How can Home Renovation Help to Lower Stress?

Vacations introduce their own stress. First, there is the planning and trying to book airfare and accommodations with an eye to the budget. After arriving at the destination, there are more choices to make regarding recreation and not exceeding the spending limits. If it is a new destination there is the extra stress of not wasting a moment of this precious time.

A home renovation, however, can change the way a family looks at life on a daily basis. Imagine returning home from work each day to a yard where something is always in bloom. Meals and moments of relaxation can be enhanced with an outdoor dining room set in stone and surrounded by some of nature’s most beautiful and aromatic plants. A water feature in the newly designed garden can offer a perfect place for romantic evenings or practicing yoga postures. The entire family, not to mention the value of the home, will benefit from the addition of inviting green spaces.

 The Landscape Design Center can help make all this a reality. Design packages are custom prepared, because each yard is different, and clients are always a part of the process. And best of all, home renovation will not cost nearly as much as a great vacation. Most mortgage holders are required by law to offer refinancing for renovations, and that means the interest is entirely deductible. Vacations can be a lot of fun, but a home renovation can add joy and beauty to life every day of the year.

Job Site Recycling
All extra material and debris is removed from all job sites. We take the debris back to our property where it is separated into different materials. Concrete goes in one pile, fill dirt in another, reusable top soil in another, and finally, wood. Wood, brick, and stone in good condition is kept and reused for applicable landscaping jobs. Other materials that can still be used are donated to the public.

Office Recycling
Although we have tried to make our office as paperless as possible, a true paperless office is a fiction. When dealing with customers and some vendors, paper comes into our office in greater quantities than we would like. We eliminate the printing of useless faxes by having all incoming faxes come into a computer digitally. We can then view and print only what is necessary. If scrap paper is reusable, it gets turned into message pads and note pads. Bills and invoicing is done electronically through email; paper invoices are used only on request. We pay our own bills online whenever this option is possible. In addition, we recycle all of our computer ink cartridges. Old electronic equipment is donated to local community centers, and when unwanted, taking to electronic recycling centers.

Shop Recycling
Going green in the shop was one of our most difficult endeavors, but we are so happy to have completed the recycling programs in this part of the business so we can be a totally green company. Part of process was making employee recycling mandatory. All of our employees are required to recycle not only work-related materials, but also, all personal materials.

Professional landscape design uses the skills of those trained to think of and see details in the landscape that the untrained eye often misses. They also know of many varieties of plants and how they look together, rather than simply the conditions they grow in. Since they go about designing with an artist’s eye, they are able to bring all their knowledge together to make the landscape into a living work of art.

Professional landscape designers not only work with “new” properties; they can rejuvenate old landscapes as well. If you have a landscape that’s just “not doing it” for you, trust a professional designer to know just what’s lacking and how to fix it. Sometimes the difference between lackluster and exciting is simply a matter of knowing what to put where. The addition of a few plants, a new walkway, or some strategically-placed lighting can work wonders when their positioning is done by someone with an experienced eye.

It may be tempting to do your own designing, but it will soon become apparent that there is actually a lot of study involved in making a good landscape design. Like an oil painter, a landscape designer spends many hours and even years learning all about the medium. Someone doing his first landscape design is likely to end up with results similar to someone doing an oil painting for the first time. It may be passable, but not likely to have the Rembrandt-level quality you’re after.

You can have great results the first time by hiring a landscape designer who’s already a seasoned professional. In the Annapolis, Baltimore, Eastern Shore, and DC areas, you can get professional landscape design not only done well, but economically, too at http://www.thelandscapedesigncenter.com. Their professionals come to the property, so they see the actual layout and growing conditions. They will take notes and measurements, and sometimes even pictures so they get a good idea of what needs to be done. An estimate for a full landscape design is then presented. Once they get the go-ahead from you, the actual plan is drawn up and you’re on your way to the perfect landscape for your property.

We also opened a new Division of the company on a more retail note…….called ‘Tchotchke Pots’, where we take recycled wares and use them as planters.  It’s A LOT of fun and we have received excellent feedback.

