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Secret Gems of a Great Place to Retire in Florida

There is a little gem in Florida that is not very well known. There are no t-shirt shops here. There is no traffic to talk about even though the traffic gets heavier when the snowbirds return. Even so, congestion is not possible. The city is ancient, but there is a lot to do.

Where am I talking about? The secret gem is a small town called Homosassa. Homosassa is located about an hour north of Tampa on the Natural Beach in Citrus County.

A small town called Homosassa

Natural Beach is filled with nature. The biggest attraction here is the Homosassa Springs State, Wildlife Park. Here you can learn all about manatees, large mammals found here throughout the year, but come in large numbers to live in warm river waters during winter. There are many guided tours to take you swimming with manatees. This gentle giant is unlike anything you’ve …

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|In: Home Moving|Last Updated:
Some Important Things to Know Before Having an Ideal Home Built

Like the cliché that will have it, home is a place where the heart is. This means someone’s home is where he goes to his family to eat together and share stories about their day. It is a family residence, where dreams are built and their future is planned. Home is a place of comfort and protection, where all the pressures of work and school seem so far away, and the people who live in it can relax quietly. Every family’s dream is to build their own home, where they can start a new life together. However, before burying the foundations of their new home, families must think of several things that will affect the general progress of the housing construction project.

Knowing How much money for the construction projects

As with almost everything in life, building a new home involves a lot of careful planning so that all efforts …

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|In: Home Decoration|Last Updated:
Various Types of Roofing Materials

Before doing a roofing project, one might not understand how wide the selection of roofing material. Only a part of shingles in a local home improvement warehouse can be enough to make an amateur head spin. Shingles is just the beginning; there are various kinds of materials to be decided between when starting a roof project. To begin with clarifying, the roofing material is the visible top layer of the roof. Roofing material is intended for the purpose of isolation and protection from external elements, with secondary functions as aesthetics.

There are several roofing materials made from natural elements. The thatched roof is made of overlapping plant material and can still be found throughout Europe and the UK. The thatched roof may look outdated but some can have a very long life expectancy and protect well against the elements. Most straw roof applications are currently in developing countries. But, there …

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|In: Home Remodeling|Last Updated:
Front Yard Landscape And Home Improvement

Did you know that well-thought front yard landscapes are more valuable in terms of the value of your home than kitchen or bathroom renovations? This should be a good enough reason to start working on a comprehensive plan to fix what’s wrong in your yard.

Here are five top tips that are inexpensive and likely to improve the look of your property overnight.

  • Do a major clean up in the yard. Call in a rubble remover and get rid of the old rusted hosepipe and the broken-down washing machine and lawnmower. Pull out the weeds at the side of the house. Rake and de-weed the lawn. Sweep the paths and driveway. Fix or replace rattling windows and doors. Apply varnish to window frames to brighten them up. Clean the gutters. Go up on the roof and rid it of debris and give the roof a good sweep. Paint the trim
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Remodeling Your Home – Give Your Conservatory Style, With New Furnishings

Making our homes as lovely as we can, has become a national past-time and every weekend Brits everywhere are hitting the DIY centers and looking for the next way to improve their homes. It had been the case that some people were thinking purely in terms of how much this would benefit them when it comes to the valuation of their homes, but even in the slow market when house prices have fallen so dramatically, we know this will not be forever. Making your home somewhere to be proud of and to enjoy, is more than just simply adding value, it is also not losing value and it is having a home you love to live in, which is the most important thing.

If you have been lucky enough to add a conservatory to your dwellings in the last few years then maybe you know, like with all home spaces …

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