Did you know that the carpet companies recommend that you steam your carpets every 12-18 months? 12 months for heavy traffic areas such as family rooms, hallways, etc and 18 months for low traffic areas such as bedrooms? And, if you don't the warranty on the carpet is voided. One could argue th
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06/03/2019
My blog has been doing very well. And, I mean very well...as in generating a very full time income. (In fact, for many it would be 2 full time incomes). My goal is to keep growing. So, I keep trying to learn and grow and diversify. I've been taking a bunch of steps lately to do that (including
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05/21/2019
My main website has been doing VERY well and earning a very full time income. One of my closest friends and I talked last summer about creating another site. Managing 2 sites is challenging, but doing it together as a team is much easier, especially since we each know how to do different things
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05/14/2019
Are gray paint color out? No, of course not. But, colors and home decor do evolve over the years. Cool grays were all the rage 5 to 10 years ago. Now, tastes have evolved to warm grays. These are often called greige...and that's a mixture of gray and beige. People often wonder how to pronounc
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05/06/2019
Holy cow! I just checked my google analytics and I have more than 500,000 pageviews in the last 30 days. In fact, over 543,000! How did I do it? Hint: It's not from blogging every day. Yes, it's about quality over quantity. In fact this is from under 300 blog posts (I thin 286 to be exact). A
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04/18/2019
Last week, I wrote an article comparing sisal and jute rugs. These are both natural fiber area rugs, and they do look kind of similar, but they definitely do have different properties. To make a long story short, jutes are much softer. You can easily put your feet on them and feel comforted. S
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03/11/2019
I'm super excited about this...and I almost forgot about the phone interview I did with Elizabeth Mayhew from the Washington Post. Several weeks ago when I checked my contact forms I had a request from Elizabeth Mayhew. I recognized the name instanteously. Why? Because I used to watch her ever
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03/07/2019
The other day, I got a phone call from someone in Kentucky who needed some help with his Brazilian Cherry floors. They were just sanded and refinished, and here's what they looked like: There were 4 other pictures like this. What's the problem? The refinisher added a sealer to the wood. And,
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02/26/2019
This is simply for fun. But, I'd love to know what your favorite paint color is. Sometimes when we get entrenched in our work, think about things in certain ways...in categories. Lately, I've been helping a lot of people pick paint colors (as well as stain color...and sometimes how to choose b
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02/20/2019
Lately, I've been doing a lot of in home design consultations. I help customers picking stain colors and pain colors. While I'm there, I often give them other design advice as well as tell them the right order to do things. (In this regards, I know much more than the average decorator given my
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02/06/2019
