Category Archives: Home solutions

Change of Seasons, Change of Decor

Summer is definitely out and it’s time to take down the gauzy airy curtains and light upholstery. With the changing of the season comes the need to redecorate your home not only for aesthetic reasons but also for more practical reasons. Weatherproofing your interior can make an otherwise drab and dreary rainy season warmer and…

Preparing for the Rainy Season

The temperatures are still on the feverish side but the rain clouds are starting to make an appearance – it’s time to get your home ready for the rainy season. Now that May rainshowers have started, there are a number of home maintenance tasks that you have to do.  Here are a couple of things…

On Getting a Home Loan: Tips for the First-Timer

As a little girl, I remember playing in my little playhouse, pretending that it was a castle.  Now that I’m all grown up with a kid, I have to admit that I haven’t totally outgrown the idea of being a princess living in the house of my dreams. What I now realize is that achieving…

How to Keep the Air Inside Your House Clean

As you’re hunched over your home computer, busily figuring out the new product bundling software your boss sent you, you can’t help but stop to think about your daughter’s incessant coughing.  You’re worried she may be having another one of her asthma attacks. Even indoors, we should think about how clean the air is.  There…

Fire Safety and Prevention for your family

March is the Fire Prevention Month in our country yet we’ve witnessed fire incidents left and right in the past few weeks. A number of fire cases were caused by faulty electrical wiring or overheating appliances, while there are also some which were caused by negligence of their neighbors.

Storage Solutions for Toys

You could’ve sworn you nearly blurted out a thousand expletives in four different languages when you almost tripped on that yoyo lying on your living room floor.  If there’s one thing that is sure to send your blood pressure soaring, it’s seeing toys scattered around the house.  As much as you’d want to keep everything…