Designing a Model Home

    I am going to give you a blank check with a challenge. Build a new model home. At first, the excitement of the design savvy begins to tingle and warm our creative juices like that first taste of a rich Cabernet, and we start thinking and acting like a design diva. We want [...]

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Ten Easy Steps When Choosing Stucco Colors

Colors in generally are tricky. They look one way in the sample, another way on the wall, and they change according to the type of light, the amount of light and the colors of items surrounding them. The human eye can distinguish about 10 million different colors, so it is to not surprising that understanding [...]

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Street Smarts: Diversification

Putting all your eggs in one basket is definitely not smart. We hear the same modus operandi from most financial advisors: diversification allows to mitigate our investment risk in our personal portfolios. As a result, fluctuations of a single security will have less impact on our overall financial well being. This means: 1. Spread your [...]

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Laughter is still the best medicine

Most of the time, I delete forwarded messages without opening them. Especially if I get an abundance from the same person, 3 or 4 times daily. I have received this same forward perhaps over ten times over the past couple of years, and it never seizes to make me chuckle. Your HOME as seen by [...]

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Cold Enough?

Having grown up in Canada, I am used to the cold physically, although I can admit that after nine years living in the warm South, my tolerance has thinned out as I was tempted to bring out the heavy winter artillery of my fashionable hat, gloves and scarfs. Unfortunately, most of them remain in Canada [...]

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