That's interesting, because my experience was actually the opposite. When we were adding a small guesthouse, the online map showed an easement running...

Totally agree about brick being doable with the right prep. A friend of mine renovated an old farmhouse bathroom a couple years back, and she went wit...

We went the purifier route too, and yeah, it did help a bit—but honestly, I wish we'd thought ahead like you did. When we redid our kitchen cabinets l...

Haha, I feel this. We tapped into our equity a few years back to upgrade our windows and insulation—nothing flashy, but man, the energy savings have b...

Haha, I felt exactly the same when we replaced ours last year. Honestly, focusing mostly on the U-factor helped simplify things a lot... lower numbers...

Good point about checking existing coverage first. When we did our kitchen remodel a couple years back, our contractor was pretty insistent about extr...