Social media can be a bit overwhelming. You're working hard to stay afloat. You've reinvented your business by adding new products and services. You spend more time working on proposals, beating the bushes to keep work in the pipeline, and trying to do more with less staff. And now you hear that you should be more active in social media. Well, you're hearing it right. And while you're using your...

A remodeler once told me people who recently purchased a home and those who have lived in their homes for four years are the most inclined to remodel. Well, I hit the four-year point of owning my condo one year ago. And coincidentally I have been seriously considering doing some updates to my unit for the past year. In honor of National Remodeling Month, I’m finally pulling the trigger on...

Do more with less, do more with less .  In tough times, those words seem to ring through our work lives, our bank accounts, our home lives.  With smaller, recession-style budgets, designers are doing more with less in the kitchen, and the results range from bizarre to brilliant. Treehugger expands on small kitchens , and uses the founder's 420-sq.-ft. apartment as a model for new...