Quick Tips to Get Your Bathroom Ready for Holiday Entertaining
Chances are you'll be welcoming guests into your home during the winter holiday season that lasts from Thanksgiving to the New Year. As you think about sprucing up your home for holiday entertaining, don't forget about the bathroom. After all, it's a good bet that's one part of your home that just about every guest will visit.

Bring the Benefits of Natural Light into Your Home
When you think of skylights you may picture them as unattractive, inefficient, fading plastic bubbles that leak. If so, you're probably thinking, to paraphrase an old auto commercial, of "your father's skylights."

The Perfect Shower Every Time
Ahh, the shower. It can wake you up, soothe your senses or relax your body -- and it starts the minute you step into the water. But, do you prefer a powerful spray, a gentle rainshower or a pulsating massage? With so many options to choose from, today's showers do more than get you clean.

Turn Your Powder Room into a Showstopper
You spend hours setting the perfect table, scrubbing your hardwood floors and wiping the dust from your bookshelves, but what will your dinner guests notice the most? A welcoming and beautiful powder room.

Choosing Custom Cabinetry for the Kitchen of your Dreams
Kitchen cabinets are the most visible and used part of any kitchen. They represent your largest kitchen investment and are probably the most confusing of all the decisions you'll make for a new kitchen. So, before you take the leap, do your homework.

How to Create the Home of Your Dreams
Options, accessories, alterations, choices, selection -- call it whatever you want, how we live today is all about customization. Whether you are shopping for a pair of shoes, an automobile or even a home, you can have it made your way. The options we have in front of us are limited only by our imagination.

Trend in Garage Redesign Drives Thousands of Homeowners to 'America's Ultimate Garage' Contest
When John Crilly of Wheaton, Ill., entered "America's Ultimate Garage" contest in 2004, he had big dreams of winning an amazing garage makeover. Then it happened. He was chosen as the grand prize winner among the more than 10,000 entries submitted, and his "ultimate garage" makeover has just begun.

Outdoor Home Renovations Gaining in Popularity
The latest trend in home remodeling is to -- as they say in the business world -- "think outside the box." According to the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University, while kitchen and bathroom remodels remain the top two home improvement projects, more and more people are updating their exteriors as well.

Holiday Gift Ideas for the Handyperson
Is there someone on your holiday list who thrives on home improvement projects? Chances are, your favorite handyperson is always eager for a new tool.

Budget Baths with Beautiful Results
While you may envision your ideal bathroom with a sunken tub, steam shower and marble floors, many homeowners don't have the budget for these dream rooms. However, a modest budget doesn't mean you can't create a bathroom that is stylish, updated and enjoyable.