{"id":136925,"date":"2010-01-04T18:21:39","date_gmt":"2010-01-04T23:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blisstree.com\/articles\/five-little-home-improvement-projects-for-2010\/"},"modified":"2010-01-04T18:21:39","modified_gmt":"2010-01-04T23:21:39","slug":"five-little-home-improvement-projects-for-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/136925","title":{"rendered":"Five Little Home Improvement Projects for 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re not quite ready to move or you have given up on selling your home for a few years until the market recovers, why not try one of these small home improvement projects to make you feel happier about the house you have? A little project can make a room look a lot nicer and you can always do another little project in the same room a few months later. Repeat the process long enough and you\u2019ll eventually have a new room. (And you won\u2019t have a $20,000 loan out on the project, either.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blisstree.com\/files\/2010\/01\/homeimprovementprojects.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px;border-top: 0px;margin-left: 0px;border-left: 0px;margin-right: 0px;border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"164\" alt=\"home improvement projects\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blisstree.com\/files\/2010\/01\/homeimprovementprojects_thumb.jpg\" width=\"244\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Replace your shabby old hall carpet with laminate flooring. Unless you have a mini mansion, your hall will be small enough that you can keep your costs on this project nice and low. <\/li>\n<li>Take advantage of rebates and government incentives to replace a dented and worn kitchen or laundry room appliance. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsmv.com\/cash-for-appliances\/21364575\/detail.html\">Cash for Appliances<\/a>, which was supposed to start at the end of 2009, is now slated to start in March 2010 for many states. <\/li>\n<li>Paint a wall. If you have a room that needs some color, you can try painting just one wall to make a focal point and leave the rest white or beige. Even with top quality paint and a great brush, you can do this project for under $100.<\/li>\n<li>Add some nice moulding to a room. Chair rail can add a lot of interest very cheaply. Just be sure you make your miter cuts in the right direction. (Yes, I\u2019m telling you this from sad, sad experience.)<\/li>\n<li>Switch out hardware on kitchen cupboard doors or the doors throughout your house. Changing out exterior door hardware has the added bonus of increasing safety and security if you upgrade to better locks and add deadbolts. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Photo: SXC<\/p>\n<p>Post from: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blisstree.com\">Blisstree<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blisstree.com\/articles\/five-little-home-improvement-projects-for-2010\/\">Five Little Home Improvement Projects for 2010<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re not quite ready to move or you have given up on selling your home for a few years until the market recovers, why not try one of these small home improvement projects to make you feel happier about the house you have? A little project can make a room look a lot nicer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}