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Dog Friendly Travel to Virginia City

September 17, 2024 Kartika

Not every town we travel to is dog friendly, let alone dogs welcoming but Virginia City Nevada loves dogs and invites you to bring them when you visit. After all, the dogs were around during Virginia City’s heyday. It just makes sense they are now too!

From dog friendly places to stay to dog friendly attractions, we’ve got all the info you need to plan your visit to Virginia City with your best furry friend!

Where to stay with your Dog in Virginia City

Virginia City has a couple of great dog friendly choices of where to stay during your visit. This is great and makes planning easy depending on what type of accommodations you’re looking for.

The Sugarloaf

12 cozy motel rooms and a market on site! This family owned and operated establishment boasts “Come in as a stranger, leave as a friend!” and we have to say, they

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Take a Walking Tour of Historic Genoa Nevada

July 22, 2024 Kartika

House Renovation

Spend a perfect day and take a walking tour and discover historic Genoa Nevada. Park your car (anywhere is a good spot really) and start your visit at the park with the reconstructed 1851 trading post. You can’t miss it…it’s smack dab in the middle of beautiful peaceful historic Genoa.

A Brief History of Genoa Nevada

Genoa is the site of the first non-native permanent settlement in Nevada. Starting as a trading post in 1850 along the California Trail, Genoa provided supplies to travelers before crossing the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Often cited as beginning in 1851, that is because that is when the second and ‘permanent’ trading post was built. That one grew to include a blacksmith shop, livery, flour and saw mills… and voila.. a town was born!

Genoa has another claim to fame as it was a stop for the pony express. Each year that is honored and

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Cast, Filming Locations, News, and More

July 21, 2023 Kartika

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Hack My Home is the latest home renovation show to hit the small screen. Whether you’ve viewed all eight episodes of the first season on Netflix or you’re still considering whether it’s worth a watch, we’ve laid out all of the answers to your burning questions. From details about the cast to who pays for the renovations, here’s everything you need to know about the show.

What Is Hack My Home About?

in short, Hack My Home is all about maximizing functionality within a house’s footprint. It follows a team of experts as they renovate homes for families who need more space but aren’t ready to leave their current abode or don’t know how to upgrade it on their

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Ballman Khapalova renovates a “frugal and functional” New York house

July 13, 2023 Kartika

House Renovation

Architecture studio Ballman Khapalova has renovated a 1980s ranch house in Saugerties, New York, to make it a contemporary home with maximized views of the surrounding landscape.

Ballman Khapalova extended Pine Lane House by 300 square feet and added a steel standing seam roof, external wood cladding and an outdoor deck.

Wood-clad ranch house in New York with steps leading to a deck — Pine Lane House has an outdoor deck with a hot tub

“Since the original house typology is extremely economical, we wanted the renovation to be equally frugal and functional while also bringing an added layer of value, beauty and comfort that was not there originally,” studio founders Dasha Khapalova and Peter Ballman told Dezeen.

Khapalova and Ballman explained that the design aim was to “take a standard, conventional ranch house and transform it into something fresh and contemporary, specifically made for a young family and their needs”.

Open-plan kitchen and dining room with wood flooring and wood kitchen units — Ballman Khapalova aimed to maximize views of the landscape

The studio maintained

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Family of architect who died in plane crash gets home renovation

July 10, 2023 Kartika

House Renovation

Ann Christensen and Reagan Miller always knew there were things they’d change in their modest North Edgemont bungalow. As their three boys got older, the spaces felt more cramped, the shady front yard never quite allowed grass to grow, and their kitchen was dark and far from functional.

Miller, a partner at the Reagan & Andre architecture firm, spent his time designing grand homes for clients, and Christensen was busy, too, in her job as an English professor — and eventually the department chair — at the University of Houston. Another factor was that the frugal native Midwesterners just didn’t want to spend the money for a massive makeover.

