Do-it-Yourself Home Improvement 101: Resources
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Do-it-yourself (DIY) home improvement projects need not evolve into a horrific nightmare. This week, we’ve compiled a few DIY home design considerations and we reviewed three popular do-it-yourself home improvement Web sites. With the right resources and exacting how-to guidance, you can be sure that your next renovation is one that you can gloat about.
DIY Considerations
Before you start perusing the millions of sites with do-it-yourself home improvement ideas, and are too carried away, there are several practicalities to consider:
• What needs repair right away?
• Realistically, how much labor can you handle?
• How much money is available for the do-it-yourself home improvement budget?
• Can the family live through the construction chaos?
Popular Do-it-Yourself Home Improvement Resources
However, for the sake of argument— let’s say your domicile is just fine, and that you want to make a few green home improvements. Where can you find comprehensive do-it-yourself home improvement project ideas and information? We evaluated three very popular sites:
• DoItYourself.com
• HGTV.com
• HousePlansandMore.com
Sites were graded for underlying information value, navigation ease and topics. We compared each site for the quality of their green home and eco-friendly home design information. Here’s what we found:
DoItYourself Site Review
Although, DoItYourself has a comprehensive list of do-it-yourself home improvement projects, 50 percent of the articles provide very little information value. In other words, many articles are promotional texts devised to get visitors to click ads. Despite the site’s cluttered ad content, the growing video library of do-it-yourself projects is promising.
HGTV Site Review
HGTV is another site with an abounding list of categories and home design topics. At times, the navigation feels flummoxing. Unfortunately, the site is heavy on sponsored advertising. As for eco-friendly DIY home design tips, HGTV maintains a green blog with vague resources (a little disappointing).
HousePlansandMore Site Review
HousePlansandMore features a straightforward site, chock full of comprehensive home design and do it yourself home improvement projects. After visiting the site’s home maintenance library, an article about turning the home green was quite impressive and typical of the site’s quality information. Unique and unlike the other popular sites, HousePlansandMore’s articles offer a complete blueprint of how to get started on the project at hand.
Meanwhile, after you consider which do it yourself home improvement project you have the capacity to complete, remember to do your homework: Compare supply costs with a minimum of three online and retail stores.
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