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1 " A $100,000 kitchen won't turn a $200,000 condo into a $300,000 resale. "
― Jamie Gold
2 " Your new kitchen should look like it was "born there." That doesn't mean it has to be the exact same style as the house. (You can put a modern kitchen into a Victorian, for example.) It just means that it has to complement the spaces around it. "
3 " Radon may be one danger you haven’t heard of. Like carbon monoxide, it’s undetectable without a sensor. It is a slower-acting gas that forms naturally in soil, rocks, and groundwater but is the second leading cause of lung cancer after cigarette smoke. "
― Jamie Gold , Wellness by Design: A Room-by-Room Guide to Optimizing Your Home for Health, Fitness, and Happiness
4 " The latest, most wellness-focused advance to smart home lighting is called humancentric or circadian lighting. "
5 " Nobody likes the "A" word, but everyone ages. You can have an aging in place master suite that looks like a resort hotel, rather than a rehab hospital room. "
6 " your tile should have a dynamic coefficient of friction (DCOF) of greater than 0.42; you can find this in the manufacturer’s specifications. "
7 " Redwood costs more but doesn’t need to be treated for insects or weather; pine does. Cedar is another weather- and pest-resistant wood, but it is also expensive. "