Five Ways to Tell Your Home Needs Improvement - Page 2

Your Trees and Bushes are Dead or they've Been Sleeping for a Very Long Time: Ah, landscaping. It's something no one really wants to do: some women might even get married just so they never have to mow another lawn. It can get bothersome, causing allergies to flare up and insects to crawl out of bushes and onto your arms, but landscaping is a key in keeping your house appealing. Dead trees and dead bushes make a yard look neglected, as if you are only a few days away from using it as a parking spot for your car. Instead of keeping a lawn full of dead shrubs, uproot them and give new trees and new bushes a chance to thrive

Your Doors Don't Lock and You Don't Know Karate: Locks aren't unbreakable: sometimes they simply stop working. This may happen to your front door, your garage door, or the sliding glass door that goes out to your backyard. Wherever this happens, it's time to invest in a new door, and do it immediately. A door that doesn't lock is about as effective as a clock that doesn't tell time: a door that doesn't lock can make your home vulnerable to robbery and your family vulnerable to danger. Replacing a door because it doesn't lock isn't merely a matter of home improvement, it's a matter of home preservation.

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Marie Jordan is the senior editor for ETO Doors. Someone who changes her mind every five minutes, her house is in a perpetual state of home improvement.

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