Happy New Year!

We here at the Love The Home You Have blog, want to extend a hearty Happy Holidays and Happy New Year to all our followers. May this year be the best yet!
Now, let's dig in.
January is the month to make half-hearted proclamations with little or no follow thru.
This year, try making a resolution you can keep! We here at Love The Home You Have, challenge our readers to find one spot in your home that is being underutilized and change it. That's not hard, is it? It doesn't have to be a major overhaul, just something that you notice. That's half the battle right there. Trying to make yourself see something in a different way that you look at every day is a challenge.
You can do it. Email us your before and after photos so we can post them for everyone to marvel at!
Don't get discouraged, start small, then build from there!
We know you can do it!!

Space Saver Idea...Laundry Room

Who needs a whole room? This is a great space saver idea plus is hides the washer and dryer, cleaning products, tools and provides a bit more sound absorption. Yes please!

The Life of Countertops

When I was growing up, everyone had laminate countertops in their kitchen. It was inexpensive, fairly durable and "in." It was the latest and greatest. Now days granite tops most charts as the "need to have" countertop. It's true that granite has a long list of pros and in my opinion, a weak list of cons. That doesn't mean that it's the best and only option for kitchens all across America. Some people can't afford to lay a slab of granite or don't really like the way it looks. Not to mention that granite isn't always the best choice for every design.
Recently I was looking through the new issue of Martha Stewart and in the back was a reader question about kitchen countertops.
Martha listed the materials followed by a pro and con list. Unfortunately she left out a growingly popular material. Quartz surfaces(Caesarstone, Silestone).
So here in the design studio, we put together our own list of countertop options.