April 22, 2016
New Home Construction Trends to Watch Out For
Posted in Living by Tiana Baur
Earlier this week, at the Windermere Builder Solutions Breakfast, more than 100 Windermere brokers came together to listen to Windermere President OB Jacobi lead a panel discussion on new home construction trends in the greater Seattle area.
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April 06, 2016
8 DIY Fire Pits to Get Your Yard Ready for Summer
Posted in Porch.com and Living by Porch.com
If you’re thinking about the changing seasons, think about making your own fire pit. This popular backyard feature is surprisingly easy to construct, and will bring your outdoor living to the next level. Make a quick trip to the hardware store, grab the kids to help out, and you can have one of these gorgeous backyard features by this weekend!
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March 24, 2016
Keeping Up with the Joneses: Seven Phases of Home Renovation
Posted in Living by Tyler Davis Jones
We haven’t blogged in a while . . . and that’s because we’ve put a slightly unintentional pause on our renovation projects. If you’ve ever done a project around the house, you may have found yourselves in one of these seven stages.
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March 16, 2016
Keeping up with the Joneses: Giving Our Fireplace a Facelift
Posted in Living by Tyler Davis Jones
While we were willing to do some major updates to the bathroom, plumbing and electrical, we decided to pick a few areas of our 1940s fixer to do some smaller, mostly cosmetic updates. One of these projects included giving the fireplace a little facelift to bring it into this century.
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March 09, 2016
Keeping up with the Joneses: The Guest Room, Part I
Posted in Living by Tyler Davis Jones
Before we started our renovations, we didn't plan to do much to the basement guest room: maybe a little paint, installing some blinds for the window. My wife, Jenn, thought we'd buy a bench to put at the end of the bed for linen storage. Then Demo Day One happened. Within an hour, it was clear we would be a few weeks out from painting. In order to paint, you needed walls.
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March 02, 2016
Keeping up with the Joneses: Would You do a DIY Home Renovation again?
Posted in Living by Tyler Davis Jones
See what Windermere Real Estate agent, Tyler Davis Jones and his wife Jenn have to say about their do-it-yourself home renovation on the blog today:
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February 25, 2016
Keeping up with the Joneses: The Harsh Realities of Renovation
Posted in Living by Tyler Davis Jones
Follow along with Tyler & Jenn Jones as they work through their do-it-yourself home remodel. This week the Joneses are sharing an update on their progress and some highs and lows of buying a 1940's fixer.
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February 22, 2016
The Tax Benefits Every Homeowner Should Know About
Posted in Living by Chad Basinger
Tax breaks are available for any type of home — single-family residence, town house, mobile home, or condominium. However, to take full tax advantage of owning a home, property owners need to understand the expenses they can deduct, and learn some tips to get the most tax advantages out of home ownership.
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February 18, 2016
6 Ways to Incorporate the Color of the Year in Your Home
Posted in Living by Tiana Baur
The Pantone Color of the Year was announced a couple of months ago and we can’t express how awesome these colors are apart, let alone together. For the first time Pantone introduces two shades as the Color of the Year 2016: Rose Quartz and Serenity are a fusion of warm and cool; promoting not only a non-traditional color match, but also gender equality. Here are six different ways to integrate...
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February 17, 2016
Keeping up with the Joneses: How Much Does it Cost to Update a Bathroom? (Part 2)
Posted in Living by Tyler Davis Jones
Remember that cutesy little budget we posted late last week? There are a few things we naïvely left off that list… and I’d try to list them all but that would require getting up off the couch and digging out the 1,634 receipts from Home Depot that are currently floating around my diaper bag (along with an old banana and a jar of spackle. I'm not kidding.)
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