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Check out what’s happening with Myers Constructs as well as the latest news and trends in home renovation.
Where There’s Smoke, There’s Fire
Last night, I got a text message at an odd hour. I generally let these off-hour calls and messages roll into the next workday. But I took a look at the message anyway, as I was pouring myself a glass of wine. Here is what it said: “Had a dryer fire @ home…” […]
Nail Gun Art
OK its fake but still funny! nailgun art
Avoiding “Remuddles” Will Preserve Your Home’s Value
I recently surveyed this home in a nice leafy area of the city, very close to Jenkintown. Like many homes in Philadelphia, you can see this house has great bones. This center-hall Colonial was built in the 1910s of great materials and craftsmanship. This is one of the most efficient floor plans of homes you can find. […]
Anti-Vinyl, And Proud of It
One of the things that distinguishes a higher-end remodeling project from a lower-end one is the products that are used. Typically, a less-expensive project will use cheaper products. Many times, these cheaper products will not last as a long as higher-priced ones. If you think about it, you can purchase cheaper products two or three times over within the same time frame that a more expensive product would last. Another thing to remember is that cheaper products will typically pollute more than more expensive ones. An example of this is vinyl siding. The case against vinyl siding is illustrated nicely in this video clip from the documentary Blue Vinyl. Vinyl siding is not recyclable. It pollutes when it’s made — and later when it’s removed and goes to the dump. No one else will tell you this. The guy selling vinyl siding door-to-door in your neighborhood is certainly not going[...]
Here’s a Post We Love from Canadian Kitchen & Bath
BLUM hardware co created this aging suite to show you how your mobility is effected as you age, and how great kitchen design can help you age in place. BLUM VIDEO Listen to the speakers comments too on how most kitchen renovation buyers spend more time researching their car purchase than their kitchens, even though we all try to keep kitchens much longer than we keep our cars. […]
Digging Out
Dear readers, We have held off sending our regular newsletter until more of us dig our way out. In the mean time here is a snow man to make you giggle. I saw this snow man at my NPB branch in Chestnut Hill. Send us your snow man snaps and we will post them too; Our fabulous newsletter will be going out early next week. Let us know if you want to add anyone to our e newsletter list! And remember we are always looking for great newsletter ideas or questions!
Another Lucky Hoodie Recipient!
Here's a Myers hoodie winner from a recent giveaway on MomsLikeMe.com!
We are Looking for Home Owner Thoughts on Issues
We want to address issues that matter to our readers. Please give us some feedback on the following questions, or feel free suggest other ideas to us. 1. What's the one thing you would change about your home, if you could? 2. What's the biggest energy-saving change you've made in your home during the past year? 3. What one home product/appliance could you not survive without? etc. Thanks very much!
Red Oak Flooring at Lowest Prices of the Decade!
Just off the phone with my flooring pro who gave me some news to get excited about! There is so much red oak in clear/select (the best) on the market that prices are very low! In fact the cost of these top shelf red oak floors installed and refinished are the same as the price of many lower quality pre finished flooring products. If you have been putting off new flooring for your home, now is the time to buy it.
Who Wouldn’t Want to Use This?
Whatever happened to water fountains? Look at these beauties! You would feel like royalty using these. I did when I happened upon them at the Parkway Administration Building, a beautiful, LEED-certified building on the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina. These are a perfect example of how great design and craftsmanship make life better, even on the seemingly mundane level of getting a drink of water, which we all take for granted in the U.S. Bottled water is very wasteful. It costs more than gasoline. It puts millions of pounds of plastic into the landfills and the Pacific Gyre, where it kills animals. And plastic containers have also been linked to cancer in humans. Businesses and other non-domestic buildings should bring back water fountains! Make them beautiful, and people will use them.
