Justin Pierce is a real estate investor and real estate agent who regularly writes about his experiences buying, renovating and selling houses in the Washington area. If you want to sell your home then you have a lot of decisions to make. One of the most important of all those decisions is the list price....
Filed under: Design, Home Improvement Courtesy of Zillow Digs By Kerrie Kelly Dining rooms are a wonderful place to express your style through furniture, lighting, art, and color. Here are five favorite dining room styles, and the elements that make them so appealing. Tailored and Traditional Traditional style is all about the details: intricate carving, unique upholstery, textured linens, and...
Filed under: Buying, How To Shutterstock By Paula Pant Even if you didn't fall in love, every open house is an opportunity to learn still more about what you're really looking for in a home. You can learn a lot from a visit to an open house, from whether a home is really as amazing as it looks in photos to whether the street noise is tolerable. But one thing that isn't always so clear after visiting an...
Over the summer I ripped up the old boards on my deck and replaced them with new pressure-treated boards. Now that they’ve had time to dry out, I’m about to stain the deck, but I’ve discovered that a handful of boards are already splintering and cracking. This is really disappointing, especially since I spent a...