Home Improvement

I don’t know if you’re feeling the squeeze in the home selling market where you live, but here in South Florida for the last year and a half we have watched our home values decline. It’s tough to sell a house in this market; it’s basically a buyers market right now. You can fix the yard up and paint interior and exterior walls and there are a million little things you can do such as removing all the clutter from the walls. You know what I mean you have seen the “fix your house up to sell” shows on television.

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April 3rd, 2008 | Tags: home fix up, kitchen remodeling, tile | Category: Home Improvement | Leave a comment

So you’ve been looking at some beautiful art tiles that would look lovely in your kitchen. The question is, are they suitable for a kitchen backsplash? Some gorgeous tiles look as if they might absorb water and other liquids, which means they would stain easily. Nobody wants that problem for their kitchen backsplash!

Will kitchen backsplash tiles absorb water? Yes, no, and maybe! It all depends on what tiles you choose.

The terms vitreous and nonvitreous are used to indicate the density and porosity of a tile. These characteristics determine how likely a tile is to absorb water. Tile manufacturers rate tiles in four categories.

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March 31st, 2008 | Tags: backsplash, backsplash kitchen tile, kitchen backsplash tile, tile | Category: Home Improvement | Leave a comment

When starting to think about either a new or remodeling project,here are some bathroom tile ideas to get you going.

1 - Visual treatment.

If you wish to create an interesting quality visual feel to your project, the use of color is important. A solid color for the floor is usually a good start. You can add borders of a different color to the floor, or you can create a border by alternating different colors. This kind of visual treatment can create a more interesting floor.

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March 17th, 2008 | Tags: bathroom, ceramic, design, ideas, installation, installing, lay, laying, pattern., planning, tile | Category: Home Improvement | Leave a comment

Selecting your ceramic tile may be the hardest part of your tile project. There are literally thousands of colors, sizes, shapes, grades and styles to choose from, such as ceramic, cut glass, metal, stone, and marble.

Make sure you hire a tile contractor to properly install your carefully selected tile. Following are tips to ensure your new tile is professionally installed:

• Find a tile contractor. Ask your tile supplier for names of professional tile contractors, inquire with friends and relatives who have had tile installed in their homes, or check the yellow pages for tile contractors.

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February 27th, 2008 | Tags: contractor, contractors, tile, tile contractor, tile contractors | Category: Home Improvement | Leave a comment

Roofing is are made from materials that vary in cost, weight, durability, color, and architectural style. The market for materials is dominated by asphalt shingles, tiles, metal products, and wood shingles or shakes. Here are some of the most common types used today.

Asphalt Shingle

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February 21st, 2008 | Tags: aluminum, asphalt, roof, Roofing, shakes, shingles, tile, wood | Category: Home Improvement | Leave a comment

After seeing the costs involved in installing ceramic tile flooring, many homeowners immediately choose other flooring options. But, when it comes to flooring, you often get what you pay for. What you will need to decide is what is more cost effective in the long run? Can you afford to have any other, cheaper kind of flooring replaced after several years, especially if the floor is going to routinely get wet? The durability may be worth the extra cost you will need to pay up front. Ceramic tile flooring can end up saving you money for years to come.

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February 15th, 2008 | Tags: Ceramic tile, Flooring, home decorating, how to, install, interior decorating, interior design, tile | Category: Home Improvement | Leave a comment

Natural stone has been used for flooring for hundreds of years. There are many choices, marble, and granite being the most popular. A new natural stone tile has entered the market – limestone. It is elegant in appearance and has become a very popular choice for homeowners.

Available in a variety of shades of light brown, beige, and yellow very few natural stones provide the elegance and rich appearance of limestone. The most common surface finish for limestone is matte, making it an excellent choice where moisture may be present, as the matte finish provides for a non-slip surface.

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January 25th, 2008 | Tags: floor, Flooring, granite, home imrpovement, limestone, marble, natural stone, tile | Category: Home Improvement | Leave a comment