Home Maintenance
Remodeling & Decorating

Gardening
Organizing and Streamlining

Insurance Issues

ChoicePoint: Order a copy of your CLUE report.
How to Beat Plumbing Nightmares: Advice from Realty Times
Prevent water damage with TLC: Insurance Journal article
Dogs and insurance companies: AKC article comparing insurers
North Carolina floodmaps: (best with hi-speed service)
Check out your credit score: Commercial site with helpful tips on improving your score.

Home Maintenance

Improvenet: Products, ideas, plans, etc.
Hometips: Free advice for do-it-yourselfers
How Your House Works: A reference from Hometips
Energy Savers: Tips for saving energy costs
Toiletology 101: Everything you ever wanted to know about your toilet!!
All About the Home: More tips and message boards
DoItYourself.com: Guidance for lots of doityourself projects
HomeDoctor: Tips from message boards and weekly newsletter
PlumbNet: Plumbing solutions and helpful tips
Hometime: Lots of tips from popular TV series
Doityourself.com: Exhaustive site with lots of information and forums

Remodeling and Decorating

Remodeling Costs vs. Value: Statistics on costs & paybacks of various projects
The best remodeling calculators: Tile, wallboard, concrete, fencing, paint, carpet…
HGTV building and remodeling calculators: More calculators
Dream Kitchen Design Guide: Soup to nuts details on kitchen design.
Home Furnish: Tutorials on feng shui, selecting colors, and arranging furniture.
Home Portfolio: Thousands of home products.
No Brainer Blinds: Video tutorials, measuring and installation tips.

Gardening

Wildflowers and Plants of North Carolina (sorted by color and searchable)
Vegetable gardening in North Carolina (including sustainable agriculture)
Plant Encyclopedia: A searchable database of over 3000 plants!!
Garden-Com: Burpee's garden site
Water efficiency landscaping

Organizing and streamlining

State Farm Household Inventory: Free software download
Home and Family Organizer: Household notebook with printable forms
Declutter 101 including checklists and journals

 



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