What to Ask Yourself When Fixing Your Curb Appeal
Your home’s front façade is the first and last image that your guest is going to see. This is why maintaining a design-friendly and unique appearance is crucial when it comes to home design. Curb appeal is obviously important for selling a home but it’s also great to make your home look clean and welcoming. Front Doors Front doors, or entry doors, are your gateway into your beautiful home. The moment your guest walks up to your door to knock on your door, they can be met with either a faded, wooden block of a door, or a glossy, visually-appealing door. Depending on the style that you want your house to look like, you can adapt by pursuing doors that have a certain type of material or even a distinct feature to make it stand out in your neighborhood. Double...
Installing a New Front Door Without The Hassle
Written by: ETO Doors When you purchase some brand new front entry doors, you’re going to be left with how it’s going to be installed. You can call in a professional to do it or you can bring out the handiness in you and do it yourself. Each route has its own advantages and disadvantages. Choosing a Professional The advantages of choosing a professional to take care of installation are many. Front doors for homes are designed to be heavy, durable, and specified to your frame. These specialists will install your door quickly, efficiently, and without half of the problems that you’d experience if you’ve never installed a door before. The disadvantages are that there are labor costs when it comes to hiring. They range depending on the person or company that...
Ensuring Quality Comfort in Your Seat Cushions
Written by: The Foam Factory There are a variety of factors and values that you should pay attention to when shopping for a new foam seat for your sofa or couch. These values determine how comfortable you’ll be sitting down, how long it’ll last, and the amount of firmness provided. Here are some helpful tips that will help you understand what you should be looking for. Personal Preferences First, you need to know what your personal preferences are. Do you want your couch to be firm or soft? Do you want it to sink easily? Or maybe you want to rid of your back aches by providing a more stiff backing. ILD Indentation Load Deflection (ILD) determines how firm the seat foam will be. If you want a more firm seat, look into getting a higher ILD rating. Same goes for...
Memory Foam: Just the Facts
Written by: The Foam Factory The polyurethane foam we collectively call “memory foam” is a quirky little product developed in partnership with NASA. Originally called “slow spring back foam,” memory foam was a quirky product that NASA felt it could commercialize. The trouble was that the manufacturing process was unreliable, but the 1980s brought the “Tempur-Pedic Swedish Mattress,” which helped to popularize the foam as a part of anyone’s healthy sleep regiment. Since those days, the memory foam bed has become far more affordable. Still, companies continue to market mattresses well beyond the average consumer’s price point. How Memory Foam Works Memory foam becomes soft when it comes into contact with body heat, which helps it contour to meet your...
A New Take on a Golden Oldie: Combining Frosted and Clear Glass
If you scroll through home design blogs nowadays, there are all kinds of enviable and trendy changes that feel out-of-reach unless you happen to be a millionaire who is building a home from scratch. Even choosing new windows and doors for your current home can be costly and require substantial extra labor. While the natural, unfrosted glass installed in most or all of your windows may seem tame, recent aesthetic innovations have brought in new, lower-impact options that allow you to shape your home with ease. Frosted Glass Frosted Glass has a fantastical look that obscures the view from outside into the home. It is good for security, but should be used sparingly to keep the home from feeling like a bubble. Foyers are intended to bring light into the entryway of...
Adding extra comfort using memory foam bed toppers
Written by Foam Factory, Inc. Memory foam was invented in the 1960s by the NASA. This material was initially used in shuttles to provide maximum comfort during long hours of sitting. However, this invention was soon adapted for domestic use in order to procure more comfort to normal people. Generally anyone would benefit from using sleeping on memory foams. This is especially beneficial for couples as the memory foam provides the convenience of remaining intact even when the other person is getting up or moving during their sleep. The memory foam acts by molding the shape of the person’s body. This ensures that the person is kept comfortable while adequate support is provided to the spine and other parts of the body. People sleeping on memory foam beds tend to...