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25 Tips to Organize your home!

An organized home is easier to live in — and dramatically easier to sell. When we prepare listings, decluttering and organizing consistently deliver.

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4 Great Activities to for Families to Enjoy During the Holiday Season

Every December, Calgary turns into one big family activity list — millions of lights, a historical village dressed for Christmas past, world-class.

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4 Steps for Increasing Storage Space in Your Bedroom

No matter the size of your bedroom, storage always seems to run out before the belongings do. The good news: with a little planning, you can add real.

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5 Ideas for Decorating Over the Holidays

The tree goes up, the lights go on the eaves — and then what? If you're looking to push past the standard-issue holiday setup this year, here are five

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5 Tips for Making a Small Bathroom Appear Larger

You usually can't make a small bathroom physically bigger — but you can absolutely make it feel bigger. We see this constantly at showings: two.

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Is Aluminum Wiring a Dealbreaker When Buying a Home?

If you're shopping Calgary homes built in the 1960s or 1970s, sooner or later you'll open an offer conversation that includes the words aluminum.

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As Winter Months Approach save $$ on your heating bills

Calgary winters are long, cold, and famously unpredictable — a chinook can swing the temperature dozens of degrees in a day. All of that shows up on.

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5 Tips for Creating a Bathroom that is Uniquely “You”

Your bathroom is the one room where you can be completely yourself — and, come selling day, the room where buyers are quickest to judge. The good news

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Best Date Night Ideas

Date night in Calgary doesn't need to mean the same dinner-and-a-movie on repeat. This city has quietly built one of the best going-out scenes in the.

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Calgary Basement Development Permits

A beautifully finished basement can add real living space and real value — but only if it was developed with permits. We see unpermitted basements on.

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Calgary Christmas Light Displays

Christmas is one of our favourite times of year in Calgary — and one of the best parts is the city's light displays. Grab the hot chocolate and the.

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Christmas Dinner To-Go in Calgary 2020

Christmas dinner in Calgary comes in three flavours: book a restaurant, order the feast to go, or host it yourself. All three can be wonderful — and.

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Discover the Stories Behind Famous Canadian War Memorials: A Family Adventure for Remembrance Day

Remembrance is a quiet act, and one of the most meaningful ways we've found to observe it is by visiting the memorials Canada has built to those who.

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Discover the Ultimate Home Office Setup: Why Calgary Professionals Can't Resist these Workspace Features

Remote and hybrid work changed what Calgary buyers walk into a showing looking for. A spare bedroom "that could be an office" no longer cuts it — the.

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Fall Home Maintenance Checklist

Calgary winters are hard on houses — and our freeze-thaw chinook cycles are harder still. A few focused weekends in the fall protect your home from th

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From Filet to Ribeye: Calgary's Best Steakhouse Selections

Calgary sits in the heart of Alberta cattle country, and it shows on the plate. Steak isn't a trend here — it's civic identity, from white-tablecloth.

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From Nigiri to Sashimi: Calgary's Best Sushi Restaurants for Every Type of Sushi Lover

Calgary is a long way from the ocean, but you wouldn't know it from the sushi. The city's Japanese dining scene has depth in almost every quadrant —.

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Fun Things to Do In Calgary: Battalion Park

Drive west on 17th Avenue toward the edge of the city and look up at the hillside: four giant numbers, laid out in white stones, watching over Calgary

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Fun Things to Do In Calgary: Devonian Gardens

Every city needs an answer to February, and Calgary's is hiding four storeys above Stephen Avenue. Devonian Gardens is an indoor tropical garden on th

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Fun Things to Do In Calgary: Glenbow Museum

Ask us for one cultural stop that explains Calgary — where it came from, who built it, and what it values — and we'll send you to the Glenbow. One of.

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Fun Winter Activities To Do in Calgary

Calgary winters are long — the cities that thrive in them are the ones that go outside anyway, and Calgary does it better than almost anywhere. Skatin

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Gas Ranges vs. Induction: Making the Right Choice for Your Kitchen

Walk through enough Calgary kitchens and you'll hear the same question at the island: gas or induction? Both cook beautifully in the right hands, and.

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How Are Windows Made for Calgary Homes?

Windows are one of the few building components that have to fight Calgary's full weather range — minus-thirty cold snaps, chinook swings, hail, and.

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Outdoor Ice Skating in the City of Calgary

Few things say Calgary winter like skating outdoors — river valley air, a frozen lagoon, and the whole outing costing exactly nothing. The City.

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Poly B Plumbing: Is Your Dream Home at Risk?

Grey, flexible, and hiding behind the drywall of thousands of Calgary-area homes: Poly-B plumbing is one of the most common red flags we see on home.

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Radon Gas in Calgary, What you need to know

Radon is the health risk Calgary homeowners are most likely to have never tested for. It's an invisible, odourless radioactive gas that occurs.

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Renovation Returns- How much will you get back?

Every renovation conversation eventually arrives at the same question: how much of this will we get back when we sell? The honest answer is that it.

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Selling your Calgary House during the Holiday Season

Conventional wisdom says to take your Calgary home off the market in December and wait for spring. We disagree — some of the smoothest sales we handle

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Simple Ways to Create a More Attractive Television Space

The television is usually the most-used feature in a living space and the least attractive thing in it — a black rectangle trailing cords across an.

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The Delightful Lilac Festival in Calgary: A Blossoming Celebration

Every city has one day when a neighbourhood shows you exactly who it is. In Calgary, that day belongs to 4th Street. The Lilac Festival — the beloved.

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The Modern Touch: Decorating Tips to Update Your Home's Style

Most homes don't need a renovation to feel current — they need a refresh. The difference between "dated" and "updated" often comes down to a weekend's

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Top Tacos in Cowtown: Calgary's Best Taco Spots

Calgary built its food reputation on beef, but ask us where to take visitors for a casual, guaranteed-great meal and the answer is usually tacos. The.

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Transform Your Living Space: Budget-Friendly DIY Home Staging Secrets Revealed!

Professional staging works, but it isn't the only way to get there. Most of what makes a staged home photograph well and show well comes down to.

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Vermiculite Insulation

Open the attic hatch in an older Calgary home and you may find loose, pebble-like granules — shiny, lightweight, grey-brown to silvery-gold — poured.

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Yeehaw! Saddle Up for Stampede Season in Calgary: Tips and Tricks for a Great Time

Every July, Calgary trades business casual for boots and denim, and for ten days the whole city runs on pancakes and country music. We've lived throug

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