While we typically focus on the more material aspects of home ownership here at hometechnics, we figured now would be a great time to cover a subject that 67% of Americans would find particularly useful – the health of our pets. Not only is pet ownership a way to increase your general happiness and quality […]
It appears that summer has truly arrived here in Southern California, with temperatures breaking 90 degrees for the first time in what has seemed like an endless 5-6 months of an unusually cold and dreary winter. Our characteristic cloudless blue skies have finally returned, and with them comes a happy, if unrelenting, sun! While we […]
Hello, my fellow home improvement lovers! Today we’re going to do something a little bit different and give you some straight FACTS about the world’s original homewrecker, every home owner’s worst nightmare – the termite! These little creepy crawlies come from the cockroach order Blattodea, meaning that they’re actually quite closely related to the cockroach. […]
With the recent craze in hardwood flooring and tiling your house, its easy to feel left out as someone who is stubbornly sticking to their carpets. Today is your day, however, as we’re doing a little spring cleaning advice today featuring tips on how you can revitalize your carpets with cheap, easy and effective services […]
A properly maintained lawn is one of the hallmarks of the idealized suburban American life – the typically American man spending his Sundays on his mower, can of beer in hand and working out the perfect angles to get that nice uniform striped look in his grass. Or, for an alternative cinematic look at the […]
I think we’ve all experienced it at least one of the following situations during our long and much suffering careers: A coworker who thinks the office is his house. He takes his shoes off, leaves his coffee cups on every available surface in every possible room, and he has loud personal phone calls or watches […]
When you’re first starting out a business, every single little cost can really add up on your fledgling ledger. While you’re dashing around trying to find new customers, every day the expenses pile up: new telephones, rent, payroll expended on training new employees; everything seems designed to sap away as much money from your new […]
A weird concept that we’ve been playing around with recently goes like this: what if you moved certain rooms in your house and made them completely outdoors? What would they look like, and how would you design them to best make use of the open space? It’s fun to think about, in a mind-bending way; […]
The idea of becoming an entrepreneur comes with a lot of misplaced glamour about what it is like to own your own business – setting your own hours, being your own boss, making way more money than you would as an employee – that usually reveals itself to be totally off-base almost immediately. Setting your […]
“Another potential tenant decided to go with a unit across the street, Mary Anne.” “Another one?! What is going on?!” Mary Anne groaned as she set the phone down and rubbed her eyes. The third prospect in as many weeks had passed up her Encinitas beachfront condo, preferring to stay in another unit in the […]