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Today, though, Christensen walks through her home, noting how good it feels to have created a new foyer, realigned what were “jiggedy-jaggedy” doorways, reworked the kitchen and replaced

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HGTV is making our homes boring and us sad, one study says

July 9, 2023 Kartika

House Renovation

A pair of professors found that home renovation media leads homeowners to decorate for the masses, not for their own happiness

July 7, 2023 at 7:00 am EDT

A large HGTV camera points at a woman who is covering a vibrant living room with beige paint. — (Masha Krasnova-Shabaeva for The Washington Post)

If you’ve ever watched a home makeover show on HGTV, you know the key “before” sequence. It’s when the camera critically pans over the house and the host points out everything that needs to be fixed. The décor? Cluttered. The paint? cringe. The overall takeaway is that the home is an utter embarrassment and needs a total overhaul before anyone of taste would consider putting a doormat out front.

But what happens when people consider how their own homes might fare under this kind of scrutiny? It can lead to an overwhelming sameness in aesthetics, according to Annetta Grant, an assistant professor of markets, innovation and design at Bucknell University, who

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Here’s How Much Money You’ll Save Using Costco’s Home Renovation Service

June 28, 2023 Kartika

House Renovation

Maybe you’ve decided it’s time to install a new carpet in your home, especially after years of pets and toddlers have taken a toll on your floors. If you choose Costco to help you complete this project, they will contract with a selection of third parties, such as Shaw Flooring, to send a representative to measure your space. This initial step is the first way that Costco will save you money on your project. The flooring representative will provide a professional in-home consultation for free, completing a professional measurement as well as providing a number of flooring samples to consider in your home.

Many home improvement stores will charge a non-refundable fee for this same type of service. The deposit can later be applied to the cost of the flooring installation, but if you decide to choose a different provider, that fee will not be reimbursed. These other stores also

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How To Predict Costs for Your Annual Home Renovations

June 24, 2023 Kartika

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It’s no secret that home renovations involve a lot of time — and a lot of money. Whether you’re dreaming of a new kitchen or want to remodel your bathroom, experts agree you will need to conduct thorough research on the extent of the project and the cost, as it will probably take a good chunk of money out of your savings.

Indeed, homeowners are spending a lot on home maintenance. A new GOBankingRates survey found that almost 20% of respondents spent more than $7,000 last year on home renovations, with 12% spending $7,001 to $10,000 and 8% spending more than $10,000.

“That’s not the answer most people want to hear, but you have to really do a comprehensive and realistic research, including not just the cost to do the work and the materials but also any permits, inspections and other administrative costs that can get very pricey, ”

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Home Renovating While Black: The Very Real Costs That Nobody Tells You About

June 20, 2023 Kartika

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About six weeks after she moved into her Dutch Colonial in Beekman, New York, Alyse Archer-Coité’s excitement shifted to hesitation. Her anxiety peaked when she started reaching out to contractors to start home renovating discussions. “I felt like they would come to the house with an expectation, and then I would open the door,” she recalls. Archer-Coité didn’t want word to get out that the ivy-covered brick home on the hill of a predominantly white and middle class neighborhood was owned and occupied by a single Black woman—she would often wait for cars to pass before getting the mail. “I had a fear that I was going to end up with a burning cross in my yard.”

Fifty-five years after passing the 1968 Fair Housing Act—a law preventing discriminatory practices around renting, buying, selling, or financing a home in the face of redlining—racism continues to pervade the house buying experience.

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How much does it cost to renovate a house? Save, Pay, Profit

June 14, 2023 Kartika

House Renovation

The past few years have changed the way Americans dealt with their homes and real estate, in general. Shelter-in-place orders spiked a renewed interest in home renovations to accommodate a new family dynamic of remote work and homeschooling.

Then, a sudden spike in home prices and interest rates caused many would-be homebuyers to reexamine their plans to purchase a home. For many, the best option became home renovation instead.

As this trend continues, it’s very possible that you might be in the same boat—planning to renovate your home. This will naturally bring you to the next phase in your research, which determines the cost to do so.

If you’d like to get a sense of what it costs to renovate a home in 2023, we’ll break down the average costs for different projects and return on investment (ROI) to help you determine if a home improvement project makes sense to

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