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10May2012
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Tip #10: Prepare your Home for Spring Landscaping

10.) Contrast with your exterior home: Your landscaping should be an enhancement of your exterior home. Choose plants that compliment or contrast the colors in your home as well as the architectural time period of your home. A modern and + More

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07May2012
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Tip #9: Prepare your Home for Spring Landscaping

9.) Low and high maintenance plants: The beauty of landscaping and gardening is there are plants for every lifestyle, as well as every taste! If your home has a rustic or desert aesthetic, ornamental grasses that grow wild may be + More

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03May2012
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Tip #8: Prepare your Home for Spring Landscaping

8.) Plan for maintenance: Unlike a paint color in your home, once it’s up you’re done, landscaping requires maintenance and care. From pulling weeds, watering and pruning, to occasional replacement of dead plants, etc… Once again, plan what plants will + More

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26Apr2012
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Tip #6: Prepare your Home for Spring Landscaping

6.) Get inspired: For some, inspiration comes from looking at neighboring yards, or traveling to other areas of your town to look at landscaping. While others seek inspiration from home and garden publications and satellite television do-it-yourself programs.  Often times + More

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23Apr2012
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Tip #5: Prepare your Home for Spring Landscaping

4.) Plant landscaping at the suggested time of year: While you may be excited to plant your fruit trees and flowering shrubs, many plants will thrive better for years to come if you plant them at the suggested times of + More

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16Apr2012
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Tip #3: Prepare your Home for Spring Landscaping

3.) Know what local ‘pests’ are in your neighborhood: While you may think that all of you have to plan for is sun and water for your landscaping, think again – pests such as wildlife, insects, and stray animals can + More

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12Apr2012
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Tip #2: Prepare your Home for Spring Landscaping

2.) Do your research beforehand: Similarly to a do it yourself project, plan out your strategy for your landscaping in advance. Are you going to break it up in phases, or are you going to hire a landscape professional to + More

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09Apr2012
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Tip #1: Prepare your Home for Spring Landscaping

Once the first official frost is no longer a threat, don’t you just want to run out into your yard and start spring landscaping?   All winter long the excuse of it being too cold, or everything is covered with snow + More

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04Apr2012
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10 Spring Cleaning Tips

Revitalize your hibernating home with simple suggestions. 1 Work from the top down, inside to outside, to avoid getting what you just cleaned dirty again. 2 Do one room, even one area of one room, at a time to avoid + More

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25Mar2012
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Home Staging Tip #30: A master bedroom should appeal to both sexes.

Tip #5: A master bedroom should appeal to both sexes. When you are selling, your master bedroom should appeal to buyers of both sexes. Get rid of features that seem too gender-specific. Paint the walls a neutral color, and choose + More

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