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Things to Put on Your Fall Maintenance List

10 October 201712 September 2019 Michelle from Modern Architecture Concept

Spruce up your home this fall season with some of our easy tips to make your home more cozy, beautiful and welcoming for the long holiday season to come! Plus learn some simple maintenance tips that will make a huge impact for your home!

Photo: Harold Leidner Landscape Architects

Fall is officially here, which means that the leaves are turning, people are gearing up for the holiday season, and it’s time to complete some last minute to do items before the temperature drops and fall turns to winter. Here are some chores you may want to include on your list to keep your home in beautiful condition as we ease into cooler weather.

Look Up

People often forget about their home’s roof, loft insulation, chimney, and gutters because they’re not at eye level. However, keeping these important pieces of your home is vital for its infrastructure and can help prevent water, ice, and other damage to your home. Start by cleaning your gutters of any leaves, twigs, or other debris that may have built up over the summer months. Gutters with a clear pathway allow water to flow freely away from your home, which protects your foundation from water damage. You should also spot check your roof for any cracks, holes, or tears that may be present. If you notice anything, have it repaired right away so winter weather doesn’t make it worse and cause leaks inside your home. A lot of repairs you can do on your own, and you can even order supplies online from stores like build4less. If you plan to use your chimney throughout the winter, you may want to have someone come clean it out to keep it clear of debris, which can cause a chimney fire.

Photo: Rikki Snyder

Complete Final Lawn Maintenance

Once winter weather arrives, chances are you won’t be doing much lawn maintenance. Making one last lawn care effort should be on everyone’s fall home maintenance list, as it prepares your landscaping for the winter months. Decide what you want to do with your leaves. Some people rake and bag them while others choose to mulch them, which can provide your soil with extra nutrients.

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Photo: Mary Prince Photography

Insulate

Having a well-insulated home can not only help keep you and your family warm during cold weather months, but it can also save you money on your monthly utility bills by reducing the amount of energy you need to heat your home. Caulk and use weather stripping around your windows and doors to block out drafts. If you have energy-efficient windows, inspect them to ensure they’re still in good condition and don’t have any gaps. Head up to your attic to inspect your insulation. If you can see the joists in your attic, chances are you don’t have enough insulation and should add more.

Photo: Gil Walsh Interiors

Service Your Furnace

Fall is a great time to have your furnace inspected before you turn it on for the winter. Call an HVAC professional and request an inspection and cleaning. Regular servicing can keep your furnace running efficiently and help reduce your monthly heating bill and even help prolong the life of your unit.

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Check Your Plumbing

The last thing you want to happen is to have a water line freeze or burst in the middle of winter. Prep your pipes by wrapping them in insulation, which can not only provide peace of mind knowing your plumbing is protected, but can keep your plumbing running efficiently. If you have any hoses outside, detach and drain them so they don’t freeze and cause damage.

Maintaining a thorough fall maintenance checklist can help keep your home in great shape. Most of the tasks take a weekend to complete and can save you a lot of money in the long run in costly repairs.

Most Popular Summer Garden Ideas: Choosing The Best Plants

17 June 2015 Michelle from Modern Architecture Concept

When it comes for us to decide how to decorate our gardens, we take no risk to choose the beautiful decorative plants. During the summer season, you are better to assemble flowers and shrubs in a way that they give attractive and charming look to your gardens. For example, if you don’t like species that require a lot of shade and moisture, give preference to the ones which can grow well in intense climate and under the sunlight.

If you have just started thinking how to decorate your garden summers, speak to a gardener or a nursery owner about the most suitable plants.

Plants of Tomatoes

Tomatoes certainly give a wonderful and remarkable look to your gardens. Bring home plants of tomatoes as these can grow nicely even when the temperature is 50 degrees C. Tomatoes thrive with six to eight hours of full sunlight, so it is better to not plant them in heavy rainfall climate. The tomato plants will add beauty to your garden. Of course, when the tomatoes ripe you can use them as a meal. Allow to grow to a maximum length and keep on cutting the harsh and dead bushes to create freshness.

Witch Hazel

The American species of witch hazel are good to use during the months of November and December. On the other hand, the Asian species of this plant bloom during January and February. Witch hazel is drought tolerant, so this will be ideal to have in your garden when the climate is too hot and there is no rainfall. This plant not only looks beautiful but also gives you cool and calm shade in the hot sunny days. It is hardy against disease and insects. Once plants bloom, you can see vibrating colors and fragrance added to your lovely garden.

Okra Plants

The okra plants thrive in hot weather with great ease. As a tradition, these plants are a part of many Asian and Australian gardens. It is a delicious southern vegetable plant that gives cooling effects in the warm areas. Just like tomatoes, start okra plants indoor and then transplant them outside during the summer season. The best time for these plants to grow is the end of June till August. Treat the roots gently and carefully when you decide to replant them. Pick off the okra pods the time when their length is over four inches, otherwise they are likely to become too mature and weak.

Autumn and Winter Squash

If you want squash varieties to give your garden color and appealing look, then there are multiple varieties to consider such as acorn, bananas, butternuts, buttercup, carnival, gold nuggets, pumpkins, and turban etc. All of these squash types need fun sun and dry environment as well as well-drained soil for proper growth. Their vines require lots of room because they can grow up to a length of 5-10 square feet.

