home Renovation

What is a heart attack? A heart attack is a condition when the body stops transporting blood to the heart (majorly due to blockage of arteries). This results in loss of blood supply, which further leads to other complications and even death sometimes. Sadly, heart attacks are one of the ...

If you are on a budget, chances are, redoing the entire bathroom in granite is out of the question. Granite is an expensive material that will eat up a person’s budget faster than they can blink. While it looks beautiful, it is not worth the strain on your budget. You ...

Remember the bathroom tile? The ones you were ripping up because you wanted something new? Bust them up. Not too small, you still have to be able to use the chunks. Once you get them down into useable chunks, it’s time to turn them into a shower. Lay down some ...

The hardest part about any remodel is the cost it often incurs. This makes many people scared to try to remodel at all, and they end up deciding that they don’t want to remodel, so they end up living with the bathroom they have, no matter how inefficient it may ...

You can’t go in there just randomly tearing down walls; that could get disastrous. You have to figure out how big you want to make it (if you even want to expand the size at all). After you do that, you have to figure out if there are any load-bearing ...

I moved to Athens Georgia. I figured that since I had to start over anyway, at least I could do it without people’s opinions, judgments and lack of support. I didn’t need anyone watching me struggle to get back on my feet. I did what I knew how to do, ...

I decided to try a last-ditch attempt to save my house from foreclosure by filing for bankruptcy. The laws were changing soon on Chapter 13 bankruptcies and I figured I could file and save my home, make a payment plan to repay the debts and try to salvage what I ...

I was now 28 years old. Things were good, and I was feeling myself. I was doing everything I could do to be the Wonder Woman my kids believed I was. I was a single mom who had a career, a car and a truck, and my own home. I ...

It was now 2008 going into 2009 and the housing market was getting a little shaky. Across America, people were buying homes, investing in mortgage-backed securities and using hedge funds to buy whole communities. My neighborhood was changing too, and I could see the effects. My neighbors on both sides had ...

My realtors’ name was Mike B. I’m pretty sure he was Italian; he had an accent like he was from Italy and acted as real estate was his side job. He was young, cool and not afraid. We saw so many amazing houses, it was hard to choose. He also ...