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Upgrading your home?

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Winter’s not anywhere close to being over yet, especially tonight with the ice storm that’s currently raging outside, however you’d never know it when you walk around the neighborhood. It seems that at least one house in 10 in undergoing major renovations. In fact, my elderly neighbors home just started being renovated last week.

I don’t where my neighbors or their contractors are getting their products, but if you happen to be upgrading, renovating or having a new home built you might want to take a look at the products at Builders Electronics.

Builders Electronics has been in business since 1955 and they specialize in high quality home products. For example you’ll find Broan/NuTone, Denon, Aiphone, Beam, NEC, Panasonic, Sonance, Pioneer, Music & Sound and M&S Systems in their line of quality brand name products.

If you’re interested in renovating your kitchen and want to have quality products in your new kitchen you might take a look at their line of Broan Range Hoods. Likewise if you’re upgrading your bathroom – take a look at their Nutone Bath Fan Upgrade. They even have bath fans with light light fixtures. You’d never know it was a fan at all.

Builders Electronics also carries several types of Central Vacuum Systems, door chimes, Fans and heaters, Intercoms, Ironing Centers, Kitchen Centers, Medicine cabinets and several other items for the home.

As well as offering quality products they also specialize in custom installations and services such as security/burglar/fire and Access Entry systems, surround sound home theater systems, intercom systems, telephone systems and even surveillance systems.

Just visit their website to view their line of products and look over the services they offer.






Great Garden Combinations

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Japanese maple and Hosta Gold Standard

The year after we landscaped our backyard and created our raised garden beds we purchased a lovely Tamukeyama cutleaf Japanese maple. As you can see from the photo above it’s branches cascade downward, it’s leaves are narrow and delicate and bright burgundy – red most of the growing season. It’s absolutely gorgeous.

It will never be a very big tree. I believe at most it will be five feet tall. At this point it’s only about three feet tall and because it’s branches create a shady area below the tree I decided to grow shade loving plants like the Hosta Sum and Substance that you see growing beside it in the above photo.

The Japanese maple and the light green hosta leaves make a lovely combination don’t they?

I think this year I’m going to try to move a few of my plants around to see if I can create a few more stunning displays of plants that compliment each other beautifully.

What are your favorite plant/color combos in your garden?

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Isn’t it time you accessorized your garden?

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In my part of the world many of us are only dreaming about our gardens since they are still covered in snow or if not covered in snow the ground is still to cold to begin to work in. Still … many of us are probably beginning to think about what we’ll plant in our gardens this year, and if you’re like me your probably getting a little stir crazy indoors.

I certainly can’t wait for Spring to get here!

If you’re a gardener or perhaps hoping to start your first garden this year you’re probably busy making lists of plants you want to get for your garden, and starting some seeds indoors. While plants are the main feature of the garden don’t forget the accessories.

You can give your garden it’s own style or infuse a little more of your personality or even your sense of humor with garden decor an ornaments.

The article that I’m including below talks about how to accessorize your garden. Have you accessorized? I’d love to hear what you’ve done or even see some pictures!

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