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- Crystal Chandelier Collectibles -> Lamps, Lighting -> Ceiling Fixtures The crystal chandelier got its start in the 1600s in England, when the use of lead glass became common and even popular. Originally used in medieval abbeys and churches to light up the cavernous rooms, the chandelier started out as a wooden cross...
My First Real Life Green Energy Project: Switching Home Lighting to CFL Bulbs. I've finally decided to exchange all of my standard light bulbs for Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs. I realize I'm a few years late in joining the Going Green energy movement, but after spending the last two weeks reading about everyone's retirement accounts being in the crapper (Moolanomy and No...
How I Sold My House In a Down Market. WE SOLD OUR HOME! Words cannot express the joy and relief my wife and I feel. We were certain we would sell our home in time (by following the points laid out in this post), but we were getting very tired of the disruption to our life from numerous...- Antique Lighting Antiques -> Decorative Arts -> Lamps Whether you are trying to restore an older home and would like to keep it in the period style, or you just appreciate older light fixtures, antique lighting has much to offer. There are many different styles from Victorian, to Art Deco to Modern...
Frugal Home Dec Tip: Electrical Outlet or Light Switch Frame Here is simple home decoration project to spruce up your walls or sides of cabinets that have an electrical outlet or light switch plate. This electrical outlet pictured to the right is in a conspicuous place in our house and I found the yellowish white plastic color rather offensive,...- Friday's Quizzlet and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Appetizer: When was the last time you visited a hospital? I have been to my Grandmother's nursing home many times over the summer which is quite like a hospital. In the last 12 months I've also broken and split my nose (December) and sliced my eyeball (June) so I'm no...
How to Build Antler Chandeliers Making a deer antler chandelier is not a difficult task. Most people assume that furniture constructed from deer antlers is unethical, because they assume that the antler has to be forcefully removed from the dear. The truth is, with the exception of one species of deer, all male deer grow...- Basic Home Repair: Home Improvement DVD The Basic Home Repair: Home Improvement DVD is designed to provide complete details and lessons on home repair topics including energy conservation, home security, replacing a faucet, sweating copper pipes, replacing toilets, unclogging drain clogs, replacing the caulk on a tub, replacing lighting fixtures, repairing broken lamps, replacing tiles that...
How to Design an Exterior Lighting Plan When it comes to focusing on curb appeal, many homeowners get caught up with plantings and fixtures, but fail to find ways to highlight all of their hard work. Whenever you add something new to the outside of your home, you're going to want to show it off! Simple...- Review: Basic Home Repair: Home Improvement DVD The Basic Home Repair: Home Improvement DVD is designed to provide complete details and lessons on home repair topics including energy conservation, home security, replacing a faucet, sweating copper pipes, replacing toilets, unclogging drain clogs, replacing the caulk on a tub, replacing lighting fixtures, repairing broken lamps, replacing tiles that...
Seven Steps To A Successful Professional Home Energy Audit With President Obama announcing thousands of dollars in tax credits for families to increase energy efficiency in their homes, there has never been a better time to perform a home energy audit. Conducting an audit could result you in energy savings equaling hundreds or even thousands of dollars over the...
How To Pick the Best Compact Fluorescent Light Bulb There's something about compact fluorescent (or CFL) bulbs and the light they put out. The light looks different from what we're used to with energy-wasting incandescent bulbs. Why is that? And is there a CFL that comes close to the light quality of incandescents? There are two ways to...
Save Money And Energy With Energy Efficient Window Choices Our homes use a lot of energy, mostly from nonrenewable resources, when it comes to heating and cooling. Home heat and air conditioning are some of the biggest contributors to carbon emissions responsible for global warming and climate change. As we fight carbon emissions, it's imperative that we do everything...- 5 painless ways to save more than $150 a month 1. Cancel insurance on your cell phone. With the deductible, the limited coverage, and the low cost of cell phones, it's probably not worth it. You'll save $3-$5 per month, depending on your plan. 2. If you have a land line and want to keep it, cancel your long distance...
- The Fish Tank Hood - Keep It Cool There are many aspects in the aquarium which generate heat. There are pumps, heaters and of course the lighting. The choice of lighting normally determines if you will actually use a hood or not. If you choose to use fluorescent tubes then quite likely you will implement a hood or...
