About Me

HouseDr is a family owned & operated small business fully Liability Insured. With backgrounds in plumbing and real estate and over 25+ years experience in renovations and rehabs, we offer our clients reasonable rates on general home repairs, maintenance and renovation projects. Work done with integrity toward offering an honest days work for an honest days pay.

Saturday, December 29, 2012

Build something NEW!

In a booming economy where everyone is bringing home some bacon new New NEW is the way of the day.  Disposal breaks down?  Install a new one with all the latest and greatest gadgets and extras!  You've seen the display for the updated look on "old fashion" styled washers and dryers, and they are PRETTY!  Who wouldn't enjoy doing laundry in a shiny new deep red set?  That glass door front load laundromat look is IN! House too small for entertaining in style?  Bigger and better just got built up the road! 

I used to do something different, too, when the economy was booming.  Like me, I'm sure you've felt the pinch - some in more ways than one.  Bringing home the bacon is getting a lot harder, so spending it takes more consideration as well.  I noticed something else about this economy.  Families are responding by banding together.  The kids aren't just coming home after college while they find a job.  They're coming home to help keep the home in the family.  "Blended family" is taking on new meaning as married children partner with aq set of parents to share one big family house.

That means more people putting more stress on existing houses.  Up and moving to "bigger and better" isn't the answer for many right now.  A lot more remodeling is taking place, a lot more adding on.  And a lot more repairing and re-using what we've got is also the smarter way to go at this time.  Instead of fretting over losing what WAS, HouseDr is hunkering down and thoroughly enjoying a whole new way of life.  Handyman suits me!  I like fixing things.  I like rebuilding and reshaping the stuff we use in our lives.  I find I am enjoying rebuilding and reshaping my life along the way as well.  And I'm meeting a lot of great folks I wouldn't have met otherwise.

NOW is a great time...

Real Estate is such an interesting Industry.  Usually, when prices are down low on a product it flies off the shelves.  Real Estate is so different!  Housing prices keep falling and less and less homes are on the market for sale as a result.

WHAT A GREAT TIME TO REPAIR, REMODEL AND REFRESH YOUR HOME!
 
Sure, now may not be the best time to put your house on the market so you can buy a new one - but you don't have to put up with that dated kitchen or bath!

Kitchen and Bath updates not only make an entire house feel "brand new" but they almost always enhance the value of a home.  Now may not be the best time for selling, but somewhere down the line when the time is right you'll be ready!  And you can enjoy the fresh "new" feeling right now, too!

Paint is another excellent way to refresh your home with a minimum of interruption to daily life.  Colors change along with the seasons - why shouldn't the colors in your home?  A freshly painted room gives a whole "new" feel and ambience to a home!

Don't wait!  Drive away those winter doldrums and REFRESH your home for the New Year!