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What a winter. As we sit here right now, at the end of April, the weather today was perfect. The sun was out the whole day, and the high temperature was a little over 70. The whole neighborhood was mowing their lawn, walking their dogs, or forcing their children to get outside and play. Don't you love the sounds of Spring? A kid running over their mom's foot in the Power Wheels car. Nothing better. If you're in WNY like we are, or really anywhere across the WNY/FLX/CNY area o

After taking some time off from writing to get through the holidays, and then also unintentionally taking off January because of all the awful viruses that were floating around, we're back with our weekly blog! To start the year, we want to get ahead of the busy time for home listing, selling, and buying. We know, we can hear you. "Home buying?" you say. "Don't you fix things in people's houses?" Ah, we sure do, but what if you're only fixing things because you are trying to

If you are a homeowner or renter, you have probably realized that you need to keep a couple of things on-hand to have ready when something in your [home, apartment, condo] breaks. Not so long ago, I was a renter who had no intention of ever owning a home, but my dad decided that I should still have some tools of my own. That thought has inspired today's post - what should you have ready to use, plus additional tips that have helped us (now homeowners) maintain our home. Toolb

It's December, so everyone has a "best of" list floating around for the end of the year. In fact, my Spotify Wrapped has already appeared! We couldn't possibly pick our favorite project or customer this year, but here are a couple of things that deserve our recognition as we round out 2025: March 2025 - switch the "Open" sign to "on" because we are officially in business! Although Marc and Tony had been working on projects together for a while, they decided to make the most o

It's that time of year again! I'm not talking about the cold and snow, but only because I've talked about that before. If you want to read about my vendetta against rock salt, you can find it in this blog post . If you want to talk about preparing for the cold weather and snow, that's this post . No, today we're talking about what seems to happen whenever men remember that company is coming over. In fact, It's a whole category of videos on TikTok. I've taken a couple of scree

Thanks for coming back to us, everyone! We took an unexpected break from the blog, but considering people had plenty of things to do with Halloween, I'm sure the time flew by. Something I can't stop thinking about this week is deciding what to do when you're finally ready to make changes to your house, apartment, office space, or whatever. We have talked about prioritizing renovations around necessity and budget (you can find that post here ), but what about that thing that y

Regardless of whether you rent or own your home or apartment, if you live in WNY, you have probably asked yourself "what were they thinking?!" when moving, renovating, or redecorating. I can attest to that in basically every place I've lived, with the only exception being a new-ish apartment building, there have been design choices I don't understand. The most recent example is the house we live in now, where I removed a door on the first day we moved in because I hated it. T

It's hard to ignore the signs of Fall all around us. The changing leaves and shorter days are hard to miss, and in Western New York, the...

If you've ever had the luxury of being allowed to paint a space you live or work in, then you know that decision paralysis can be a real...

Sorry, all, I’ve got some dirty words to share with you. Cold. Snow. Winter. I know, the language is tough to take in, but we...

I feel like we’re stating the obvious here when we say prices have continued to go up, and it can put a strain on any normal family,...

We get it! It’s back to school season, and suddenly you’ve got cleats spread across your entryway, binders all over your dining room...