101 ways to reduce your spending and keep more of your money Here are 101 areas where it's easy to make cuts that will allow you to keep more of your money. Since this article is long, it's broken it down into sections. Browse through the whole thing, or use the links below to jump to the sections that interest you most....
Rise of the LED Light Bulb While an LED light bulb such as the Evolux incandescent replacement is initially expensive, it is far less so than using incandescent bulbs over the medium to long term. They even beat CFL bulbs. This article shows you the math.
Save Energy And Money With A Home Energy Audit Ever hear of death by a thousand cuts? That's what's probably happening to your wallet without you realizing it. Day after day, you are being silently slashed from many different places in your house, wasting energy that oozes out of your house from little cracks and holes. Some of...- How Much Money Can You Save With A Home Energy Audit? After my last article on having a successful professional home energy audit, a reader sent me an e-mail wanting more details about what kind of money he could expect to save if he paid for an audit. Would it really be worth spending a few hundred dollars for it? It's...
- Can Natural Aquarium Lighting Work? The wild coral reefs sit under the sun and do well. Everything is correct - spectrum, intensity, photoperiod and the dawn/dusk sequence. Could the aquarist make use of Nature’s original? For aquariums that contain corals the importance of aquarium lighting runs a close second to seawater quality, so it would...
- Three Money Mistakes Liz Pulliam Weston speaks on MSN.com about the 3 worst money moves you can make. Borrowing from your 401(k), paying off credit card debt with a HELOC, and stretching to buy a house make her list. You can check out the article here. Her advice about the paying off your...
Working out of complaints How it began Perhaps you've heard of the church that gave out rubber bracelets with the words No complaint. The idea was to wear the bracelet on one wrist, moving it to the other when you caught yourself complaining, with the hope of going 21 days without complaints. I'm not...- Forget discount sites. Go to the source! This article on MSN.com is great: Best deal? Go to the source I was impressed with this article. Chock full of ideas, some of which you may know. I didn't know a bunch of them. Some ones that caught my eye: Airline tickets can be cheaper at the airlines' websites...
FOTD NYX Chanel Benefit Too Faced This is the 4th NYX trio from my amazingly cheap NYX haul. It's very late here, and after a busy day, I'm just now able to post my FOTD, though the pix were taken this morning. TS 26 Velvet blue, ocean frost, space Medium blue, white/blue, grayed blue These blues...
Interesting Gadgetry Gifts for Men Gadgets are undoubtedly the most appealing gifts for men because of their diverse capabilities and functions. The coolest thing about them is that there are types for every possible interest—computers, music, outdoors, travel, automotive, arts, garden, home maintenance, etc. There is surely a gadget for every type of man....
A Modern Phenomena: Dating Services for Married People The Internet really does have everything to offer from research to shopping, business opportunities, and much more. It is no wonder that with all the advancements the Internet has made in our lives that it has grown in popularity the way it has. You can even take advantage of dating...- Ballena Isle Marina Ballena Isle Marina is located in Alameda, CA Phone: 510.523.5528 View Larger Map Website: http://www.ballenaisle.com/ Available Slips: 515 Current Pricing: 22' - $170 per month. Rates go as high as $902 for 70' vessels. Please visit their website for more complete pricing information. What You Need to Know About Pricing:...
- How To Clean A Fish Tank When the aquarium is clean it can look amazing to the eye - both for yourself and for anyone who see's it. The trouble is they don't keep themselves clean do they. Fish, like humans produce waste. This waste along with the aspects which we introduce into the aquarium (uneaten food etc) all helps to increase the pollution in the water.
- Weekend Round-up: Jekyll and Hyde Edition - Part 1: Hyde I'm doing something a little different this week and splitting the links up in half. There will be some today and more tomorrow. The split of links themselves is random and not related to the Jekyll and Hype situation I'm going to discuss. I've mentioned more than a few times...
- Preparing to Refinance When I purchased my new home about a year ago, I went with the builder's preferred lender because of the lower closing costs with the incentives. Because I also hadn't yet sold my prior home and really had no cash to put down, I did 100% financing with an 80/20...
