whetheryou rent or own, your home should be a refuge from life's stressors, somewhereyou can go and simply "be." your home also should reflect yourpersonality. the pictures below capture some of my favorite design elements inour current home. it is almost impossible to take myself or life too seriouslywhen surrounded by [...]

i don't know about you, but summer is our busiestseason for overnight guests. colorado issuch an amazing place that our friends love to visit, and of course, we love toshow off our great state. i thought i'd share sometips on how to make overnight guests feel welcome in your home.

mostof these tips i've learned through business travel, but [...]

you know it is time to take abreak from a blog topic when you're starting to annoy yourself with your ownposts, so this will be my last post about the visual arts for a while. it isgoing to be tough for me to refrain from such posts since, if you have beenreading my posts or have taken a peek at my website -- [...]

Can you really get a good deal on a HUD home in Denver? I would say 75% of all new buyers I meet with tell me they want to buy a HUD home and a HUD home only. I assume that so many buyers think a HUD home is the way to go from advice they have heard from a friend or the media. And while buying a HUD home, essentially a government [...]

i hope you all had a fabulous weekend and were able to take advantage of the many happenings in denver, including the first friday art walks, the capitol hill people's fair, the chalk art festival on larimer square, the rockies games, etc. in true denver fashion, the weather was predictably unpredictable. i took advantage of the hot and [...]

i've been doing periodic posts on individual galleries and art districts, butsince the artist talent pool in denver is so deep, it will take me a while to get to them all in such detail, so i wanted to do a quick post to remind you that a number of first friday art walks will be held tomorrow tonight. while the gallery and studio hours vary, [...]

The FHA Energy Efficient Mortgage. It certainly isn't a mortgage type that gets a lot of press but the more I learn about it, the more I'm convinced it definitely should. According to Preston Luckett, loan consultant with Guild Mortgage, the FHA Energy Efficient Mortgage (EEM) is a normal FHA loan where the borrower finances 100% of the [...]