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Are you like one of us and love watching TV shows about home improvement and decorating? There’s nothing better than watching a show that inspires you to get off the couch and start a home project of your own! Luckily for home enthusiasts there are many home shows out there, and we’ve found the perfect list of shows to get you inspired for the summer. Here are our favorites from the list:

“This Old House”

A show dating back to 1979 that still has a captive audience, it is one of the most popular home remodeling shows around. See your local listings for the channel.

“Extreme Makeover: Home Edition”

While a family in need is on vacation the crew and local contractors remodel or rebuild a home. This show will warm your heart seeing the reaction of the family’s faces and may inspire you to help others in your community. Channel: ABC

“Design on a Dime” 

With only $1,000 dollar budget to remodel and redecorate a room in a home, the designers have great ideas to spruce up any home! With hard economic times, this show reaffirms that home improvement can be affordable. Channel: HGTV

“Renovation Nation”

Host Steve Thomas remodels homes making them environmentally friendly. If you’ve considered going green in your home, this show has some great ideas. Channel: Planet Green

“Buy Me”

This show takes the viewers through the whole six month process of remodeling and selling a home from start to finish. A great show for professionals in the industry! Channel: HGTV

Want to see who else made the list? Take a look here.

If you love home remodeling and redecorating make sure to visit our Pinterest page, where we have boards created to store “Home How To’s”, “Kitchen Remodels” and more!

Have you ever wondered what your home would look like if you opened up your floor plan or had different flooring? Well if you’re like us and are interested in home remodeling then you will appreciate this site we’ve found! The Make Room is a site offered by Urban Barn, a Canadian home décor store founded in 1990, that allows you to design your room featuring their furniture and accessories.

The Make Room is an interactive online room decorating program that allows you to easily customize your space, there are a variety or programmed rooms or you can enter the dimensions of your room. After you’ve selected the size of your room, you can arrange windows and doors accordingly and select your desired flooring-be warned, there are a lot of options! From there you can select different furniture and styles offered from the Urban Barn. There are a variety of different products and styles to suite everyone’s taste; in fact it took us more than fifteen minutes to select a coffee table!

What we found most helpful about this site is the capability to email your designs to friends, print out your different room layouts, and save you creations online with a complete list of furniture that is used. The site allows you to decorate room after room, to determine which style best suites you and your family’s needs.

So what’re you waiting for? Visit their site and start decorating your living spaces, it is a fun and free way to determine if your home is ready to be spruced up! We have pinned the site to our Home How To’s Pinterest board.

If you are ready to get started with your home remodel or addition, be sure to contact Renewal Remodels & Additions today!

That’s right, we’ve hopped on the Pinterest Bandwagon.

Do you love reading home magazines or going window shopping? Then Pinterest is the perfect website for you! Pinterest is one of the fastest growing social media sites that is gaining popularity due to the ability to view thousands of images within categories that suit your interests. In other words, it is an online community for individuals to pin, organize, inspire and dream about all of their favorite subjects.

Pinterest is an online bulletin board concept where users create a profile for free and “pin” images or blog posts to their “boards” to refer to at a later time. It was initially created in 2010 as a place to store recipes, inspiration for arts & crafts, interior decorating and more; today there are more than 17 million users. Pinterest is also a great tool for businesses to share their products and services, that’s why Renewal Remodels and Additions is now featured on Pinterest. We created a page to display our previous and current projects, upon approval of the homeowner, for our customers to view and share with friends. In doing so, we have come to love Pinterest and wanted to share a few tips to get your started on the ever so popular website. Warning: Pinterest can become extremely addictive, and time consuming!

 First we would like to introduce you to a few basic Pinterest Terms:

  • Board: you will create a board, title and categorize it according to the content you wish to store on that board. Users can create multiple boards for different topics, such as: kitchen, dining rooms, etc.
  • Pin: A pin is the term used to describe the image you are storing on a board. It can be an image added from the internet or an image uploaded from your computer.
  • Re-pin: Users can “re-pin”- or store another user’s pin onto their board.
  • Pin It Button: This is an icon that you will want to download onto your internet browser, this button will allow you to store an image you find on the internet onto one of your boards.
  • Followers: As you start pinning and repining you will gain followers, these can be friends or people who admire your style (there are privacy settings to monitor followers).

