,” asked Doug Madsen, co-owner of Gorgeous Garages of Utah in St. George.
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The Frugal Garage
In my neighborhood, all of the houses have two car garages. What amazes me is how few people use their garages for their intended purpose. When I go out for a run, I see so many garage doors open and the garages are full of stuff, not cars. There is barely room to walk in some of them, so crammed are they with junk. I guess part of the problem is that these houses were built without basements or attics so there’s no place to store the overflow of junk that most people have.
If you have a garage full of stuff and no room to put your cars, you might want to give some thought to cleaning it out and putting your cars in it. Using the garage as a garage rather than a storage facility has actually saved us money over the years. Aside from removing the eyesore of clutter, cleaning out your garage and parking your cars in it might save you some money, too. Here are some ways that using your garage as a garage, rather than a storage facility can save you some money.
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The Frugal Garage - SavingAdvice.com Blog.
The Garage Design Center Hosts Yellow-Tie International
The Garage Design Center Hosts Yellow-Tie International
The Garage Design Center announces they will host the first Yellow-Tie International Business Development Association event of 2009 at their Fenton showroom from 5:30 - 7:30pm on January 13th.
St. Louis, MO-IL (1888PressRelease) December 29, 2008 - Missouri - As the premier garage organization company in St. Louis, Over a happy hour business networking setting in their showroom, experts from The Garage Design Center will introduce the awesome possibilities of making-over the largest room in their house. Some of the cool garage solutions on display will be the Harley-Davidson Storage Systems by Stack-On, Gladiator GarageWorks by Whirlpool and HyLoft Storage solutions.
“We are honored to be selected as the host for the January Drinks & Handshakes event,” says Dale Heuvelman, Owner and president of The Garage Design Center and Precision Door of St. Louis. He further states, “As a general philosophy, we judge our business on the satisfaction of our customers. I’m confident that by showcasing our work and creative craftsmanship, it will leave a long-lasting impression on all attendees. Examples of our work are at www.TheGarageDesignCenter.com.”
Make room for car in garage by organizing, de-cluttering
If the season’s first snowfall has always meant a frantic search for that long-forgotten snow shovel, it may be necessary to organize your garage. But if you find your garage filled with clutter and items you’ve been saving for years, you’re not alone. The U.S. Department of Energy reports that 25% of people with two-car garages don’t have room to park any cars inside, and 32% have room for only one vehicle.
We asked Sabrina Soto, host of “Get It Sold” on HGTV, for her best garage organization tips. We caught up with her when she took a break from shopping for items for the taping of her show in Washington, D.C.
Swisstrax selected the Big Dog Garage by Jay Leno
Reading an article in Garage Style magazine featuring Leno’s custom-built garage in Burbank, Calif., Randy Nelson, president and owner of Swisstrax Corp., saw the garage flooring and decided he had to help out with setting up a better garage floor to compliment the renowned car collection.
With the assistance from Don Weberg of Garage Style magazine, Randy was able to set a meeting with Leno and part of the garage team. He first met up with Mr. Bernard Juchli, a native Swiss, and Leno’s “mechanical genius.” Juchli was kind enough to grant Swisstrax a chance to meet with Leno and install some car pads in the Big Dog Garage.
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Jay Leno Chooses Swisstrax for the Big Dog Garage.
H&C Offers More Colors of Epoxy Concrete Floor Coatings
December 17, 2008 by admin
Filed under Floor Finishes, News
Cleveland, Ohio - Shield-Crete Epoxy Concrete Garage Floor Coating from H&C creates that showroom quality appearance consumers are looking for when they either upgrade their homes or look for a special add-on when building their dream houses. And now it’s available in four more highly requested finish colors.
Shield-Crete is now available in Safety yellow, royal blue, jade green and night sky. H&C also added to the Shield-Crete line up with new pentagon-shaped, holographic flakes. These can be mixed with Shield-Crete’s existing deco flakes to create a truly unique appearance.
H&C Offers More Colors of Epoxy Concrete Floor Coatings @ Concrete News (ForConstructionPros.com).
Organize Your Life Announces the First Easy To Use E-Books for Residential Organizing
With the stresses of the current economy one can still organize themselves and get their life in order. While one can’t control the chaos of the economy, one can take control of their home environment by getting organized. Whether if it is the garage, storage closets, business papers everyone feels overwhelmed by it all. Now avialable are 3 easy to read E-Books in PDF format for the Do-It-Yourself homeowner who wants to get organized. Organize Your Home Office E-Book, Organize Your Garage E-Book, Organize Your Kitchen E-book.
(PRWEB) December 17, 2008 — It is perfect for those homeowners who cannot afford to hire a professional organizer or just want to do it themselves, The books explain how to step-by-step, easy to follow directions on how to organize these 3 areas of the home. You can easily buy them through Paypal on the website: http://www.organizeyourlife.org/EBook.htm. The books are sold seperately. There are plenty of illustrations to view so no one can go wrong. Organizing will bring peace of mind and save time and money. By reading these books the task of organizing will relieve the frustration of not knowing how to pull the rooms or areas together. It will eliminate the fear of making the wrong choices and decisions so one won’t feel overwhelemd by the process. With a new year beginning this is the perfect time to get organized.
Cynthia Braun, CPO started Organize Your Life 6 years ago in Long Island, NY. She speaks about how to do it yourself organizing in her lectures and on the radio throughout Long Island.
Housing Examiner: Creating garage Zen
Conventional wisdom tells us that garages were originally made to contain cars, just as barns and stables were originally meant for horses and livestock. But as we all know, today’s garages must play a plethora of roles that have little to do with merely housing automobiles.
So where do we begin to organize this space that has become the collect-all domain of our dwellings?
Housing Examiner: Creating garage Zen.
by Dena Kouremetis, Housing Examiner
In a Shift, Yard Sales Remain Hot in Cold Season
Sandy Leaf, a self-described “starving Realtor” from Fairfax County, had her second yard sale of the season last week, despite frigid temperatures. She dragged a fire pit into the driveway and served hot cider while she set out children’s books, clothes and housewares. She hoped for a little money to offset bills while clearing clutter from two bedrooms she plans to rent out.
It’s cold out, but yard sales are hot.
In a Shift, Yard Sales Remain Hot in Cold Season - washingtonpost.com.