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Ten Convenience Built-Ins That'll Save Your Busy Household Hundreds Of Hours Each Year
Planning to remodel, repair or build a new home? Looking for
some terrific features to include that can save you tons of time
in shortcuts, efficiencies and saved steps? We can help! We
started collecting over 1,000 uncommon, affordable convenience
built-ins in 1998, when we first began writing books and
consulting to help people have truly extraordinary -- but
affordable -- homes. Here are some of our favorite ideas that'll
change your life via the time they save you. Add any of these to
your next project, and you'll be on your way toward creating a
home that's truly beyond the ordinary!
* A shallow closet or weatherproof cabinet at every outdoor hose
faucet, for storing a hose at an easy-to-reach height where it
will stay relatively clean, out of sight and out of the way. No
more risk of tripping over a hose left in a heap on the ground!
(And even recoiling and flat hoses can be awkward and dirty to
move from faucet to faucet, especially if they're stored
outdoors.) This makes gardening a snap, as well as hosing down
the deck, patio or outdoor furniture, or washing windows. You'll
also want flooring inside that prevents the unavoidable drips
from encouraging mold.
* A non-porous, nonskid, self-leveling garage floor coating, so
that soil and oil can easily be hosed away. (If you have a drain
in the floor and flooring that slopes toward it, use a similar
coating that's not self-leveling.)
* A sewing machine permanently plugged in and set up on a desk
or inside a well-lit closet or alcove. Be sure there's space
behind the machine for the fabric from large projects to
accumulate.
* Remote-controlled window shades, especially on hard-to-reach
windows or skylights. Choose among remote controls that can be
operated manually; via a timer or photocell; or through any
on-site or off-site computer, personal digital assistant or cell
phone. Besides being safer than attempting to reach
out-of-the-way shades by hand, easy-to-maneuver shades help
control light and heat in a room, minimize fading of a room's or
closet's contents, and the automatic or off-site controls can
make an empty house appear occupied.
* Dedicated space for wrapping gifts that's near where you store
your wrapping supplies and tools. No more hauling stuff around!
* A doorbell
intercom outside the door that can be answered from
every telephone in the house (also via your cell phone while
you're out). No more dropping everything to run to answer the
door!
* Shallow shelves with only one row deep of canned or dry goods,
medicines, supplies, tools or equipment, for instant
identification of and access to whatever's stored. These can
often be tucked into a space that's otherwise unused.
* At least one full bathroom on every level of the house.
* A laundry chute from closets, cabinets or bathrooms to a
laundry room on a lower level. No more hauling dirty laundry
down stairs when gravity will do the job! And no more dropping
items on the way to the laundry room that you might trip over!
* A pot-filler faucet attached to a wall near your cooking
burners, that swivels into various positions as well as out of
the way. No more moving heavy pots of water from the sink to the
stove!
Like this article? Then you'll love our books chock-full of
uncommon, affordable convenience built-ins that increase your
quality of life and your home's resale value! We also offer a
free e-book at www.extraordinaryhomes.com: The 34 ExtraOrdinary
Home Principles: Over 70 Fabulous, Affordable, Innovative Ideas
That'll Improve Your Life and WOW You!
Carol Abrahamson consults, writes and makes presentations about
more than 1,000 of these fabulous features that can improve your
life, add value to your home and make you the talk of the town.
She spent years researching them via thousands of sources just
so you can quickly and easily use them to create your
affordable, extraordinary Home of Your Dreams™. Learn more about
her work via www.extraordinaryhomes.com or
carol@extraordinaryhomes.com.
© Copyright 2005 by Carol Abrahamson/ExtraOrdinary Homes. All
rights reserved.
About the author:
Carol Abrahamson consults, writes and makes presentations about
more than 1,000 of these fabulous features that can improve your
life, add value to your home and make you the talk of the town.
She spent years researching them via thousands of sources just
so you can quickly and easily use them to create your
affordable, extraordinary Home of Your Dreams™. Learn more about
her work via www.extraordinaryhomes.com or
carol@extraordinaryhomes.com.
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