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Spring Home Staging Tricks That Work
Selling your home is often a challenge and trying to set the scene for what homebuyers want can feel like a guessing game. While it seems like you have no idea, the reality is all homebuyers are...
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How To Choose A Safe DIY Home Project
Doing your own home projects is a great idea. It helps you save money, get a custom look to your home and it gives you a sense of pride. The only problem with DIY projects is that they all have a level...
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How to Budget and Afford your First Home
Your first home can be a dream come true! No more worrying about rent, dealing with landlords or being concerned with throwing away money each month. Budgeting for your first home can be a challenge if...
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Consider These Tips Before Selling Your Home By Owner
Spring is the perfect time to consider putting your home on the market and with home prices starting to come back up from the housing crisis; you may be considering selling your home yourself. While...
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Saving Energy with Green Home Renovation Ideas
Every year homeowners spend thousands of dollars on renovating their home, but often forget that many renovations can put money back in their pocket while saving the Earth’s resources. While many...
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How to Light your Outdoor Home for Spring Entertaining
Lighting your outdoor home when entertaining can often be a challenge. Determining where your dining guests will sit as opposed to lounging areas can often cause under or over lit areas in your...
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Ebertfest 2013 lineup brings Jack Black, ‘Bernie’ to Champaign
PRESS RELEASE: CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Terrence Malick’s 1978 film “Days of Heaven” won an Oscar for best cinematography, and Roger Ebert likely found that no surprise. It is “above all one of the most...
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Join us in Supporting the 2013 Crappie Fishing Tournament
The Hamilton County Crappie Association is now acceding donations for the 2013 Crappie Tournament, Saturday, May 4th at the McLeansboro Reservior. Rodney Campbell and the Hamilton County Crappie...
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How to Prepare your Home for a Last Minute Showing
A Realtor just called your home and said an interested potential buyer would love to come look at your home after work, and you just remembered that dirty dishes are left in your sink! If you are...
View Article6 Ways to Maximize the WCIA 3 Home & Garden Show
WCIA 3 Home & Garden Show is set on the 6th and 7th of April, 2013 at the Assembly Hall, University of Illinois. There are more than a hundred exhibitors this year, making this one of the best home...
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How to Choose the Ideal Neighborhood to Live In
When searching for a home most homebuyers are concerned with the physical home, but often lose sight of the location and neighborhood their new home will be located in. We’ve all heard the term...
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DIY Weekend Project: Choosing The Perfect Landscaping Plants
One of the great benefits of the changing of the seasons from winter to spring are all of the beautiful plants and color varieties there are for landscaping. Your outdoor home is ready to be on center...
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Renovation Project: Klassy Kuts Salon in McLeansboro, IL
Maybe you have been noticing the changes in The Square. Here is an update on one of our 2012 Renovation Projects Klassy Kuts Owner Melissa Benbrook… “I became friends with Josh over a year ago. He...
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The Top 3 Kitchen Design Trends for 2013
Whether you are looking to remodel your kitchen, or you are thinking about simple do it yourself projects to revamp your kitchen – looking at design trends will help. In 2013 kitchen designers are...
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Simple Ways to Freshen Up your Backyard Curb Appeal
When is the last time you spent as much time perfecting your backyard curb appeal as your front yard? For many homeowners forget that their sanctuary “backyard” needs just as much tender loving care...
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Simple Tips to Prepare your Home & Family for a Move
Moving homes, neighborhoods, and often-familiar surroundings can be a change for children and adults alike. If you are trying to prepare your home and family for a upcoming move, it will help to get a...
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Top 5 Tools Every Homeowner & DIY’er Must Have!
Once the spring time hits it’s officially time to think about home renovating and how to beautify your exterior/interior home. Before you choose your project and run out to buy supplies, do you know...
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3 Essential Tips to Consider While Attending an Open House
Springtime is the perfect time for buying and selling your home. The weather has turned nicer and after the wintertime the housing market has great competition if you are looking for a home. A great...
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Save Money on your Bathroom Remodeling Project
If your bathroom is in need of a makeover but you don’t know where you’ll find the budget, you probably need some creative ways to stretch your wallet. Bathroom remodels come after kitchen remodels in...
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Choosing the Perfect Exterior House Colors
Deciding on the best colors for your exterior home can be a challenge. Whether you are trying to choose the best colors based on your neighbors and the surrounding theme, or you want your own color...
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