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Summer Home
Updates To Enhance
Your Space

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s your house in need of a seasonal
overhaul? Get your home in shape with
these easy tasks and upgrades, and
enjoy the warmer months.
• Top-to-bottom cleaning: In each
room, start at the top and work your way
to the bottom. Crumbs will inevitably fall
from kitchen counters and dust will fly
from fixtures, so clean your floors last so
you don’t have to redo them later.
In the kitchen, circle around the sink,
starting at the right side of your stove and
then move clockwise around the room.
Stoves can be the dirtiest part of the kitch-
en, so ending there prevents the spread of
grease and dirt.
Finally, when it’s time to sweep, hold the
broom with one hand on top of the handle
and the other in the middle. Having a
proper grip on the broom will make each
stroke more effective. Ensure you don’t

miss any dirt by sweeping
from the outside in. Pulling
dirt to the center of the room
will make for easier pick-up.
• Creative upgrades: After Updated appliances can help you streamline kitchen organization.
the garage, the kitchen is tied
with the home office as the
bars to make organization functional and
lighter hues are both in style and perfect
second most cluttered room in the house,
fashionable.
for summer.
according to a Moen survey. Get rid of
A new kitchen sink, when chosen care-
For the first time, Pantone, the world-
clutter by updating features with those that fully, is another update that can reduce the wide standard for color communication,
create a “home” for items that live out in
appearance of clutter. Look for a model
selected two colors of the year: Serenity
the open.
with a low-profile center divider that pro-
and Rose Quartz. The light pastels comple-
For example, when selecting a faucet,
vides the versatility of a double bowl with
ment each other and make for a calm and
choose one with style and function, like
single-bowl functionality. For instance,
soothing design aesthetic. Meanwhile,
the Voss faucet from Moen, which has
those from Moen allow you to fit items like paint maker Sherwin-Williams named
a transitional low-profile design, ideal
pots and cookie sheets across two bowls
Alabaster its 2016 color of the year.
for installation in front of windows or
easily, limiting the visibility of dirty dishes Keeping with the trend of light colors, this
on a kitchen island, and features Reflex
in the sink — which is ideal for open con-
white hue is a nice blank canvas to show-
technology, which allows for easy, secure
cept layouts.
case your summer decor.
docking of the spray wand. The collection
• Color your world: A fresh coat of
A few projects around the home can get
also offers matching accessories like towel
paint can do wonders for a room. And
you set for sunny seasons ahead.

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