Posts with tag 'for owners'

As the holiday season nears, one of the most cherished traditions involves picking the ideal centerpiece for your home. Our real estate agents at Badger Peabody & Smith Realty know that your living space choices show your lifestyle and values. This is why we're looking into whether a live or artificial tree fits your New Hampshire home better this year.

The Appeal of Live Christmas Trees

Bringing a cut evergreen into your home creates a magical feeling. The real smell of pine or fir sets a mood that artificial trees just can't match. New Hampshire has plenty of tree farms, making it easy to get a live tree. This helps local farmers and keeps a family custom going strong.

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Now that I'm of a certain age, I've been thinking of ways in which I can age in place, maintaining my independence, yet be able to call on a community of friends and family or an organization like Senior Meals if I need a helping hand.   

Some individuals may want to downsize from a large home where they raised their families to something smaller and more manageable, while others will want to stay in the homes they've occupied for most of their adult lives. Still others will find transitional facilities that offer options for independent living, assisted...

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There is this content creator that posts videos about his old house and fixing it up, except he does so with self-deprecating humor and many clips of him crying in the car on his way to Home Depot. Albeit filled with profanity, his videos are very relatable, and they do make me laugh. A few weeks ago, I felt like I was a special guest on his YouTube channel as my boyfriend and I finally addressed the bowing boards on my front porch. I had ignored them all summer and tried to pretend that they would just go back to normal. I was wrong, obviously.

I've peeled away enough layers of projects on this house by now to know that if I prepare for a one-day project, it will double at the very least. My front porch was no exception. As we ri...

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I never would have expected that in my life I would think so much about floors. At some point, something ignited within me that now causes me to examine the floors inside practically every building I enter and compare them against the floors in my own home. Most of my floors are pine, and I like them well enough, but I am jealous of beautiful old maple boards. Pine is a softwood, so they scratch and scuff easily, though it doesn't bother me too much. I try to find the silver linings, like how they pop and creak in places when I walk on them—I honestly love that they have that rustic charm. They certainly aren't perfect; nails pop out in places and the boards are further apart than I'd like, allowing for dirt and dog hair to get into all of the seams (but of course not far enough apart for the vacuum to fit into!) Still, they've held up fairly well over the years and make sense in my little house.

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I recently met some folks who moved to the area a few years ago, and were telling me about how they took part in a townwide survey-type project regarding well water testing. I don't know all of the details, but it sounded like they were invited to participate in a free testing as part of a research project regarding well water in their area. It sounded fairly simple; they had to collect some samples, send them off, and wait for the results to come back in a few weeks. 

One of my favorite parts of my house is that it has its own well and the water straight out of the tap tastes so good. I've never given much thought beyond how good it tastes, and never wondered why. But after talking to these people about their well water testing project, it got me thinking: I have never had my well water tested in the twelve years I've lived in my house. I know for sure when I bought it, there was some sort of disclosure regarding the well water testing and that the results didn't show anything abnormal, but I can't recall when that testing actually took place prior to me purchasing my house.

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