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Function and fashion are two major factors to consider while planning for a home renovation. While we want our homes to be aesthetically pleasing, we also need them to be more efficient, organized and less cluttered. The solution? Integrating unique features into your home renovation designs can solve organizational challenges while looking beautiful and distinct. Sweeten, a free renovation platform that matches homeowners with licensed general contractors and tracks their projects, shows how Sweeten homeowners have used unique features in their renovations to inject beauty-and function-into their homes. Jewelry wall: A major upgrade from boxes and bowls Tina + Andrew's jewelry...

LAUNDRY, GUYS. It’s all I can think about. Riddle me this: how is it possible to wear the same few pieces every day and STILL amass piles of things to be washed? Did I break a time-space barrier? Is this physics? Did my spring cleaning unlock a black hole of clothing that’s been sitting, un-laundered, for millennia? Is this what you talk about in science class? Like a lot of apartment dwellers, laundry day is a whole THING for me. I wasn’t #blessed with an in-unit (or even in-building) washer or dryer, so once a week, I load up a...

Although I am not quite sure why toilet paper is one of the essentials of panic shopping, I guess many of us have bags of toilet paper at home in these days. I have to admit the consumption of toilet paper does go fast when we all stuck at home. Use myself as example, I can’t remember how many times I was in the awkward situation when I found there was nothing but a cardboard roll left besides me. Hence, I started to look for a toilet paper roll holder. Then I actually came across some quite interesting designs. Cloud,...

The laundry room is an area of the house where clothes are being washed and dried but this does not mean that you have to keep it drab or uninteresting. An old farmhouse laundry room might just look like how most laundry rooms appeared before but laundry rooms nowadays are becoming more than a place for clothes. They are also being designed with great looking interiors that can capture a serene feeling. Normally installed with an automatic washing machine and clothes dryer, this room would also have other washing items like basin, ironing board and cabinets for storage of soiled...

Looking for your first travel trailer can be very overwhelming. It is a big investment and there are so many factors to consider like where you want to travel, how often you’ll be using it, what vehicle you have available to tow it, and what features you find absolutely necessary. When choosing your first travel trailer, how easy it is to tow and maneuverability will play a big role. The best beginner travel trailers are lightweight and small, yet still have all the features that make a travel trailer desirable in the first place like comfortable sleeping arrangements, a kitchen,...