House Fixing Solutions

Use Landscape Lighting To Enhance Safety

While some people prefer a very in-your-face style of home security presence, there are others who lean more towards a subtle, multi-purpose approach to ensuring their home’s safety.

One way to accomplish a more low-key, yet attractive level of security is to install landscape lighting around your home.

Landscape lighting can come in many forms — such as the lamp post you see above, as miniature can lights embedded into shrubberies and flower beds, or even as solar or LED pathway lights.

The point of landscape lighting is to help illuminate your yard and home so you can monitor the exterior parts of your home without having large unattractive security lights making your home feel more like a prison than a peaceful retreat from the outside world.

Landscape lighting has other uses as well — you can throw barbeques or other outdoor social gatherings longer than the sun is up; they can be used as identifiers for people trying to find your home; and generally they will help to improve your curb appeal.

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Listening to You Talk About What You Want

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Good residential architects design nice houses for their clients.  Great residential architects listen to their clients first, then design wonderful houses for them.

Rand Soellner Architect starts every project with what he calls the Programming.  As the word implies, this begins by Mr. Soe

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Packing Tips: Open Me First

Moving to Boston is now very easy to do; with dedicated online search tools just a few clicks away, you can now find the best North End moving company – or one based in other areas of Boston – in a matter of minutes. The actual moving day will be even more enjoyable with everything properly planned, including the task of packing and unpacking. To help you pack and unpack items properly, here’s a simple system you can use.

Start by packing items you will need on a day-to-day basis. Mark these items as “Essentials” and group them based on rooms. When pa Read full post…

Circular Cottage Plans – Awesome Boat House

This circular cottage plan is the coolest retreat on a hot day. Austin, Texas-based architecture firm Bercy Chen Studio blend their European and East Asian backgrounds into a totally unique architectural style that we love. They sent us photos of their Shore Vista Boat House in Lake Austin that we just had to share. This contemporary style house is a veritable playground for the water-lover, set right on a lake with a built-in water feature that brings the house to life. The circular-shaped cottage is wrapped in a winding spiral staircase that gives you the external tour of the whole home, leading you past its outdoor entertaining areas and glass walls that offer a glimpse of what’s inside. M Read full post…

Jay Leno discovers the easiest-Ever Christmas tree

The Tonight Show recently featured a Solutions product on Jay’s Christmas Gift Ideas Part II. We were flattered when contacted by the show about highlighting one of our favorite Christmas products. After seeing it live on TV alongside some products he poked fun at, we are far too excited not to share what we consider his positive review. Watch all four minutes or skip to the end because the Solutions Pull-up Tree is reviewed last. See Jay in person demonstarting just how fast setting up your Christmas tree can be. <

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Quick DIY Projects for Under One Hundred Pounds!

Want to update your home but dont have a lot of money to do so? Then try some of the room or home makeover ideas below all can be done for less than £100!

• Grab a paintbrush and a new bucket of paint and just watch the entire feel and mood of a room change with a new coat of paint in a different color. If youd like to be up-to-the-minute, try the in colors for 2011, light green, blue, citrus yellow, or pink-lilac.
• Head to your local nursery and purchase several plants or a live tree to place in a room. Add a decorative pot and youve got an instant focal point and conversation piece.
• Instead of buying lamps in the same old, same old shape of fat bottom and slender neck, why not get some lamps in unusual shapes?

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