How Do You Choose Lighting For Your Bathroom?

You need light in your bathroom. Unless you have a skylight in your bathroom and tons of windows, you need great lighting. Where do you place the lighting is the question?

Over the Sink

Both sides of the mirror.

Over the tub.

In the shower.

What type of Light Fixtures do you install?

It all depends on your style. What kind of person are you? What do you see yourself surrounded around? What colors do you love to decorate with? If you had a choice where would you live? What’s your favorite type of restaurant?

How you answered the questions above, is your Design Style. If you don’t understand your answers here is a link to help you choose.

http://www.houzz.com/ideabooks/25171951/list/houzz-quiz-whats-your-decorating-style

• Modern
• Contemporary
• Traditional
• Funky
• Shabby Chic
• Southwestern
• Industrial
• Tuscan
• Medieval
• French
• Asian
• Zen

If you have the extra money to add windows for natural lighting in your bathroom, that’s a Home Run. Natural lighting in your bathroom is always great. You could do a lot by placing and installing the perfect fixtures, but having a large window or two in your bathroom could give you the perfect Natural Light everyone desires. Before you begin your project sit down and plan out what exactly you want to do in your bathroom. After you have thought about what you have in mind, plan out the perfect spots to install lighting. Let your electrician and or remodeler know. They will be more than glad to work with your design idea. 

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SHOP LOCAL: SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL ECONOMY

Small Businesses Are Important To Our Community

It is our responsibility to support the community. We can't wait for the government to come help us. When people spend their money locally, most of it stays in that community. I hear a lot of people talking about how businesses in their town are going out of business, or how there isn't enough money in the town. It is your responsibility to spend your money in that town. The more you take care of your local businesses the more they take care of your town. Small business owners love to support the community they serve in. It is their duty to give back to the town they belong to. 
I'm not going to lie, we do shop at big box stores here and there, because a good deal is hard to pass when you're on a budget. But, no matter what deals we get at big box stores, we always make it a point to stop at locally owned businesses to purchase a few items. Take care of those small business so they could keep taking care of your community. Remember, it's never to early to teach your children to support local businesses. 

Stop Flushing Wipes Down The Toilet

Wipes Don't Belong In The Toilet

I have a giant problem with all these baby wipe companies still putting "flushable" and "sewer and septic safe" on their packages. Let me express to you how much we love baby wipes in our household. We have a child and a puppy who love to make messes all over the house. Not only are baby wipes great when we change his diaper. They are great to clean up his face, his hands, and where ever else he loves to get peanut butter/chocolate/jelly/cheese/etc. on himself.

It's simple, you grab a wipe and clean up the mess. Toss it in the garbage and it's done. Simple as that. Well, toilet paper and paper towel companies wanted to jump in on the baby wipe success. They are doing very well for themselves. They have created several types of bathroom "flushable" wipes. The only problem is these wipes ARE flushable, but will not dissolve. 

They sit in your pipes, get stuck on other stuff and clog up your pipes. Yes, it creates more jobs for plumbers but it's ruining our sewer pipes. How is it that they are allowed to print "flushable" and "sewer/septic safe" on their packages? Some of them are even printing "biodegradable". In their terms, yes they are biodegradable, but not for another 1000 years. 

Until someone does something about these companies printing "flushable" on wipes, please stop flushing wipes down the toilet. It will cost you hundreds, even thousands of dollars to fix. You should only flush toilet paper. 

What I Love To Use Baby Wipes On:

• When I change my baby's diaper.
• After my kid eats.
• My puppy's bum.
• When my husband spills food/drinks/whatever else he is eating on his clothes.
• The table.
• The floor.
• My kitchen cabinets.
• The make up off my face.
• When I get make up on my fingers.
• After I do my hair in the bathroom(it's so easy to pick up the hair off the floor).
• Cleaning inside the car.
• Cleaning leather seats. 
• Getting deodorant off of clothing.
• Wiping down shoes. 
• Wiping down exercise equipment.
• And the million other things that I wipe down with baby wipes. 

Maybe, I should look into buying stock in baby wipe companies. Moral of the story, baby wipes are amazing, just don't flush them down the toilet. 

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Are You Wasting Water?

Did you know that the average American household ends up wasting 10,000 gallons of water each year according to the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency)? That is enough water to do about 270 loads of laundry. If you think about that kind of average, across the country, household leaks could lead to more than 1 trillion gallons of water wasted. Take a breath, breathe that in, and let's take a look around where this mystery wasted water might be coming from.

You might be thinking that little faucet drip, or running toilet can't possibly add up to 10,000 gallons of water per year. If it's just the faucet, probably not - but how many faucets in your home are dripping? How many drips per minute? You could use the Mr. Rooter drip calculator to do a quick estimate. For example, a leaky faucet can easily waste 3,000 gallons of water per year. If your drip can fill an 8 ounce cup in one minute, that's over 32,000 gallons per year. We're pretty sure if you have a leak like that, you would have already called your local Mr. Rooter plumber, however many people might let a smaller leak go for months before finally trying to fix it themselves or giving us a call.

All of this wasted water, also equals wasted money - out of your pocket. The EPA's fact sheet also claims that 10% of homes waste 90 gallons or more of water per day (that would be that drip that fills the cup in one minute).

So where are you wasting water? Common areas where these little leaks spring up are faucets, shower heads, toilet flappers, and other household valves. Leaks are very common outdoors as well with any sprinkler or irrigation system (even the tiniest of cracks in your irrigation system can use more than 6,000 gallons of water per month) you might have set up for your garden or lawn. If you're unsure of a leak, the EPA recommends taking a look at the winter usage. If you have used more than 12,000 gallons of water per month for a family of four - you are exceeding during winter and it's likely your home has a leak somewhere. A much easier way to check water usage is check your water meter. Set a time when you are NOT going to use any water (flush the toilet, wash the dishes, or do some laundry). Check the meter before and after an allotted amount of time. If it changes, your house has a leak and you need to call your local plumber to help you find it.

So if you see that you have a leaky shower head (which can waste around 500 gallons per year), or maybe unexplained damp spot in your home - give us a call. While here in New York, we don't have the same drought problems as other areas, it doesn't mean we should waste water; or the money that you spend paying for that wasted water.

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