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I have used plug ins in every outlet, sprays, and tried just about everything. My house doesn’t stink, but I want it to have a really nice smell everyday to it. I’ve walked into people’s homes before and their house just smells really good and they aren’t burning anything, or have anything plugged in the walls. It’s almost like a natural really good smell that their house smells like it all of the time. Does anyone have any suggestions or anythign to use? To me, my house just smells like a house and nothing special.

There are ac filter fresheners that you can use that nobody can see. They come in a variety of scents and literally stick right to your ac filter and circulate the scent throughout the house as long as the unit is running. Usually in the ac filter section of your local grocer. See the link below for an example.

http://www.amazon.com/Freshener-Wildflower-Potpourri-Furnace-Filter/dp/B002BOX6RW

We just bought a house and its pretty old.. currently you walk through a small hallway into a living room.. to the right is a master bedroom, and the left side is divided into a kitchen and bathroom on left side and 2 smaller bedrooms (one after another) on the right side. (so, the kitchen has a door opening to one bedroom). We are thinking about taking down the wall to connect the bedroom to the kitchen as well as take a portion of the preceding bedroom also to make a "great" room. But if this is done, the new bedrooms will be at the front of house, and person entering will have to walk down a hallway to get to the back of the house to a living area. Is this a good idea? or should we keep it the way it is?? oh, we are also planning on adding french doors to the back of the house (at the back of the new "great" room) which will open to a new deck and the big backyard. will it make property difficult to sell if entry is to a long hallway?
i forgot to add that our driveway runs the length of the house. We would probably park our car at the end of the driveway and use the rear deck to "great" room entrance 99% of the time

Hi ‘May I’. Ignoring the structural implications of reconfiguring your first floor, I got distracted when you said "big back yard". If your backyard is big enough for you to add on into it, I think that is what i (personally) would do. The long hallway thing seems as off-putting to me as it does to you… in the sense of reselling. The last thing on earth that you’ll want your house to be at sale time is "odd" the second one opens the front door. Beyond that, I don’t think it would cost you any more to add on than it would cost reconfigure…You won’t have to reconfigure the plumbing or electrical, re engineer any existing structure and maybe more importantly, have your dream compromised by having to work within any structural limitations that the existing building may impose (i.e, " you can’t move THAT wall" and etc). Adding on may well actually be less expensive too. It FREQUENTLY is.

Have fun and don’t overspend your market.

I would like to get a blueprint of my home, i.e., the supporting studs, water lines in the foundation, what walls I can actually tear down without structurally damaging my home. We are wanting to redo the entire inside of the house. I know we will need permits for some of the work, but I’d like to see the actual blueprints of my home before I go any further. Any and all help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks.

I believe if you go to you local city hall they have all that sort of information.

I can’t garantee what I say is true because I’ve only ever seen that people go there in movies for the prints of their houses. lol. Like movies are a great source for information. But it’s worth a shot just call and ask and if your lucky and they don’t have it they may know where to find it! Check the records department.

How did this happen in the United States of America? The House is passing the senate health bill without taking a role call vote on the measure? I thought the Constitution required the House to vote on their version and the Senate voted on their version and the two houses of Congress worked together to come up with a bill both could pass. What did I miss? How can this happen?

MOST bills are passed by a voice vote. Roll call votes are only used when the vote is very close, or when the party in control wants to stick members with their vote (I mean, later, in campaign ads, they can say "Congressman So-and-so voted AGAINST Mom and apple pie".

We moved into our house around 18 months ago.

I clean every single day including polishing the wooden furniture and cleaning my wooden floor. I clean the kitchen at least twice a day (the floor just once though).

I just can’t seem to get that "homely" smell. I have got plug ins in the living room and one of those squirty air freshners in the kitchen.

When I walk in the house I want it to smell lovely like it does when I walk into my mum’s house.

Any tips?

sprinkle baking soda or baking soda based carpet cleaners before you vacuum.
Heat white vinegar, and leave it in open pans.
Both of these will achieve similar purposes they will absorb foul odors, and emit a "homey" aroma, possibly the very one you’re looking for.

My house has the master bedroom on one side and the other two bedrooms on the other side. The airhandler is in the attic almost in the middle of the house. On the guest side of the house it is 10 degrees colder now that it is getting pretty cold out. That is ALOT.
I have went in the attic and inspectes the system and it does not *seem* to be looking, but I dont know what to look for.
Thank for any help.
Why?

If nothing seems wrong with it, you can always install an in-line duct fan to help blow more warm air to the colder side. They are inexpensive and pretty easy to install. Check out Lowe’s- they had the best price when I bought one a couple months ago, and they may be able to give you tips on installing it.

In school, I have to create and ‘sell’ a house that will withstand a natural disaster. I got the natural disaster Volcanoes. So I was wondering, will a granite wall melt because of the heat? I was also wondering what other specifications Iwould need to create such a house.

PS I was also wondering if fire resistant paint would keep a house from burning from the heat.

Depends on how big the eruption is and how far from it you are.
As a rule of thumb, no house will withstand one of these. The house will get either buried, burnt or blown apart (alliteration, fancy that). Suggest you find another disaster or specify some factors you want considered.

What i would like to know is the feasibility of a two storeyed green house, and if possible give suitable recommendations for the typical materials also.

green house gases are a phenomenon of global warming
its all of the fossil fuels
that makes the environment into a burial ground

because i have house plants and i have a Aquarium .

none. The house plants need oxygen not water. they will actually suffocate, die and simply destroy the water and the way the aquarium looks.

I am trying to sell my home and my realtor wants me to ask $73 per square foot when the lowest asking price in the subdivision is $98 per square foot. The house is 5 years old, all brick, on a beautiful lot with a creek running through it, and nice on the inside. The flip side is it is the only 2 story house in the subdivision, and is 2300 square feet when the other houses for sale in this subdivision have about half that square footage. I would like to know how much less our house is actually worth being the biggest house in the neighborhood?

Just for curiosity sake– check your address with Zillow.com– also check the county assessor files– here we can do that online. I have had good realtors– but I don’t trust them all. After all– the higher the sale, the more the realtor gets– but also– the more sales– the more the realtor gets.
Something to think about.
good luck