It’s spring allergy season in southeastern Wisconsin, and many people are suffering from the uncomfortable symptoms that allergies bring each year. Use these tips to prevent each room in your house from irritating any family members or visitors. They’ll thank you when their sneezing, sniffling and itchy eyes are greatly reduced! Encase all of your [...]
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Help Save the Earth (and Some Cash) With These Green Home Tips
What better way to start saving money than by helping create an eco-friendly home? Use these tips to start saving the environment from your own house. Change your air filters regularly. Dirty filters make your heating and cooling systems work harder. Not only does this waste energy, it also is a drain on your finances. [...]
Visit Shorewest, REALTORS® at the Home and Garden Show, March 15-24
The annual REALTORS® Home and Garden Show 2013 has arrived and is open March 15-24 at the Wisconsin Expo Center in State Fair Park. To get information on tickets, parking, and other general tips, please see the Home and Garden Show Website. Exhibits and stages at the show include the solutions seminar stage, providing innovative [...]
Shorewest, REALTORS® Home Tasks for Spring
Spring officially starts this month and every day is closer to warmer weather, green grass and new life. While spring seems far away from southeastern Wisconsin right now, there are some great spring maintenance tips to keep in mind as the weather warms up. Start with any inside tasks and get to work outside as [...]
Thinking About Remodeling? Use Shorewest’s Kitchen Trend Forecast to Update Your Home
Throughout the United States, kitchen remodeling is one of the top two jobs for large-scale home improvement. If you’re thinking about upgrading your kitchen, look at these six trends from HomeThangs.com, a popular home improvement superstore. Modern look — More kitchens are now featuring modern styling, with large open-concept spaces that often merge with living areas [...]
Shorewest Report: Remodeling is on the Rise
Since the housing bubble burst, spending on home improvements decreased dramatically. Now that the housing recovery is in full swing, we are seeing homeowners start to spend on new remodeling projects. In fact, spending on home improvements increased 9% in 2012, the first increase since 2007, according to the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University. [...]
How to Stage Your Home for Winter — INFOGRAPHIC by Shorewest, REALTORS®
Today is the first official day of winter — make sure you know how to stage your home with the new season starting (and each season throughout the year) by using our amazing new infographic below! Look for more infographics brought to you by Shorewest throughout the coming months. (To view the infographic at full [...]
6 Tips for “Greening Up” Your Home
Homeowners have consistently shown that green living and green homes are important to them. Not only is it better for the earth, living a green lifestyle has numerous financial incentives for homeowners. Furthermore, a green home is a huge incentive to over 50% of home buyers on the market. Here are 6 tips to help [...]
Green Living: Is This Housing Trend Here to Stay?
Green building and living has seen a surge in popularity since the new millennium began. While it remained an often-talked about issue before the recession, once the housing market was in trouble, living a green lifestyle took a backseat to bigger news. Now that the housing market is rebounding, green homes and lifestyles are starting [...]
Speed Cleaning Tips for Straightening Up in a Flash
No one likes to spend all of their time cleaning the house, and you might not always have an adequate amount of time to clean up before guests casually drop by. Use these 5 tips to speed up your cleaning process everyday Try using a snow windshield sweeper to pull pet hair off upholstery and [...]