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12 Tips to Clean Up, De-Clutter and Revamp Your Home

Posted on January 6, 2013 | Leave a comment

Create an Outbox

Place a box in an out-of-the-way place, behind a door or in a corner, and start to fill it with the items you don’t need, don’t love or just aren’t sure about. Let it sit for a week so you become fully detached, and then you’ll know whether to toss it, donate it or give it away.

After all the clutter of the holidays — presents opened, guests and family departed — what’s a better way to start the new year than by clearing things out, getting everything back in order and making a few changes to freshen up your home. Away with 2012. It’s 2013!

Our friend Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan from Apartment Therapy gave us some great ideas how to organize and de-clutter, how to use color to develop your style and a few simple cleaning tips to keep everything fresh.

These are simple steps you can take today that will make a world of difference regardless of whether you live a tiny apartment or a great big house

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Apps for Homeowers who are Remodeling

Posted on January 4, 2013 | Leave a comment

Mobile technology has broadened our horizons in so many ways. Applications on smartphones and tablets even have become useful to homeowners who are remodeling or redecorating their homes. These handy apps, available through Apple’s iTunes Store or the Android’s Google Play, can help the design process, keep your project organized and do a lot of your work on the go.

Will your upgrades add value to your home? Contact the appraisers at www.scappraisals.com for your value questions.

Magic Plan

This incredible app measures your rooms and draws your floor plan by taking photos. The tutorial video helps you get started. Also check out the site’s details on using the floor plans for commercial use. Here’s how it works:

You take a photograph of the corners of a room. This allows the app to measure the walls and doors, identify the shape of the room and draw a floor plan.

For more than one room, you assemble them with your finger and the app will align the rooms, manage the wall thickness and door coherence.

Add photos, furniture and comments to customize your room. Then “publish” on the Web for an interactive floor plan. The app also can generate jpegs and pdfs.

Free for iOS. sensopia.com

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Buffett Firm Bets Big on Solar

Posted on January 3, 2013 | Leave a comment

Warren Buffet’s energy company has placed another big bet on solar power plants, spending up to $2.5 billion to buy two facilities under development by San Jose’s SunPower Corp.

A subsidiary of Buffett’s MidAmerican Energy Holdings Co. will own the 579-megawatt Antelope Valley Solar Projects, two power plants that will straddle the line between Kern and Los Angeles counties in the Mojave Desert. SunPower will manage the plants’ engineering and construction under a deal the companies reported Wednesday.

Construction is expected to begin in the next three months and wrap up in 2015, employing about 650 workers. Once complete, the plants will sell electricity to Southern California Edison under agreements already approved by California utility regulators.

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12 Tips to Clean Up, De-Clutter and Revamp Your Home

Apps for Homeowers who are Remodeling

Buffett Firm Bets Big on Solar

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