Las Vegas winters might be mild, but desert nights can still get cold and temperatures start plummeting during the holiday season. If you want your home to feel warm and inviting this winter, you might want to consider a few decorative additions. Warm up your home with some simple, cozy touches for winter. Cozy Touches for Winter to Make Your Home Feel More Inviting Add Living Color to Your...

The holiday season is here, and with shorter days seem to come longer to-do lists. Your checklist becomes easier to manage when you tackle it early and break it down into smaller steps. If it’s your turn to host, it’s never too early to start your holiday home preparation. Eliminate the Stress from Your Holiday Home Preparation Plan Your Menu and Your Day Before the big day, sit down and plan the...

Are you hosting Thanksgiving this year and concerned about getting your home ready in time? You don’t have to be extravagant to strike the right chord. All it takes is a handful of simple updates to get your home ready for guests and make Thanksgiving stress-free. 3 Ways to Prepare Your Home for a Stress-Free Holiday: 1. Paint Your Front Door Re-painting your front door a bold shade like red or...

Choosing a range hood for your kitchen is a great way to introduce a little style while adding an important appliance. Here's what you need to know about choosing the right hood for the job, while making sure to get one you'll love to look at for years. Tips for Choosing the Right Range Hood What a Range Hood Does The purpose of this appliance is to draw steam, grease and odors from cooking so it...

Most people either love fall (and consider it their favorite season of the year) or tend to mourn the end of summer, associating gloom with the shorter days and reduced sunlight. You can accentuate the former outlook and de-emphasize the latter with some clever interior design touches. 3 Tips to Change Your Outlook on Fall Tip No. 1 if you embrace fall: Curb your nighttime lighting with dimmers,...

A family room is a special place where homework is worked on, movies and popcorn are enjoyed, and memories are made. Just like other places in the home, family rooms are subject to trends, with popular changes popping up from time to time. The face of the traditional family room has come a long way since the days of '70s sitcoms. Of course, wood paneling went out of style decades ago, but what...

Few places in Las Vegas rival the adeptness with which Discovery Children's Museum excites and engages children. Located in the downtown area, this three-story museum is 58,000 square-feet, featuring nine-themed exhibition halls and over 26,000 square feet of interactive, hands-on core exhibits. Its central mission is to provide a vibrant and engaging experience to young guests through a broad...

One thing is for certain: window treatment dilemmas can be confounding. If you're like many people who have a problem with their window treatments, when you don't know what to do to remedy it, you do nothing. Better to leave the dilemma alone than to risk making it worse. In actuality, you have a choice that will make it better: turn to the window professionals at Polar Shades. They have the...

Taken individually, they may appear harmless. However collectively, the air leaks in your home could be compromising your indoor air comfort and increasing your monthly energy bills by as much as 25 percent. Many of these leaks occur around a home's “envelope,” or the roof, attic, subfloor, exterior doors, windows and exterior walls. “If you added up all the leaks, holes and gaps in a typical...