Among the advantages of leasing an apartment is your freedom from worrying about constant maintenance and repairs. But, tenants still end up paying for the cost of maintenance through one of many procedures. Landlords who fail to charge for maintenance and must find a way to charge tenants for it might find it difficult to […]

When some parents opt to enroll their children in big day care centres, many parents still prefer the personal attention that children receive through Modern-day care centres. Home day care providers have also increased because of changes in the economy that have forced workers to find new careers. Communities, though, pass different zoning laws to […]

We like playing with Legos. However, high school senior Jess Long really likes making things out of the colorful, iconic pieces. Like, really, really likes it. The 18-year-old Elk Grove, California, student has six 5-foot-tall containers and assorted large bins with nothing but Lego pieces. Her massive collection — helped in part with her mother, […]

Lior and Shiri Haimovitch were ready for a change after years of living in cosmopolitan Tel Aviv. So the two youth classmates — he conducts an online security website; she’s a community social worker — moved their family to a moshav, a cooperative agricultural community with a slower rate. Its environment is much like the […]

Section 8 housing grants assist a disadvantaged person manage housing. Section 8 grants are federal housing vouchers that pay a portion of a recipient’s monthly rent expenses and don’t need to be paid back. Housing vouchers are processed and paid with local public housing agencies (PHA) which are overseen by the Department of Housing and […]

If you’re feeling confined by your present kitchen, these 10 makeovers might help you break out of this box. From a U.K. kitchen that gained distance from a storage device into a Portland, Oregon, kitchen brought to life following a flame, these spaces require unconventional approaches to design. Connected: How to Remodel Your Kitchen Before […]

Everything about this 1896 house in Belgium reflects the love and energy which have gone into its own revival. The owners, photographer and founder of Yvestown blog Yvonne Eijkenduijn and visual programmer Boris van de Grint, have spent the previous four decades painstakingly renovating it to make it back to its former glory, while adding […]

What home product layouts drive you insane? I know I have been tempted to throw my cable box, microwave and vacuum cleaner out the window. For Tony Fadell and Matt Rogers, the humble thermostat’s unsightly and hard design obtained under their skin. Both, both former Apple employees, researched past and current thermostats to come up […]

I don’t know about you, but I can never appear to get my load of kitchen remodeling ideas. I was excited when I came across the rooms designed by Fivecat Studio, a four-person architecture company based in Pleasantville, New York. Each of the firm’s projects is a close collaboration between partner Mark LePage, his spouse, […]

Tile layout is king in almost any bathroom renovation. Planning tile layout carefully from the beginning can assist with everything from framing changes to market locations to fixture places to lighting places. Without careful planning, your results may be close to everything you wanted — but not quite ideal. I’ve a whole lot of rules […]