Don’t Move, Improve: How Outdoor Renovations Add Value to Your Home | 2024’s Hot Trend
Thinking about selling your home or simply want to see its value rise? Here's the answer: Look outside. In today's hot real estate market, the way your house looks from the street (curb appeal) is highly important. You know what they say: First impression lasts. Forget fancy inside changes: smart
How To Modernize Your Traditional Home? | Easy 2024 Guide For Bridging Eras
Vintage decor is always in trend and gives your home character, but adding some modern elements, from new countertops, to new cabinets, can update your home with a few small steps. A traditional home may look charming, but can also lack an updated vision -- you can’t just add a
Top Kitchen Cleaning Hacks in 2024 – Keep Your New Kitchen New | KBS Refresh
Do you want an Instagram worthy kitchen? You know those kitchens that look perfect, without an item out of place, and of course not one crumb or finger print on any of the appliances. With our kitchen cleaning hacks in 2024, including all natural options, you can keep your kitchen
The Ultimate Guide to Choosing Kitchen Cabinets in 2024 | KBS Cabinets
The New Year brings new changes--and perhaps you are reading this because you decided it was time for you to ditch the outdated look in your kitchen and go for something updated, new, and fresh. If this is going to be the year you are finally going to remodel your
The Woodlands Seeks Professional Help Against Feral Hogs
The Woodlands community has long grown weary of "exploding" feral hog activity near their homes. Now, the southeastern Texan town's Board of Directors has agreed to hire a consultant to help them keep its neighborhoods safe in response. The seven-member legislative body unanimously approved the payment of $25,000 to an "expert of feral
Leesburg Enlists Goats for Weed Control
In Leesburg, VA, goats have been contracted - no kidding - to do what they do best: eat weeds away. In late April, Leesburg Town Council unanimously voted to end the controversial practice of spraying herbicide on green areas and replace it with 'goat power.' July 15th brought the first herd
Metro Starts Compensating Late-Night Workers for Service Cuts
Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) has begun offering late-night commuters a travel subsidy in compensation for its service cuts due to maintenance. Commonly known as Metro, the organization announced in a June 24 press release that qualified workers who travel between midnight and 4 a.m. can receive a $3 subsidy toward a shared
Alexandria Introduces Local Pass for Discounted Fitness Classes
With the summer descending upon us with all its heat in Alexandria, it is high time that we get in shape sooner than any later now. And for the likeminded, the city has devised a cost-saving opportunity. The Alexandria Fitness Pass (AFP), a local adoption of the spirit of the ClassPass, the
McLean Teens Start Jobs Site, Put Peers to Work
Residents of McLean, Virginia, didn't have much of an unconventional choice when they needed some work done at their yards until recently. That changed when local teenagers took it on themselves to organize and offer their labor as a meaningful alternative. Regardless of the season, yards require meticulous manual attention. And
Public Art to Transform Frederick, Foster Sense of Community
Investing in public art remains somewhat overshadowed in today’s controversial macro-politics and might even be seen by many as trivial and going against the tide but Frederick County in Maryland has now a major plan to prove them wrong. The Frederick Arts Council (FAC), a non-profit that first convened in 1976 following