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Add Value To Your Home With Basement Finishing Ideas

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Adding Light Below The Grade With Basement Window Wells
Just because a window is in the basement does not mean a person cannot look out through it, or that light should not come in the window. Unfortunately, many metal basement window wells get rusty and dirty...

Create Usable Dry Living Spaces With Basement Wall Systems
One of the most wasted spaces in a home is the basement and growing families can take advantage of that space when needed. However, many times the basement shows signs of leaks and may even pool water...

Marble Bathrooms - Beauty And Elegance
The beauty and elegance of marble has long been a favorite with homeowners. Marble bathrooms have an ornate and opulent feel that is a wise home addition because it can greatly increase the value of your...

Home Renovations - Time To Get Creative
Your home is your castle, and all home owners tackle various projects to increase the value of their house or to make life between four walls more comfortable and appealing. A cursory walk through the...

Affordable Bathroom Remodeling Tips - Budget Luxury Bathrooms
If your master bath is your only escape from a hectic life, then treat yourself to a delicious space that top notch spas would envy. Many items that used to be found only in luxury bathrooms have come...

Designing A Luxurious Guest Bath
If you plan to remodel a bathroom for your guests to use during visits, then don't worry about investing a lot of time and money into the "project bathroom." With some careful planning, you can create...

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Last but not least, you may want to consider giving your kitchen a face lift. There are plenty of great projects designed to convert a plain, outdated kitchen into a warm, inviting centerpiece. Tiling the floor, increasing counter or cupboard space, upgrading appliances, and extending or removing walls are all alterations that can completely transform the entire flow of the house.

Audiobook Review: The Sky's The Limit

Author Steven Gaines takes us from New York's most expensive condominiums and co-ops to the offices of its most powerful real estate brokers to reveal the outlandish displays of ego, bad behavior, and status hunger that come into play when the best addresses in the city are on the line.

With his signature elan, Gaines weaves a gossipy tapestry of brokers, buyers, co-op boards, and eccentric landlords and tells of the apartment hunting and renovating adventures of many celebrities - from Tommy Hilfiger to Donna Karan, from Jerry Seinfeld to Steven Spielberg, from Barbra Streisand to Madonna.

Here, too, is a fascinating chronicle of the changes in Manhattan's residential skyline, from the slums of the nineteenth century to the advent of the luxury building. Gaines describes how living in boxes stacked on boxes came to be seen as the ultimate in status, and how the co-operative apartment, originally conceived as a form of housing for the poor, came to be used as a legal means of blackballing undesirable neighbors.

A social history told through brick and mortar, The Sky's the Limit is the ultimate look inside one of the most exclusive and expensive enclaves in the world, and at the lengths to which people will go to get in.

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