Ninebark

Ninebark is an easy to grow shrub that needs to be handles with keen attention and great care. Due to its vast array of colors, this will add nice look to your garden. It requires little maintenance, but be aware powdery mildew that comes from peeling bark during the winter season.

All of these plants are suitable for summer season, with some nice to grow in winters. You need not to spend a fortune to give your gardens exceptional look. What your plants need is regular maintenance and proper watering.

Garden Accessories Products

30 April 201501 May 2015 Michelle from Modern Architecture Concept

Summer is coming and it’s time to decorate our homes sine qua non of our garden. As a lot of people interested in the hobby like me loves the garden. In the garden of your house with your family, friends or romantic for yourself, you can create a nostalgic and enjoyable living space. Small artificial waterfall in your garden, handmade pots of brightly colored sneakers, wooden garden accessories, colorfully decorative garden lights, you can create a garden furniture and decorative colored bamboo style furniture from the palette.

Our house in the summer as we used to relax in our garden. How important is the home decoration accessories in garden decoration is so important. Spring is quite high price for its accessories will be more profitable to make preparations in advance. Or it may reveal a bit more creative ideas by making your own small research facility and you can decorate your garden with accessories that you have made with their own manual labor.

A bit away from the busy schedule came time to leave ourselves to nature. If you opportunities to take a vacation if stylish You take your own life in your garden accessories can decorate your bamboo furniture and interesting design swing and the accompanied by the sound of birds, the family’s laughter, the smell of the trees, with the dinners you give your friends can spend a weekend full of great love.

Garage Creatively decoration

02 April 201507 April 2015 Michelle from Modern Architecture Concept

Facade may be a building vogue element of the garage within which first we’ll offer careful thought. This opens limitless conceivable outcomes: in creating a dream house, a significant enterprise to find a perfect alternative of structure, color and speedier utilizing building animating parts within the in the meantime creating exceptional and trendy garage outside. While not AN aesthetic capability garage ought to perform security capability from aerates and environmental conditions (rainfalls, winds temperature contrasts).

Effectively picked garages outside enhances its aesthetic consider well as a heat protection. Moreover, it offers assurance from ecological impacts and fitly expands the house price. In addition outer surface finishing is basically a bit of home surroundings. You ought to not neglect to enthusiasm toward support within the event that it has to be painted or improved

The use of blocks may be a acknowledge technique for decorating garages creatively. This material is enduring and resistant to ecological impacts. You’ll use totally different colors and designs of blocks and it’s not needed to color them furthermore. Blocks and cement square measure indispensable and solid, nevertheless the delicate leaky consolidation. With this reason it’s needed to hide the garage wall with waterproof material. Repairs of block walls won’t take plenty of your time. But for quite whereas it’ll want you to get rid of collected plaque and salts.

Wood may be a typical garage decorating material. Timber garage front offers heat and solace. Basically, they match each town and city homes. Garage walls created or increased from wood can look exceptionally regular. Typically spruce wood is employed for veneer finishing, on the grounds that its whole structure is swish, thick and breathable. By the manner its heat physical phenomenon is close to zero. Picket exterior adornment will while not a lot of a stretch match with alternative finishing materials.

Vinyl complete prevalence is set by its lifetime, straightforward mounting and small value. Vinyl decoration is enduring, presumably not as long as a block or wood, in spite of the actual fact that to mount it’s less stern and fewer big-ticket. Vinyl garage decorations don’t need periodical painting. a lot of to the present, paint are often drenched on the entire surface, thus it doesn’t blur and not peel off. This covering doesn’t need a substantial quantity of care as all one has to do is simply to scrub and let it dry.

Aluminum garage decoration and finishing is such an outstanding possibility material to vinyl, on the grounds that it’s in addition shabby, sturdy and needs minimum attention. Metal cowl are often painted mistreatment any color supplying you with the chance to style your garage all told your required ways in which. But regarding whether or not it will blur, metal demonstrates AN oxidization mark. Thus it’ll want you to repaint and take care of the garage.

Garden Decoration

23 March 201527 March 2015 Michelle from Modern Architecture Concept

Garden decoration garden is one of the absolute must for homes. Everyone to decorate the garden has a different method. These methods include the person’s family life, family life to, income level, growth environment, traditions and customs, tastes and preferences of the child’s age and number of children, to be childless and will vary according to such differences

Decorating business is not difficult as it seems. And there is no need to spend a lot of money. For example, can we make a better garden than before making different designs using our old stuff. Garden design there are designers who graduated from the school. If you say I can not deal with this kind of design can make the designers who have graduated from school. If you do not have money to give to designers and plenty of free time if you can do it yourself. It is not as difficult as it seems.

That new material for decoration is not mandatory. It is possible to put out new products that can attract everyone’s attention on the result of the modification made of old material. This will be enough to paint or add a few small design. These additions must be made before staining the product. Later painting will be more difficult to do and will get around. Replacement of the goods of this type design in the old place, replacing those items will relieve you psychologically.

Old appliances that use goods or those who do not want to deal with repairs in the decoration store, there are different products for every style. It is quite easy to find products for every taste and preferences and supplier of these products in the transport means to get rid of the additional costs