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How To Stop Your Garage Door From Opening On Its Own

How To Stop Your Garage Door From Opening On Its Own

The garage door is an essential part of your home but often underappreciated. It adds to your home’s curb appeal and gives you and your family an extra level of safety and convenience. Since we usually use our garage doors multiple times a day, it puts more stress on the

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Matching Your Detached Garage to Your House

Matching Your Detached Garage to Your House

A detached garage can be a beautiful thing. It provides extra storage and/or work space – and being separate from the house there’s a nice noise buffer present for any power-tool activities you engage in. But one thing can ruin this beautiful scene – having a detached garage that doesn’t match

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Fall and Winter Are Great for Garage Makeovers

Fall and Winter Are Great for Garage Makeovers

Do you know when some of the best times for garage makeovers are? Spring and summer seem to be the only options– right? Wrong. Fall and winter are great seasons to go about putting a makeover on your garage (in fact, they are excellent times to explore updating any section

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What Kind of Garage Fridge Should I Get?

What Kind of Garage Fridge Should I Get?

What makes a great garage fridge?  Is it one that keeps our beer cold while we toil away on oily, messy projects in the garage, door opened and breeze rolling in?  Or is a great fridge defined by its space, one large enough to house full racks of ribs, whole

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Making Sure Your Garage Is Functional Year Round

Making Sure Your Garage Is Functional Year Round

Your garage should work year-round for you. There should not be a season or a time when you can’t stow your vehicles away or get hard at work on your next project. But, keeping your garage in a condition that allows this does take some maintenance. Weather patterns are sure to

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Should I Drywall My Detached Garage?

Should I Drywall My Detached Garage?

To drywall or not to drywall – that is indeed the question of the day. More specifically, should you move forward with installing drywall in your detached garage or not. This is going to be different for every individual and every family – it’s largely going to be contingent on what

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Tips for Creating an Energy Efficient Garage

Tips for Creating an Energy Efficient Garage

How to Make Your Garage More Energy Efficient Just because you may not be in your garage as much as other parts of your home doesn’t mean that it should be any less energy efficient.  Garages are probably the most energy inefficient room in the house. The garage door is

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Tips to Increasing Natural Light in Your Garage

Tips to Increasing Natural Light in Your Garage

As a homeowner, you take pride in your garage. You know it doesn’t have to be a musty storage unit. With some quick fixes, you can make your garage somewhere you actually want to spend time. Whether for tinkering, band practice or hosting parties, find out how to increase the

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How to Perfect Your Garage Kitchen and Bar

How to Perfect Your Garage Kitchen and Bar

Who says that garages are for cars?  These days, garage projects have taken on new lives, becoming separate living quarters that serve as detached suites for guests, movie rooms, a loft playroom for the kids, or even transformed into home-garage gyms. As a chef, entertainer, bartender, or simply a lover

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