Refinishing your hardwood can be a relatively quick way to give your home a much-needed makeover.  If you consider yourself a handy homeowner, you can try hardwood refinishing on your own.  If you do not fall into this category, don’t worry.  Local hardwood refinishing professionals can restore your floor in no time, giving your home an impressive and effective new look. Preparation – Whether you hire a company or choose to do it yourself, there is some preparation required when you are going to tackle a hardwood refinishing project.  All furniture will need to be removed from the area,...

What was once seen as two separate worlds, the world of alternative medicine and western medicine, are now seen to be more like parts of a Venn diagram with a common center. Advanced massage therapy treatments can actually work in conjunction with traditional western medicine. Advanced massage therapy treatments are to be used more like a toothbrush and less like a bandage, meaning that regular, consistent use is preferable to an infrequent, quick-fix treatment. Scheduled appointments with talented massage therapists can offer you a wide variety of advanced massage treatments, including visceral therapy, structural integration, craniosacral massage, reiki, myofascial...

  Hotels have always been the solution to overnight trips while on vacation; however, seasonal rentals have become more common for several reasons. Whether it be greater convenience, cost, or higher luxury, seasonal rentals have many advantages over traditional hotel stints. More Space for the Cost: With a hotel, you pay a pretty penny to have the opportunity to stay in a room with most likely only 2 beds, a tv, and a bathroom. Whereas seasonal rentals often include an entire house, or at least the entire floor of a house. Since seasonal rentals are not owned by a...

There are some technological advances that put old methods far behind, but oddly enough, that hasn’t been the case with transmissions. Just because automatic ones came along doesn’t mean the manual, a.k.a. stick shift, has completely left the scene. Chances are, however, when you learned to drive, you weren’t taught how to drive a stick shift. You may want to find out what you’ve been missing, but you are afraid of buying a car with a manual transmission and having it end up in an auto body shop the first week. Or, you may be considering traveling to a...