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If you would like to come see what we have you can THIS WEEKEND AT:

West Annapolis 2nd Sunday Neighborhood Green Market

This Sunday, November 8 – 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

OUR FABULOUS HOLIDAY MARKET!

A terrific assortment of holiday gifts for Green & Local giving!

More great dealers join in to bring you the greenest gifts for your holiday shopping! Buy local and support independent artists and merchants featuring plants, green craft, art and vintage & recycled antique wares at Annapolis’ newest, hippest Market!

Complimentary I SHOPPED LOCAL & GREEN gift tags!

Bring the pooch, the kids, your folks, your friends!

Giddings Avenue between Ridgely Avenue & Annapolis Street

For directions & photos go to www.homegrownandgreen.com or scroll down

It’s our last Green Market of the year! If you haven’t shopped us yet, COME NOW!!

And look who’ll be exhibiting!

Bay Bees
Wonderful Eastern Shore honey and beeswax candles of all shapes & sizes!

Blue Stallion Art Studio
Recycled bird houses & fun oil paintings

Bon Vivant Antiques
www.bonvivantantiques.com

Bronwyn’s Biscuits
www.bronwynsbiscuits.com
Delectable homemade treats for dogs!

Cedarwood Soaps – Karen Danella
www.cedarwoodsoaps.com
Handmade from scratch all-natural soaps

Charlie Dodge Produce
Lamps & Clocks made from recycled bicycle parts

Chesapeake Estate Services
www.ChesapeakeEstate.com
Great vintage finds from far and wide!

Cross the Street
Vintage, recycled & repurposed furnishings & furniture

Freedom Bakery
www.thefreedombakery.com
Gluten-free breads, cookies & cupcakes that everyone will love!

Galena Blooms
www.galenablooms.com

Luxurious Silks by Jackie Handley

Heather Hinkel’s Grand Paws
www.GrandPawsAnnapolis.com

Honeywell – PeakRewards
www.BGESmartEnergy.com/PeakRewards

Ken Hull Custom Wood Working
Reproduction furniture made from recycled lumber

jb.made – Jill Bellenger
Fair trade and recycled jewelry
www.jbmade.blogspot.com

Landscape Design Center
Plants & more – fabulous!
www.thelandscapedesigncenter.com

Monzo Studio
Hand drawn & framed downtown scenes
and portraits while you wait!

Paperdreamer – Janet Stepp
www.paperdreamer.etsy.com

Peruvian Trend Co.
Fine handknitted Alpaca wool accessories for women & children by Peruvian artists

Plum Lucky Vintage Modern & Fun Objects

Pralines by the Bay
Delectable & delicious breads & pastries!

Janine Reed’s Whimsical Knits
Terrific knit hats for Kids

Regal Roosts
www.regalroosts.com
Incredible Birdhouses and storage chests

Sawdust & Lace woodenware

Susan Senesi Studio
Fish & crab prints; House & Pet portraits by commission

Larry Taylor Woodworking

Terra Joy LLC
Fruit plants & shrubs, living & dried wreaths,herb blends & spices and propagation devices

Serrah Thomas Jewelry Designs

Twin Pixie Studios
www.twinpixiestudios.typepad.com
Found object jewelry & recycled wares

Village Antiques

West Annapolis ArtWorks
Super mosaics, earth friendly frames and crafts for kids!
www.westannframing.com

Wimsey Cove Framing & Art
Works by local artists & reproduction historical maps
www.annapolisframing.com

Plus Free Face Painting by Crystalooneys!
Complimentary Seated Massage by Ridgely Retreat!

Go to www.homegrownandgreen.com for photos & directions!

DIRECTIONS TO THE MARKET

Giddings Avenue between Ridgely Avenue & Annapolis Street

From Route 50, take the ROWE BOULEVARD EXIT. At the first traffic light (you will see the USNA Football Stadium on the right at this intersection) TURN LEFT onto Melvin Avenue. Go straight through the first stop light and at the next street TURN RIGHT onto Annapolis Street.

Park wherever you like – the Market is on the next corner.

The West Annapolis 2nd Sunday Neighborhood Green Market returns in April 2010!