If you have the luxury of timing the sale of your home, then you have the upper hand in selling. You can do many things to help your home sell quickly without languishing. The top two are staging your home and pricing it right within your current market. Go through your home, inside and […]
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Ingredients 1 lb frozen bread dough 2 cups of pasta sauce (a sweet canned sauce like Ragu Robusto! Parmesan and Romano works well) 1/4 cup olive oil 1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese (use a good Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese — you’ll be glad you did!) Thaw bread dough and allow it to rise. Punch it down and
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Sunday, Stephen Davey preached on Titus 1:1-3. This is the third week in a row at my church that he went over this passage, but for good reason. In that passage, he noted a number of topics. The one I wanted to share with you is on Godliness. Stephen noted that, in passion, your life
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I hate to say this, but in my very first apartment, there were roaches. Yes, I moved immediately, but how could I know the bugs didn’t travel with me? Well, we put everything into a U-Haul to move. As soon as we arrived at my new apartment, I set off a fogger in the trailer
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In the process of getting our home ready to put on the market, I needed to either get some stubborn marks off the walls or do some repainting. I found that Magic Eraser works well. But, unless I used the magic eraser and then rubbed the area with a damp cloth, some ingredient in the
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When you pour paint from the can into another container, leftover paint is left in the ridges. When the lid is tightened, that leftover paint turns into rust. Tip: Simply use paper towels to get all that extra paint out and leave the ridges dry before tapping the top onto the can. Tip: You can
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If you have the original wall paint, you can have the paint store make you a quart with half the formula in it (you will need to provide the original formula and base). Many builders will paint the ceiling with a “half color.” We used Sherwin Williams white gold as our wall color. Our builder
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Is this possible? YES. You’ll need: matching wall paint a small roller and roller pan (Sherwin Williams makes a nice touch up kit) Repair the wall as needed. On a clean and dry wall, use the small roller dipped in a very small amount of paint. Cover the area with paint and then dry roll
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We reorganized a room a few years ago and carpet indentions reminded me every day that furniture had been moved. Drove me crazy! I realized there is a simple way to make the carpet pop back up : hot steam from an iron! Put distilled water in your iron. Allow the iron to heat. Place
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Is there a layer of something on your moldings? A few things to try: Use a Swiffer sheet and lightly rub Use a dampened sponge and lightly rub then dry If neither of these ideas remove the grime from your molding, you may have dust in your paintable caulk. If so, you can get a
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