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Family-Friendly St. Patrick's Day Activities
Everyone's Irish on St. Patrick's Day, or so the saying goes. If that's not true, it's still a great day to celebrate Irish culture. Our real estate agents want to share some hints to bring the history and legends to life with a little family fun.
- Start the day with dinner!
Older children may enjoy helping put dinner in the crockpot so that it can simmer all day. Start with four shredded carrots (or two cups pre-cut), ten baby red potatoes cut in quarters, and one chopped onion at the bottom of the pot. Place four pounds of corned beef brisket on top of the veggies and cover with three cups of water and two cups of beef broth. Sprinkle spices from the flavor packet that came with brisket on top. Cook on low for eight hours. An hour before serving, stir in 1/2 head of shredded cabbage and cook for another hour. Dinner will be ready and waiting for you at the end of the day.
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Plants to Include in a Butterfly Garden
March 14 is National Butterfly Day. What better day to learn about butterflies, especially with spring approaching?
As you're settling in your neighborhood near Klamath Falls homes for sale, how about starting a movement to celebrate this day? Educate yourself about the challenges for survival butterflies must face as their numbers diminish due to development, loss of habitat and food supply, and pesticides. You can create a veritable corridor of pesticide-free, nectar-bearing plants for energy and for caterpillars to feast on.
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Tips for Organizing Your Kitchen Pantry
Once you've searched through the Klamath Falls homes for sale and found the perfect property for your family, it's time to get to work on optimizing the space. Since your kitchen is one of the most-used rooms in the house, a well-organized pantry will do wonders. Here are a few tips that our real estate agents have put together on how to get it organized:
- Start with a Pantry Reset
The first thing you'll want to do is start with a clean slate. Take every single item out of your pantry and set it aside. This will allow you to wipe down the interior and install any shelves or drawers (which we'll discuss in more detail later) that will help you optimize the space.
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How to Keep Renovation Costs in Check
As you're looking at Klamath Falls homes for sale, you may decide to eschew a new, perfect house in favor of an older one you can fix up yourself. Not only is it a great way to save money, but it's also a great way to make your home exactly the way you want it. Unfortunately, it's also a great way to spend an obscene amount on renovations. Here are some ways you can keep those costs in check when fixing up your new home.
- Budgeting. It's important to go in with a plan. Map out what renovations you want to do, how much you can expect them to cost, and how much you're willing to spend. Set a budget not just for the project as a whole but for each room. For instance, the kitchen is, on average, about 15% of your home's value. So the budget for kitchen renovations shouldn't exceed 15% of what you paid for the house. Breaking costs down this way will help you stay on budget.
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5 Home Improvement Trends for 2022
While many homeowners are selling their homes to take advantage of the current market, others are investing in their homes to make them more comfortable now and more valuable down the road. If you asked our real estate agents what top few trends they've noticed in recent months, these would be on their lists.
- Well-designed home offices
With more and more of us working from home, few of us are happy with a spare bedroom doing double duty as an office. We don't want the backdrop of our online meetings to have beds in the background or a houseguest's luggage in the corner. We certainly don't want to have to ask our company to leave the room to take business calls. Dedicated office space will have different needs based on profession, but some items will be common to most. Highspeed internet will probably be first on the list, but from that point, personalization could mean generous drawing space with plenty of natural light for an architect or whiteboards and storage space for an elementary school teacher. Versatility is the key to a home office bringing added value to the home.