Our Top 12 Neutral Paint Colors

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Remember when Jerry got new cabinets? Too many decisions can fry your brain! Don’t let that stop you from making the important calls on the design of your home.

When you’re moving into a new home, you probably have a billion paint colors on your mind. There’s just nothing better than sprucing up your new place with a fresh coat of paint, but picking the exact shade you want can be a bit of a doozy, and we’re guessing most people find it overwhelming. Don’t pull a Jerry and let someone else decide – you might end up hating it. Let us help you narrow down your choices to a manageable few.

(If you’re painting so you can move out…)
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Where’s My Stapler? A DIY Tool Organization & Storage Idea

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Tool Organization - How To Stop Losing Tools

New homeowners tend to acquire quite the collection of tools when they first move in. Trips to local hardware stores, shower gifts, fixes that somehow require that single tool you don’t have in your collection all attribute to a random pile of tools.

Pretty quickly, I’m sure you feel like you have plenty, actually you probably think you have too many when the dust settles, but trust me when I say that this enormous collection of tools will mysteriously be hidden in every nook and cranny of your home in about a year IF you don’t get those bad boys under control with some serious tool organization right from the start.

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Tips for a Moving Container Move

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Tips for a Moving Container MoveAbout a year ago, my husband and I packed up all of our belongings and moved from St. Louis to our current apartment in Chicago.  We rented a PODS container and we used HireAHelper for the “muscle” portion of our move. I’m not saying it was a good time, because is moving ever really fun? But it actually wasn’t too incredibly painful, and we both lived to tell the tale. In fact, we detailed our moving escapade right here on the HireAHelper blog. (more…)

How to Survive Temporary Housing

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Picture this. Your lease is up on your apartment, and you’re getting the boot next month. But, you have no idea where you’re going to live next and want to spend some time finding the perfect new home. So you turn to your friends, your family, or even a local hotel for a place to stay during this “in-between homes” time. This does sound like a stressful scenario, but it is also a very common situation for many people. We totally get it…you don’t want to rush into a new lease without checking out all of your options, so now you’re stuck in limbo.

This transitional period can be really tough on a mover. It’s one thing to move all of your stuff from your current home to your next home, but what do you do when you’re stuck in moving purgatory? We don’t have all of the answers, but we do want to make things a teeny tiny bit easier on you. So here are our tips on how to survive temporary housing.How to Survive Temporary Housing

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(Almost) FREE New Address Announcements

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According to us (very official), we are pretty sure society as a whole has this LOVE/HATE relationship with Pinterest going on. We LOVE Pinterest and all of the eye candy, inspiration and flawless beauty it oozes. If we’re putting it all out there, we’ll just say it- Pinterest is what dreams are made of and the magical place in the twenty-first century where fairytales are born.

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How Do I Pick The Perfect Front Door Color?

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If you’ve opened up a home decorating magazine in the past year, peeked at Pinterest for more than 72 seconds, or driven anywhere near a  trendy neighborhood… you’ve seen it. Yup, there’s no missing it these days, not a chance. And what is it, you ask?!

Well, “it” is the epidemic we call “the colored front door craze”. There’s no denying it, the colored front door craze is all the rage in the DIY & home decorating world- the more colorful and bold, the better! Painting your front door a bright and bold color is a way to make a statement, create a cheery little piece of property that makes you (& hopefully your neighbors) smile, while also giving your home’s threshold a little extra personality.

But the burning question that comes with this color craze, “What is the perfect front door color for me?” “What type of personality does my home have?!” “Have these DIY rookies officially lost their minds?” We’ll save you the trouble on that last one and answer: Yes, a long time ago. For the first two questions, only you can answer them but we are here to help guide you in the right direction.

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How Much Do For Sale Signs Cost? We Compare The Results

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Average For Sale Signs Cost is $15.98

How much do FOR SALE SIGNS cost?

If you’re new to the market of selling homes, you may be just like us & completely clueless as to how much those bright red & white FOR SALE signs cost. Of course when you’re looking to sell your house BY OWNER, for sale signs are essential advertisement and those costs are a must, regardless of the price. However, we also realize that when you’re in the process of selling one place and moving into a new one, you feel like a 90’s rapper throwing big bills in the air like you just don’t care. (Not as fun as it looks, huh?)

Back to reality: we are not 90’s rappers (bummer!); we are working people who feel like every big bill matters! So when it comes to buying those FOR SALE signs to let the hood know your house is for sale, we want you to get the most bang for your buck and help you stop the money bleeding as much as we can.  Getting the best deal on those important signs will help us all feel a little better about the costs of moving. We recently set out to do a little research and answer this burning question on behalf of all those cost conscious movers out there:

Which store has the best DEAL on these important for sale signs?

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Stage your Home to Sell: Fresh Flowers and Plants

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Recent studies are proving that most prospective home buyers check out your house & decide whether or not it’s “the one” well before they step foot in it. With today’s technology overhaul, home buying is less like a blind date and far more like online dating.

To snag those online suitors, it is absolutely essential that your home’s “profile pictures” are nothing less than amazing. Some casual pictures of your home looking “lived in” is just not going to cut it in today’s market.

You must go that extra mile and get your home all dressed up to create photos that are much more attractive in order to earn that “first date”. Chances are with a series of show-stopping pictures, courting those prospective buyers will be a breeze! So, how do you stage your home just right?

We  offered a few helpful hints in staging & photographing your home here, and we briefly touched on bringing some life into your home with fresh flowers and plants in that post. Well today, we want to dive into that idea a bit further, because we feel flowers take those photos to the next level, which might just turn one of those lucky first dates into a real “keeper” (if you know what we mean!)

Plus, now that it’s officially feeling more spring-like we figured a post all about flowers would be a fun way to welcome the new season.

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DIY Corner: From Miss to Mrs – Advanced Guide to Changing Your Last Name

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Calling all future brides… we don’t want you to miss out on today’s tutorial! Since one half of this rookie team is now married and one is on her way to the altar, we wanted to share our personal tips & tricks to changing your last name. So let’s dive right in & make this dreaded process a little less dreadful.

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