How To Make Your Home Look 10 Times Better in 10 Minutes Or Less

They’re all simple things – tiny tweaks to get a home camera-ready – and they’re all things that you can do in ten minutes or less to make your home perfect for the most important of audiences: you. (apartmenttherapy.com)

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The 9 Super Useful Tools Every DIYer Needs

Those spare Allen wrenches and $1 tape measure from Ikea aren’t going to cut it if you’re making real home improvements. Here are the nine essential tools you need to start hammering out great projects… (houselogic.com)

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11 Adorable Tiny Kitchens

When it comes to these ultrafunctional compact spaces, the saying rings true: Good things come in small packages. Here’s the proof.

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Who pays the closing costs?

Sometimes it’s unclear as to who pays for what in a real estate closing. This chart gives you 31 potential costs and outlines who is supposed to pay in conventional, FHA, VA and cash situations. (www.househunt.com)

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These May or May Not Be the Best Cities for First-Time Homebuyers

Mortgage marketplace Lending Tree recently ranked its best cities for first-time homebuyers, and the results are, well… let’s just say it’s great news if you’d like to live in Little Rock, Ark., which Lending Tree found to be the most hospitable U.S. city to first-time home buyers. (apartmenttherapy.com)

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Exposed Beams Will Completely Transform Your Ceiling-in an Afternoon

We’re talking a whole project that takes less than five hours and costs no more than you’d spend on a couple dinners out (AD)

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How to Prepare Your Finances for Home Ownership

Preparing your finances for home ownership begins the day someone decides they actually want to buy a home. After all, saving for a down payment doesn’t just happen overnight! (houselogic.com)

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10 Guest Room Essentials and Tips + Free Printable

Summer is coming which means that the frequency of house guests will probably increase. Here are some thoughtful ideas to make your guest room more welcoming.

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Keep Your Cool – Here’s What Really Happens at Closings

After all of the components of the home buying process – negotiations, appraisals, inspections, and insurance – it’s very exciting to (finally) get to closing. But do you know what really happens during this final appointment? (houselogic.com)

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5 Outrageous Stories of Real-Life ‘Up’ Houses

HouseLogic.com presents the stories of five home owners from around the globe who, like old Carl Fredricksen in the Disney-Pixar movie “Up”, just would move out and move on.

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