How to Transform a Spare Bedroom into a Home Office
In today's world, the commute from home to work can be as little as a few steps. Whether you work remotely full-time, part-time or occasionally need a quiet space to...
How to Plan the Best Garage Workshop
Whether you're a car-enthusiast, wood-worker, crafter, or do-it-all DIYer, turning your garage into a workshop can provide a dedicated space to work on projects, store tools, and get creative. However,...
How the Right Lighting Enhances Home Safety
When it comes to creating a safe and secure home environment, we tend to focus on the usual suspects: installing and maintaining smoke and carbon monoxide detectors, keeping areas free...
Tips for Closing Your Inground Pool
All good things must come to an end…including summer pool season. As you squeeze out the last few dips in your inground pool, it’s time to start thinking about getting...
Summer Electrical Safety Tips
With summer right around the corner, chances are you’ll be spending more and more time outdoors gardening, doing yardwork, enjoying pool time, and having backyard barbeques. And whether you’re working...
Health Benefits of Hot Tub Use
The best things in life can’t be bought - but sometimes they can be given a helping hand. If your goal is to reduce stress, ease aches and pains, and...
Simple Tasks to Improve Your Life
If you’re like most people, you’re constantly on the lookout out for ways to feel more satisfied, more productive, and less stressed. Yet with the pressures of day-to-day life, it’s...
Holiday Lighting Safety Tips
For some, the holiday season starts right after Halloween, while others prefer to wait until the day after Thanksgiving (or even later) to bring out the decorations. One way to...
How to Prepare for the Next Power Outage
Extreme weather across the US is becoming increasingly more common. If the upswing in activity has taught us anything, it’s the importance of being prepared should weather take center stage...
Things You Shouldn’t Store in a Bathroom
Toiletries, bandages, medications, and more – things you’re likely to find in any bathroom cabinet or cupboard. Yet the bathroom is the last place many such items should be kept....
The Best Lighting for Homework and Reading
Nowhere is it etched in stone that poor lighting will harm a student’s vision. Then again, as a careful parent, are you willing to take that risk? Probably not –...
How to Get Your Home in Prime Selling Condition
In today’s hot real estate market, one could argue that houses are practically selling themselves. Yet certain issues could turn off would-be buyers and even stop a sale in its...
How to Brighten Up a Space
Size, obstructions, and lack of windows can make a room feel dark, gloomy, and uninviting. To compensate, structural changes are not always an option. So aside from illuminating every corner,...
Repairs That Need Fast & Thorough Action
Are you the type who usually finds a reason to put off doing something until tomorrow? Or, conversely, do you power through your to-do list quickly and efficiently? Or maybe...
How to Reduce Homeowners Insurance Premiums
So, what’s an electrical service contractor doing by writing about homeowner’s insurance? We’ll get to that in a minute. But first, let’s acknowledge the fact there are only so many...