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Letting go of old stuff

Isn’t it that we tend to accumulate a LOT of stuff as the years go by? And it seems like we can’t let go of even the most ancient of our belongings. For instance, here at home, we have our old kitchen which now looks like a storage room with piles of boxes, tools, broken […]

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Kitchen organizing

Mom recently celebrated her 75th birthday and as a thanksgiving, we gave out some heavy snacks after our community prayer meeting. We prepared food packs for 40 persons so it was quite a tough task with just three of us here at home. After all the hullabaloo of food preparation, the kitchen was quite a […]

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4 Ways to Spruce Up Your Bathroom

You spend hours in your bathroom each year. You might even spend days in there when you add up accumulative time. So shouldn’t the space be somewhere that you’re proud to call your own? Shouldn’t it sparkle with your personality or gleam with your favorite aesthetic? If you’re tired of your old, dull bathroom and […]

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6 Tips for Hiring a Contractor

The right contractor can make or break your home remodel. But what if you aren’t sure how to find the right one? What criteria should you be using in your search? Here are just six tips for hiring a contractor. 1. Check Their Credentials Are they licensed by the state? Do they have any professional […]

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Starting the year with cleaning up

One of our priorities at the start of the year is cleaning up our home, from top to bottom. That simply means cleaning up the rooms upstairs, moving downwards and finally tackling the rooms and areas in the ground floor. We hired somebody to help us with this and, whew!, what a relief that everything’s […]

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Space-saving kitchen ideas

Kitchen cabinets should be designed as optimal as possible when it comes to saving space. It is important to consider this when planning one’s kitchen and incorporating all the basic kitchen activities with proper storage and utilization. For instance, grouping together utensils, plates, containers, and other items with the same function or purpose, i.e. keep […]

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Small but significant

Construction is booming, and many say this is a sign of an economic up-trend. Whether true or not, what is unquestionable is the fact that it is a complicated business. There are so many things, stages, procedures to attend to, aside from the varied scope of work it has to undergo: the foundation preparation, including […]