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Just because the walls don’t drip blood doesn’t mean your home isn’t haunted. While most home buyers inspect the foundation for cracks and the roof for leaks, few check for ghosts and spirits before purchasing a new home. If your home is haunted you’ll probably know, but just in case you’re not quick to pick up the signals of the...
Like an ex-boyfriend who returns to you after getting in shape and cleaning up his act, wood paneling is back and better than ever. Greener, more stylish and nothing like you remembered, this once maligned material looks fantastic. You know you couldn’t stay mad at it forever. It’s time to let wood paneling back into your life. Once a popular...
Ask anyone with a swimming pool and they’ll tell you it’s the best part of summer. However, even the most diehard swimmer eventually tires of swimming laps and playing games of Marco Polo. Add some new features to your summer pool parties with any of these 13 pool products and swimming accessories. Angry Life-Size Inflatable Shark Just when you thought...
When you received the keys to your new home, you probably weren’t aware of the expensive and environmentally-unfriendly problems the previous homeowner stuck you with. But before you can become the eco-exorcist that expels water waste and energy waste from your home, you’ll need to know what non-green things to look for. 1. The Lawn. Turns out that big swath...
Just days after NASA’s rover Curiosity beamed back images of Mars, we went and launched ourselves into the untapped, but lucrative interplanetary real estate market with our first listing on Mars! As if putting a home on an uninhabited planet 350-million miles away wasn’t enough, we still found time to open our ninth market—Central Florida! The timing of simultaneously opening a...
Over 300 years after Blackbeard the Pirate first visited the coast of North Carolina, Estately is launching its award-winning real estate search site in the Research Triangle. Instead of burying heaps of gold for future treasure seekers, Estately.com helps people buy their dream home in Chapel Hill, purchase a condo in a renovated cotton mill in Raleigh, or find the...