Improve Your Home with Glass Patio Doors
Who doesn’t want more natural light in their home? Installing glass patio doors is one way to get it. Glass patio doors also provide another, wider, entry to your home, open your living area to the outdoors, and make spaces seem larger.Northern Florida and...
A Year to Home Improvement: May through August
When you tackle just one project a month, making improvements to your home is less of a chore and you’re more likely to accomplish everything you want to get done. Here’s a list of a few projects you can do to improve your home this spring and summer.May:...
How to Prepare your Home or Business for Hurricane Season
Hurricane season is here, and although Florida hasn’t seen a major storm make landfall since 2005’s Hurricane Wilma, home and business owners should still be prepared for the weather to take a nasty turn. Hurricane season runs from June to November, with...
4 Benefits of Using Reflective Glass in Your Building Design
Glass is a beautiful medium for use in building design and construction. It creates openness and optimal lighting, yet still offers protection from the elements, including radiant heat from the sun.Reflective glass, in particular, offers outstanding aesthetic and...
Headlight Restoration: Should you DIY?
Perform an internet search for cloudy headlights and you’ll find thousands of tips on how to fix them yourself using everything from toothpaste and vinegar to insect repellent and sandpaper. Depending on the extent of your headlight cloudiness, some of these...
Get Your Shower Cleaning On Track
Cleaning the bathroom is always such a hassle. One of the most overlooked spots in the bathroom is the shower door track, which can collect dirt, hair and calcium deposits. The moisture the track collects also causes mold and mildew to grow. But you can stop all this...
What’s Low-E Glass and Why Do You Need It?
When heat or light energy is absorbed by glass, it’s either dispersed by moving air or reradiated by the surface of the glass because of its emissive properties. Low-E glass has a microscopically thin, transparent coating that reduces the emissivity of the glass...
Home Improvement Projects that Generate the Best Returns
You had big dreams when you purchased your home – fantasies of turning it into an open, airy space worthy of the pages of Jacksonville Magazine’s Home edition. Time, resources and finances may have held you back from some of those dreams, but that...