I don’t yet have one of those super-duper big screen HD TVs for my house yet mostly because I don’t yet have a place to really put it. Right now I just have a 20 year old particleboard entertainment center along a large empty wall in my living room. I’m thinking about designing some built-in cabinets for that area, but I like the idea of “hiding” my HD TV when it isn’t in use so my living room can be both a formal room with no TV and an informal room when I have the TV on. …

The CFL Bulb: Environmental Savior or Toxic Mercury Poison device?You can’t walk into any store selling any sort of home goods these days that isn’t agressively marketing Compact Flourescent Lights (CFLs). By now most people know that CFLs use much less energy than regular incandescent bulbs and give out the equivalent amount of light. And the bulbs are getting more convenient and easier to use everyday with better designs and taking up less space. But no matter how well designed …

The Home Depot as introduced a new program called “Eco Options” which attempts to identify environmentally products throughout its store. These products will clearly be labeled as part of the Eco Option program and will have less of an environmental impact than similar home improvement products beside them.

The Home Depot introduces its new Eco Options Evironmentally Friendly Products programAccording to Home Depot:

Products with the Eco Options label are either eco friendly by definition, such as …

The Cave Bookcase is just one of the many daily home imrpovement ideas you can find on home improvement idea blogs.One of the most exciting aspects of owning a house that’s…umm… “less than perfect” is imagining all the cool things you could do with your house if you had the time and money. It’s really a blank canvas and the possibilities themselves make it exciting.

That’s why I often find myself surfing over to the Home …