When you increase the curb appeal of your home, you not only create a space in which you love to spend time, but also give yourself the opportunity to express your personal style. It doesn’t have to cost of a fortune; even small adjustments can have a huge impact on the way you experience your living space. Below are nine things to consider when improving curb appeal and ultimately creating a home that is entirely customized for you! Driveway Gates One of the most dramatic changes you can make to the exterior appearance of your home is adding a driveway gate with a matching fence. This idea is at…
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Choosing the Best Sun Shade Product for Your Home
Adding a cover to your patio area, whether it’s a retractable awning, a simple shade sail, or a freestanding pergola, will increase the usable square footage of your home and give you the opportunity to spend more time enjoying the outdoors. Below we have highlighted ALEKO’s three types of sun shade options; it is our hope that you find the coverage that is most ideal for your home. Retractable Awnings ALEKO Retractable Awnings Awning Origins Retractable awnings are a traditional favorite for sun and rain protection. The first known awnings originated in the Middle East and Africa, where people hung woven fabrics and animal hides on poles to escape the…
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Gear Up for Spring!
With spring on its way, there’s nothing more enticing than getting back outside! While staying inside is restorative during the winter months, the act of getting fresh air literally improves the brain’s ability function. At ALEKO, we’re gearing up for spring with a range of fun and useful outdoor items to get you outside, including inflatable hot tubs, patio furniture, camping gear, fishing equipment, and so much more. A Few Benefits of Going Outside: –Higher levels of oxygen in the brain. We’ve all heard that getting fresh air makes people feel better, but did you know that it has a physiological impact on our brains? The brain is hyper-sensitive to…
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Create Your Dream Desk Space
It makes all the difference to have a place you’re excited to show up to—a work space that brings you excitement, joy, and contentment. If your current desk area leaves you feeling stressed out or if you’re not as productive as you wish, then an aesthetic change could be just what you need. Having a clear, yet inspiring work space is essential for increasing productivity and improving your overall wellbeing. Even a subtle difference in atmosphere can have a huge impact on the way you feel about your work. Clear it Out The only sure way to transform your work space is to start fresh. Remove everything from the top…
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5 Storage Solutions to Declutter Your Home
Words like “shirts” and “nick-nacks” and “books” don’t capture the feelings that we associate with our favorite items. A tee shirt from a trip to Japan in 1980 or a stack of yearbooks hauled from home to home—we keep these items because their presence instills within us a deep feeling of nostalgia. According to Randy Frost, a professor at Smith College in Massachusetts, “our possessions all have magical qualities. Many, if not most, of the things we keep have an essence that goes beyond the physical character of the object.” From personal experience, many of us know this to be absolutely true. While our possessions may bring us great joy,…
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Create a Backyard Oasis – On a Budget!
Why the Backyard? Now that winter has come, you probably can’t wait for the warm summer heat to arrive and get outdoors again. The sunshine and warm blue skies, fresh air – what more could you ask for? How about creating that backyard oasis where you can kick back and relax and entertain a family friend or two? ALEKO can help you create a beautiful living area that’s not only comfortable, functional and stylish, but affordable too. Other than the occasional barbeque and gardening, backyards are the most neglected part of any home. However, when the weather permits, you can use the outdoors effectively for entertaining guests and hosting parties…
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What is an Ash Vacuum and Why You Need One
An Ash Vacuum is specifically design for vacuuming the ash or dust left from the fire in a grill or a fireplace. It is designed to clean up your mess efficiently without melting under the potential heat of the ash particles. Our ALEKO ash vacuum is one of our top selling products during the cold months. This is a highly effective solution for fireplace ash build up. It makes cleaning these typically difficult messes, easy. Manually cleaning up the ash is very time consuming, dirty and also very dusty. The mess can easily spread around the house if you aren’t careful. Breathing in ash and dust can be an irritant and hazardous…
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7 Amazing Health Benefits of Home Saunas
If you have been thinking about getting a sauna for your home, read this article to understand the potential benefits you and your family could reap from regular sauna use. Flush Toxins Most people do not have the time to exercise or have the chance to sweat on a regular basis. A Sauna can heat your body to a higher temperature. This leads to dilation of blood vessels which cause an increase of blood flow to the skin. The sweat glands become activated and start producing sweat to cool down the body. The deep sweat helps reduce lead levels, copper, zinc, nickel, mercury and toxins from the body. Help Lose Weight and…
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Electronic Digital Safe For Securing Precious Valuables
Digital safe is the ideal choice for the protection of your valuables. An electronic digital safe is secured with an electronic digital lock. It is very easy to fit inside your wardrobe, place near your bed, or underneath your desk that meets your needs. A digital safe is perfect for everyone who wants to protect their precious valuables but does not want to leave the key behind. Digital safe is specially developed to offer secure storage & easy access to important files, documents besides other valuables for providing maximum protection ultimately widen the range of your valuables. These are simple to operate with an easy to use digital keypad and…
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Facts To Know While Choosing Artificial Plants
Brighten up your interior/exterior life with Artificial Plants Bring the beauty of gardening to your room and enhance the interior of your home or office through artificial plants with a feeling of realistic look. Today artificial plant has become almost a medium of fine art as they will not be dropping dead leaves and these plants are basically maintenance free. Think of an artificial plant placed in a corner and still look just as healthy after a year in that same location. Today they have become almost a fine art as they look the same like real plants made of high-quality products, which are not easily recognized unless someone touches…
