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July 11, 2025

4 Ways to Boost Your Home’s Curb Appeal

With so much to do both inside and outside your home, it can be easy to overlook your home’s curb appeal, but it has a big impact on your property as a whole. Not only does good curb appeal make your home more inviting to others, it increases the amount of time that homeowners want to be at home and can positively impact property value, too. In other words, there are plenty of reasons to spend a little time, effort, and money working to enhance your property’s curb appeal. Thankfully, doing so is more straightforward than you might think. With just a few adjustments, you can significantly upgrade your home's curb appeal. Below you'll find ...

July 9, 2025

How to Create a Beautiful Garden in Your Backyard

When it comes to renovating your home, it’s natural to get excited about putting in a new kitchen or bringing in a creative feature. But that’s not the only thing that can bring a lot of joy to your life. In fact, one of the biggest areas that will, isn’t inside the home at all! When you want to really bring your home alive, don’t forget about the garden! A beautiful garden adds so much to a home, offering a peaceful tranquility, pops of color, and a welcoming air. Find Some Inspiration To get things underway, you will want to make sure that you’re looking online for some inspiration. With sites like Pinterest, you can look at different ...

June 28, 2025

10 Things To Consider As You Prepare to Move

Moving can be a really exciting thing for your family. It can open new opportunities, introduce new friendships, and inspire adventure. It can also be very stressful for everyone. There's so much to do and plan and prepare for...especially with a house full of kids! It’s understandable to experience burnout, but as they say – fail to prepare, prepare to fail. There’s plenty you can do in the weeks running up to the move to make those few days of chaos easier. Read on to find 10 tips to help you prepare for a big move. #1 - Plan in Advance The first point on the list is more of a general one. If you want to make your ...

June 28, 2025

What Does The Summer Heat Reveal About Your Home?

Summer is such a busy season, as is the spring that leads up to it. In all the madness of the end of the school year and the going and coming that baseball games, church camps, and family vacations bring, it be difficult to do everything we need to do to get our homes ready for summer. Sometimes we miss a trick and forget all about a few key elements that can help keep our homes cool in the heat of the summer! And, they can help keep our energy bills lower, too. It's almost the height of the summer season, and the weather’s been getting warmer every day. If you're like me (and everyone else I know in south Mississippi), you're looking ...

June 24, 2025

How to Make a Birthday Magical

There’s a funny thing about kids’ birthday parties. You can spend three hours agonizing over the perfect dinosaur theme (let alone any theme to be honest), order custom balloons, match every napkin to the cupcake frosting, and still... It’s the moment someone accidentally trips into the gift table that gets talked about for months. While that sounds like a scene from a bad movie, some sort of disaster usually does happen when you try to make everything appear perfect. Let's face it: generally, kids remember the random stuff. The sugar-high laughter. The race to grab the last slice of pizza. The time their aunt or cousin got too competitive ...