Posts with tag home renovations

Giuliana Rancic and Bill Rancic Sell Mansion for Big Profit

Bill Rancic, winner of the first Apprentice TV series, and his 36-year-old E! News co-host wife, Giuliana Rancic, just sold their renovated mansion in Hinsdale, Ill., for a major profit three months after moving in, and one month after selling a five-room Chicago condo for a profit. The Rancics, stars of the Style... Continue Reading »

Frank Lloyd Wright House Restored for Sale

A portion of Frank Lloyd Wright's most elaborate and largest prairie-style home, the Avery Coonley Estate, has hit the market for $2.89 million after a decade of extensive restoration. The five-bedroom, five-bath manor, one of several buildings on the original Coonley Estate, sits on a bank of the Des Plaines River in the... Continue Reading »

Top Home Improvement Projects for Summer

Betsy Taylor and her husband decided to embark on a major home improvement project one winter: renovating their kitchen in Portland, Maine. "We hadn't planned on redoing the floors, but after three weeks of tracked in Old Man Winter, the contractor replaced it at no additional cost," she says. "While it was nice to have... Continue Reading »

HGTV's 'Battle on the Block': Family Time in Jersey

For Episode 6, HGTV's "Battle on the Block" went to the Central New Jersey borough of Eatontown, a quiet 'burb that's home to the Army's soon-to-close Fort Monmouth, the Monmouth Mall and not much else. Three families have three days to redo their family rooms. So who will we root for in this battle? Read on. Continue Reading »

SoCal Remodeling Projects Make Comeback as Economy Improves

Southern California homes are looking good. During the economic free-fall, contractors and builders offered cut-rate services and apparently SoCal citizens responded. And that's helping the remodeling industry make a comeback. A recent L.A.Times story reported that 62 percent of homeowners said they planned to embark on... Continue Reading »

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