Interior

Installing a full-fledged solar panel system will get you a higher price when you sell your home, but if you can't afford to shell out tens of thousands

Home Sweet Superbowl The overlap in major league sports seasons every fall prompts bromo sapiens to flock to a year-end rite of passage -- hunkering down in

Big, blustery Hurricane Irene is barreling up the East Coast and she's got her eye on your home. And when she sits around your house, she sits around your

From building-in more curb appeal to installing more square footage, home improvements can help improve your home's value. Improved value can allow you to bump up the selling price

It's one thing to have a home inspected, it's another to have a fly on the wall during improvements. A good building inspector can give the house a good

One of the few things you can do in today's market to shore up or protect the value of your home is to give it a makeover. That's especially

Home Sweet Superbowl Forget that breakfast-in-bed pampering Moms get on Mother's Day. Pops prefer primal hunkering down in spaces built for chest beating. To celebrate Father's Day, online real

Simple do-it-yourself home improvements can turn your listing into a much more valuable sale this spring. Make those upgrades "green" and some of the work will both extend value

Egyptians pan hymen-in-a-boxNo way related to staging-in-a-boxCall it "staging in a box." Now you can stage homes for sale with lightweight, collapsible chairs, sofas, tables, and beds that

Va voom! 'Hottest First Lady'Consumers complain Chinese drywall stinks, corrodes, makes them sick. EPA finds it unlike US-made drywall. Investigation to continue and likely find real problems.by Broderick

Planning now to get in a contractor's pipeline of work orders for the spring can give a homeowner a negotiating edge for home improvements and remodeling work.by Broderick

Tomorrow's fireplace today is fire as art. Take the Xtreme. It's not enough to call Fireplace Xtrordinair's Xtreme a "fireplace." It just doesn't quite do it justice. The creation is

A recent New York Times story set off alarms about a granite counter top emitting radiation, but failed to mention independent academic studies of numerous granite samples tested

Painting the exterior of your home the right way can boost the value of your home, add a positive new color scheme or slather on a protective coat

In the brave new money-tight world of housing, the growing inventory of homes is prompting more and more sellers to stage the deal so it stands out from

Freeland, WA-based Barbara Moran founded a virtual staging company, Virtual Staging, virtually by accident. Virtual staging typically includes online photos, videos and other images of a home for sale,

You don't have to be a star, baby to be in Beth Ann Shepherd's show (Apologies to Marilyn McCoo, the Fifth Dimension and those too young to remember.). Sheperd

Think you really know how to go green at home? Sure, you've swapped out those incandescent bulbs with fluorescents. You have a new thermostat. You've stuffed your attic with

Putting a fresh coat of paint on your home will prolong the life of its skin, pump up the value, and revive its curb appeal, which are all