Now that you have all the essentials, it’s time to join Pinterest and enter a world of creativity and inspiration at your fingertips. After you’ve created your account make sure to visit the Renewal Remodels & Additions page:

Renewal Remodels on Pinterest

Happy Pinning!

The Fourth of July is a day we all celebrate America’s independence with parades, concerts, fireworks, and of course BBQs with lots of festive food. We’ve gathered some of our favorite (and easy) Fourth of July recipes, to ensure you have a stress-free day!

Want a chocolate ice cream bar dipped in sprinkles? White chocolate covered strawberries dipped in sprinkles? A Rice Krispy sparkler on a Popsicle stick? Red, white, and blue Jello cups. All recipes are easy to make and perfect for your Fourth of July BBQ. Take a peek at our compilation on our Pinterest board.

Hope you enjoy the recipes, if you try one take a picture and post it to our Facebook or tag us in a pin; we’d love to see your creations! From our family to yours, we hope you have a safe, fun-filled Fourth of July with your friends and family.

The Spectacular Houzz.com

This week we can’t seem to get off Houzz.com, a user friendly website for professionals and homeowners that contains uploaded images of interior and exterior spaces, where to find the items and the contractor behind the beautiful space. This site is beneficial for professionals in the remodeling industry because it allows them to create a profile to display their previous project accomplishments. It’s also perfect for homeowners seeking a remodel expert or home decorating enthusiasts, who can view the multiple contractors profiles and select a professional that meets their needs.

Houzz.com is centered around their vast and organized selection of photo galleries that help people gain inspiration quickly. Users then create personal “ideabooks” to store their favorite interior & exterior spaces, contractors, information, and helpful hints. We love that Houzz.com offers the ability to share photographs and information from the website with friends through social media outlets such as Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest.

What is Houzz?

Founders Adi Tatarko and Alon Cohen created the site in 2009 after having difficulty communicating their design wants and needs to a remodel expert. They, like many home owners, found the process of looking for inspiration through magazines exhausting and frustrating; in response to their experience they created Houzz.com to help facilitate the home building, remodeling and decorating process allowing homeowners to spend more time enjoy the exciting process of creating a home.

In just three years, the site has gained unbelievable exposure, showcasing the work of more than 65,000 design professionals and containing more than 400,000 photographs organized to allow viewers to easily find the style that suits their needs. The site also accommodates on-the-go users with their 5-star rated iPad App that has received great reviews. Recently the New York Times release an article on the company as well as CNN who claims the site is the “Wikipedia of interior and exterior design”.

Renewal Remodels & Additions on Houzz

If you are currently in the process of remodeling or adding an addition to your home try utilizing this site. While you’re at it, check out our profile! Our profile displays all our projects in the Puget Sound area in organized ideabooks to help you find the style that best suits your tastes.

For many of us in the Pacific Northwest, installing air conditioning does not always make sense since it would only see use during the summer. However, if you are remodeling your home, there are techniques that reduces the need for air conditioning during those hot, humid summer days.

1. Windows

Replace old windows with new, more efficient ones. Dual pane, Low E glass windows keep summer heat out and cool air in. As an added plus, these windows also keep cold winter out of your home and warm air in during the cold seasons. They also provide UV protection for your interior to prevent sun damage and discoloration. Renewal offers high quality windows with energy efficiency, low maintenance, durability, lifetime warranties, and award winning performance.

2. Fans

While regular fans are an option, ceiling fans tend to be the best for consistent airflow throughout your rooms. They can also add to your décor and you will not have to worry about storing them during the cooler seasons of the year.

3. Natural Ventilation

If you do decide to install an air conditioning system, ductless split systems save energy by localizing temperature control in your home. You can control what rooms are cooled and to what degree. These work well for home additions, as alternatives to ducts.

Interested in reading more? Take our two sources, Hawaii Renovation and eHow.

For all of your remodeling needs, whether it is for your kitchen, bathroom, or an addition, contact Renewal Remodels & Additions online or at (253) 682-1990.