You wouldn’t think of putting your pool table outside in the backyard, but did you know that billiards began as a lawn game? According to the pooltables.com website, billiards is a 15th century Northern European invention that started out something like croquet. The...
Have you ever stopped and thought about the number of trees it takes to build a house or garage? As The House Designers website puts it, one of the first steps is generally a lumber order. But before those places existed, we had to know how much lumber the average...
It’s a numbers game. The lion’s share of the budget usually goes to the workshop building. If there’s anything left, it can be used for finishing off the interior – and a big need there is for storage. The best way to approach this challenge is to avoid it in the...
They don’t always come with the house. Unless it’s a master planned community with home designs that require them, a garage is something that an individual homebuilder can decide to live without. If you buy one of these homes, you’ll have to add the garage yourself....
A growing number of Americans – especially women – are looking for a place to escape that’s not a part of the house. According to a study commissioned by Ikea, 45 percent of the survey takers admitted to retreating to their parked car to grab some me-time. What’s...
