Your kitchen is a workshop, and it needs to be lit accordingly, both for ease of use and for safety. But that doesn’t mean it can’t be both functional and beautiful. Choosing the right style and placement of light fixtures is a big part of achieving both goals.

When designing a bathroom renovation, it’s easy to get excited about a new vanity, tub or shower and overlook the impact that lighting plays in making a bathroom both functional and beautiful. But when you think about all the things you do in a bathroom, the importance of…

Electric power companies measure how much electricity and gas you use by taking a monthly reading of the meter on your building or home. You are charged for what you use. For about 100 years, the measure was taken with an electromechanical meter like the Thompson meter—the ones…

Today’s homes are loaded with electronic devices from computers and TVs to appliances and LED lighting. Circuit boards control an ever-growing number of things. Those boards can be weakened by small, repetitive power surges or taken out altogether by large ones.

Small System Spikes Add Up

You may…

If your home or office was built between 1965 and the mid-to-late ’70s, chances are good that aluminum wiring was used for all or part of your electrical service. Aluminum is a good conductor of electricity and when copper prices soared in the mid-’60s, it came into widespread…

With Denver real estate prices skyrocketing, many homeowners are staying put and making the property they already occupy work for them. When that includes adding space, one of the best places to look is right over your head.

Many homes have quite a bit of usable space in…