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RE: What if your city paid you to use less water?
I tried the buffalo grass route when we moved into our new place last year, mostly because I liked the idea of something low-maintenance and drought-tolerant. It looked decent in spring, but by mid-July it was basically ...
RE: Green Mortgages vs. Energy-Efficiency Loans: Which Makes More Sense?
We ran into a similar situation last year. I spent weeks reading up on green mortgages, thinking we’d get some huge benefit for all the extra paperwork. In reality, the requirements were so specific - like needing a HERS...
RE: Building base structures - what if you had to start over?
BUILDING BASE STRUCTURES - WHAT IF YOU HAD TO START OVER? Funny enough, I spent way more time obsessing over vapor barriers and exterior insulation than I did picking out kitchen cabinets. I remember standing in my unfi...
RE: Weekend crafts: do you prefer building from scratch or upcycling old stuff?
That hits home. When we moved in, I tried to retrofit an old cabinet into our weirdly-shaped laundry nook. Measured everything twice, still ended up shaving off a quarter inch here and there. It took way longer than buil...