Tag: home
5 Tips to Keep Your Home Cozy This Winter
5 Tips to Keep Your Home Cozy This Winter In Ottawa, and throughout eastern Ontario, winter is a seriously frigid season – with snowstorms, freezing rain, and often blizzard conditions. This isn’t a good time to be losing your indoor heat because of poor insulation or air leakage. The point is, when your home is […]
Furnaces: Renting Versus Owning
Furnaces: Renting Versus Owning When you own a home, a furnace is a must. It would be unimaginable to have a home without one, especially in colder climates—heating your home in winter months goes far beyond simple comfort. The big question surrounding furnaces lately, however, may surprise you: recently, more and more homeowners are trying […]
9 Ways to Incorporate Canadian Style in Your Home
When it comes to home styling and decors, Canada sure has a lot to offer and teach the world. The ingenious blend of contemporary and classic home styling and accessories exude in most Canadian homes, which is no surprising as Canadians treasure diversity. Canadians also assimilate nature in home styling. Hockey, coffee, and outdoors are […]
Laundry Hacks for Busy Moms
Laundry Hacks for Busy Moms Laundry is one of the most dreaded household chores. No one likes the hours of backbreaking work. Folding load after load after load is enough to make any busy mom scream out in surrender. Unfortunately, that doesn’t stop the laundry from piling up. Thankfully, there are some laundry hacks that […]
12 DIY Spring Home Decor Crafts
12 DIY Spring Home Decor Crafts The time is near for Spring decor to start making its way into your home. Out with the winter, in with the fresh and bright colours of Spring. Who can resist the urge to start decorating their home in anticipation of warmer weather? It’s a time of excitement, and […]
Simple Ways to Make your Bathroom Look Bigger
Simple Ways to Make your Bathroom Look Bigger Small washrooms can be frustrating to live with; especially in smaller homes or condos. A bathroom should be an oasis in many ways, so lacking enough space can be a problem. Luckily, we can implement a number of different tricks to make the space feel a lot […]
How to Decorate for Christmas on a Budget
How to Decorate for Christmas on a Budget For many, Christmas is their favourite holiday, but it can also be the most expensive holiday. There are things you can do to help save money when you decorate for Christmas. Are you trying to stay on a budget this holiday season? Fortunately, there are […]
5 Ways to Decorate Your Home for Fall
5 Ways to Decorate Your Home for Fall Summer is officially over and that means that fall has begun. The great thing about fall—aside from it signaling cooler weather—is that it is the beginning of the holiday season. This means that you now have a real excuse to start decorating your home. Fall is […]
6 Dependable Hosting Tips for Thanksgiving
6 Dependable Hosting Tips for Thanksgiving In June, the Ottawa Mommy Club had the pleasure of being invited by Maytag for a sneak peek at Canada’s Home, a home that honours our country by displaying dependable products for Canadians to use such as Maytag appliances that stand for durability and reliability! Maytag offers […]
5 Easy Garage Organization Tips
5 Easy Garage Organization Tips Is clutter in your garage getting the best of you? Do you spend more time than necessary searching for things you need. If so, keep reading. These handy garage organization tips are just for you! Use Storage Bins Plastic storage bins are a great tool for keeping […]
5 Money Saving Tips When Selling Your Home
5 Money Saving Tips When Selling Your Home Now that you have decided on selling your home, how will you turn your home into the most valuable asset it can be? Your home is undoubtedly the most valuable asset for the vast majority of us. Getting it ready and selling it can cost you […]
How Canadian Families Can Cut Down Their Moving Budgets in Four Simple Steps
How Canadian Families Can Cut Down Their Moving Budgets in Four Simple Steps Families in Canada are on the move. Literally. With approximately five million Canadians relocating between provinces and cities annually, many families are struggling to slash their budgets when it comes to moving around. And why not? Packing up and finding a […]
5 Ways Families Can Renovate Their Home Without Breaking The Piggy Bank
5 Ways Families Can Renovate Their Home Without Breaking The Piggy Bank Your home is the most special place in the world. It’s where you listened to your child mumble their first words and watched them take their first steps. That is why renovating your home is so much fun. You get to take […]
Turn Your Bonus Into A Lasting Family Heirloom With Custom Wood Furniture
Turn Your Bonus Into A Lasting Family Heirloom With Custom Wood Furniture Over the past several years, year-end bonuses have been making a comeback as businesses perform better; last year, nearly 80 percent of businesses provided some year-end or performance-based bonus to their employees. With a typical financial bonus accounting for one or two […]
Four Common Roofing Mistakes To Avoid
Four Common Roofing Mistakes To Avoid Toronto is a beautiful city filled with history and culture. With a history stretching hundreds of years, Toronto has many buildings in need of renovation or repair. It’s tempting for many homeowners to try to fix our houses all by ourselves. Watching home renovation shows on television […]
Protecting Your Kids from Household Electrical Dangers
We owe a lot of our modern conveniences to electricity and it’s fair to say that life would not be the same without it. But just because electricity is very helpful, it’s crucial that we remember it is also potentially very dangerous. This is something you always need to keep in mind when working with it […]
Saving Money on Your Summer Energy Bills
Saving money and energy use in the summer is not only great for the environment, but is also great for your family budget. With the school year almost over its time to start thinking about you and kids spending more time at home. It takes only a few simple steps to cut your energy bill […]
Spring Spruce-Up for Your Home #AlwaysDiscreet
With all of the snow gone, it is finally time to thinking about welcoming sprint into our homes. It can be done in simple ways, or it can involve fun DIY projects to improve an area of your home. Here are some ideas you can use to give your home a spring spruce up! A […]
Mortgage Application Checklist For First Time Home Buyers
Mortgage Application Checklist For First Time Home Buyers If you have a dream about owning your own home and applying for a mortgage then you may be a bit nervous when beginning the process. While having your own home is just about every family’s dream the high prices and paperwork involved can be overwhelming. […]
Protect Your Home Against Wildlife This Spring
What the spring season means for urban wildlife in Ottawa Spring appears to have finally sprung in Ottawa and for many area homeowners it’s a welcome opportunity to get outside and enjoy the warm weather. The same is also true for many species of urban wildlife that live in our communities. Ottawa is […]
What You Need To Know When Hiring a House Painter
What You Need To Know When Hiring a House Painter Your time is extremely valuable, so why not choose a professional like ottawapainter.com to complete your next painting project? Hiring painting contractors removes the stress for many homeowners, and should ensure that the job is done properly, safely, and in a timely manner. That being […]
Tackle That Linen Closet…You’ll Feel Better!
Let’s talk winter and your home. The holiday decorations are all put way and now what. Sometimes after the holidays and in the middle of winter, it’s nice for your decor to feel fresh and clean so this is an opportunity to focus on getting your closets organized. Gasp! Are you that person that throws […]
Home Products that Make the Air Toxic ~ uHoo Giveaway
It is pretty easy for us to be swayed by advertisements of various products, particularly those used to clean our homes or make our homes smell clean. Little do we know that these same products, though they clean our home, bring along chemicals that affect our health. Children and people with asthma or allergies are […]
